A brace of B-2 stealth bombers is back on Guam after a long absence, and that’s exactly why they’re there, Air Force Global Strike Command chief Lt. Gen. James Kowalski told defense reporters in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. “It’s been a long break” since two B-2 accidents on Guam—which resulted in one airplane destroyed in 2008 and one heavily damaged in 2010—and Kowalski said it’s time to get B-2 pilots back up to speed on operating in the Pacific. “We wanted to get healthy again” after the accidents, and allow time for the B-2 Radar Modernization Program to refit on most of the aircraft before resuming the Guam deployments, he said during the Feb. 6 roundtable. The crews and aircraft will rotate in and out for training periods lasting up to several weeks.
Boeing has completed initial flight testing on its redesigned Remote Vision System for the KC-46 tanker, the defense giant announced June 4. The new system, dubbed RVS 2.0, is meant to replace the original camera and video system boom operators use to refuel other aircraft, which has faced issues for…