Operation Desert Storm began on Jan. 17, 1991, kicking off 25 years of continuous combat operations for the United States Air Force. Air Force Magazine is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the momentous air campaign with 25 pictures from Desert Storm.
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Lockheed Martin was awarded a $76 million contract to build Paveway II Plus laser-guided bomb kits, which will include guidance and tail assemblies for GBU-10 and GBU-12 bombs. Deliveries are slated to begin in the second quarter of 2016, according...
An upgraded AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile successfully foiled a decoy emitter and destroyed its intended radar target in a recent live-shot test at the Utah Test and Training Range, Raytheon announced. The HARM control section modification upgrade “improves the probability...
Members of the 427th Reconnaissance Squadron and 306th Intelligence Squadron arrive at Beale AFB, Calif., from Air Combat Command’s final MC-12W Liberty combat deployment, Oct. 13, 2015. Staff photo by Arie Church. Arie Church Oct. 19, 2015: Beale AFB, Calif.—MC-12W...
Air Force Space Command boss Gen. John Hyten declared initial operational capability for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency joint communication system on July 28, the service announced. AEHF satellites—the first of which launched in August 2010—provide 10 times more capability...
A military weather satellite cracked up Feb. 3 after the power system overheated causing it to spin out of control, Air Force Space Command officials told Air Force Magazine in a statement released March 3. The Joint Space Operations Center...
Lockheed Martin has integrated the propulsion core and payload module for the Air Force’s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communication satellite at its facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced the company on Monday. The milestone occurred nearly five months ahead of...
Air Force Space Command completed Advanced Extremely High Frequency military satellite communication system operational test and evaluation, paving the way for AEHF’s initial operational capability, officials announced. Once data from the six-month intensive evaluation is analyzed AFSPC “will decide whether...
The Air Force is eying Fiscal 2020 for the launch of the follow-on satellite that would replace the Space Based Space Surveillance Block 10 spacecraft operating? on orbit today, said Maj. Gen. Martin Whelan, the Air Staff’s space operations chief....