Blue Air Training will provide close air support training services to the Air Force under an Oct. 18, 2019 contract, largely using its A-90 Raider light-attack turboprop aircraft. Photo courtesy of Blue Air Training.? The Air Force is moving forward...
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An RQ-4 Global Hawk, assigned to the 319th Operations Group, Det. 1, Andersen AFB, Guam, lands at Yokota AB, Japan, Aug. 5, 2019, for a rotational deployment. The movement maintains operations for Global Hawks during months of inclement weather endured...
Airmen from the 92nd Maintenance Group prepare a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 916th Air Refueling Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., for aircrew to disembark at Fairchild AFB, Wash., Oct. 16, 2019. Air Force photo by Amn. Kiaundra Miller. The...
Syrian Democratic Forces commando cadets clear a room during urban operations training in Syria, Aug. 3, 2019. Army photo by Spc. Alec Dionne. The Pentagon is withdrawing most US troops across Syria as Turkey’s invasion across the border to fight...
An RQ-4 Global Hawk receives routine maintenance after being refueled June 12, 2019, at Grand Forks AFB, N.D. Air Force photo by SrA. Elora Martinez. JBSA-LACKLAND, TEXAS—The RQ-4 Global Hawk enterprise has more work ahead to grow into its new...
Capt. John Webber (l) of Civil Air Patrol's Indiana Wing provides instruction to Cadet Capt. Linus McFarland at CAP's National Emergency Services Academy. Civil Air Patrol photo. Civil Air Patrol is now using small drones to aid in search and...
The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle, completed its inaugural flight March 5, 2019, at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. Air Force photo by SrA. Joshua Hoskins. The XQ-58A Valkyrie experimental “wingman” drone was damaged upon landing...
A C-130 flown by airmen from the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing takes off from Canadian Forces Station Alert on Ellsmere Island, Nunavut, after dropping off supplies on Sept. 30, 2019. Courtesy photo via USAF. The New...
This map, produced by Civil Air Patrol’s National Cell Phone Forensics Team, helped guide searchers to a missing Colorado hiker on Sept. 30, 2019. Map image courtesy of CAP. The Air Force Rescue Coordination Center credited Civil Air Patrol search...