USAF F-16s fired 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions, successfully destroying a booby-trapped house in the vicinity of Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq, on Nov. 23. According to Central Command Air Forces, coalition forces discovered the house in a search of the area...

The first article we’ve seen that speculates on the victor of Cope India 2006 admittedly resorted to Web site blogs to find a prevailing view that the Indian Air Force Su-30s bested USAF F-16s. The report is found in the...

The Defense Science Board says the Global Positioning System constellation should grow to 30 satellites—to offset what it terms the “significant risk” posed by the current reconstitution and modernization plan. In a report released last week (but dated October 2005),...

City officials of Long Beach, Calif., are in Washington this week to lobby on behalf of the C-17, reports the Long Beach Report. Long Beach Mayor Beverly O’Neil and council members Frank Colonna and Tonia Reyes Uranga say that the...

Most of the talk on cutting the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program focuses on the US military’s plans for purchasing several variants of the aircraft. However, allied partners working alongside the US in the fighter’s development are getting antsy about...

Word is that the Administration may find big cuts—like the $32 billion proposed by Acting Defense Undersecretary Gordon England (DR 11/07/05)—to the defense budget hard to come by. If you hearken to a Bloomberg News Service report, it won’t be...

The US Air Force continued support of Pakistan earthquake relief efforts by airlifting more supplies to the northern region of the country. From Nov. 18-25, USAF provided two C-130 and two C-17 airlifters plus 13 contracted B-747s, delivering more than...

Some 90 airmen—all volunteers—recently graduated from the US Army’s interrogator school at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. USAF officials say the Army asked for help in filling shortages of skilled interrogators on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Air Force...

Situated in the CENTAF combined air operations center in Southwest Asia, the aerial port control center with its crew of 12 transport specialists operates around the clock, making about 2,000 passenger reservations and moving more than 3,000 pallets of cargo...

Air Education and Training Command just announced that the T-1A Jayhawk pilot training aircraft flew its one millionth safe flying hour on Oct. 27. AETC officials could not pinpoint the particular pilot or aircraft that crossed the milestone hour, because...

US Transportation Command has devised a “pallet sandwich” approach to moving military material around the globe, with the introduction of the Associate Intermodal Platform, an 82-inch by 10-inch by 8 inch rectangle of plastic that looks like a large burnt...

Pacific Air Forces is collecting gifts and presents for the 53rd installment of Operation Christmas Drop across the Pacific islands. Called the longest running, organization airdrop in the world by Stars and Stripes, the event is set to kick off...

Uzbekistan has told NATO and its allies that they can no longer use the Central Asian country’s territory or airspace to support operations in Afghanistan. The Uzbeks earlier kicked the US military out of Karshi-Khanabad Air Base—the Pentagon paid its...

As Uzbekistan’s autocrats have completed kicking out the US military and NATO allies, it has extended a warm reception to Russia’s military. Russian news agency Interfax reports that a Russian Air Force unit could be deployed to Karshi-Khanabad Air Base...

November 24-27, 2005 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 23 6 – 29 CAS/Armed Recon 185 72 – 257 Airlift – – 640 640 Air refueling – – 120 120 Total 208 78 760 1,046 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...