Farnborough, UK After 15 years, Pratt & Whitney is about to complete System Design and Demonstration of the F135 engine, which powers the F-35 family of fighters, company military engines president Bennett Croswell said Tuesday. “Development ends this month …...
An international tribunal dismissed every foundation of China’s aggressive claims to sovereignty over virtually all of the South China Sea, ruling July 12 that none of the disputed rocks and reefs were habitable islands that could produce legal territorial rights...
A White House official said the international tribunal’s sweeping July 12 ruling against China’s claims to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea would reinforce the historic US policy of promoting the international rule of law and peaceful resolution...
Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy assumed command of Pacific Air Forces on Tuesday during a ceremony at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. O’Shaughnessy was confirmed and received his fourth star on June 29. He replaced Lt. Gen. Russell Handy who was appointed as...
An airman’s failure to see and avoid a lower jumper during an August 2015 training jump at Eglin AFB, Fla., caused a head-to-head collision that killed the two special tactics airmen assigned to the 720th Operations Support Squadron, Air Force...
US aircraft are targeting the Taliban in Afghanistan “almost daily” following a recent expansion of the authority to hit the group, the top US commander in country said. Army Gen. John Nicholson, commander of Resolute Support Mission and US Forces...
The Air Force Reserve’s 440th Airlift Wing has flown its last C-130 Hercules out of Pope Field, N.C., marking the end of the flying service of an historic unit that traces its roots to the drop of 101st Airborne Division...
Russia has confirmed one of its helicopters was shot down last week by ISIS fighters in the Syrian city of Palmyra. The Russian state-owned TASS News Agency reported a Syrian Mi-25 crashed July 8 when it was hit by “gunfire...
An entry in the July 12 Daily Report confused the Air Force’s Advanced Engine Technology Program and Pratt & Whitney’s own F135 engine improvement program. Pratt’s Block 1 upgrade is expected to deliver a 7-10 percent increase in efficiency over...
