F-15Es, working with a B-1B bomber, used 500-pound and 2,000-pound joint direct attack munitions to take out enemy combatants, including an outpost, in Nagalam, Afghanistan on June 8, Air Forces Central said in a June 9 release. Also in Afghanistan on that day, an F-15E dropped a 500-pound laser-guided bomb on enemy combatants in Musa-Qala, and a second Strike Eagle destroyed enemy rocket teams in Orgun-E with a 500-pound JDAM and a 2,000-pound JDAM. In all, coalition aircraft flew 58 close air support missions June 8 in Afghanistan and 22 in Iraq, AFCENT said.
Sierra Nevada Corp. has acquired five ex-Korean Air 747-8 jumbo jets on which it will host the Survivable Airborne Operations Center. The jets will be transferred next year and will serve as the platforms for the SAOC, the $13 billion contract for which SNC won last month. The jets were…