Moving Aussies: Two of the newly arrived C-17s at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, are on the wing—this time aiding the short-notice movement of Australian forces from the Solomon Islands to Australia, as the Aussies mobilized their forces to support international peace...

No Range, No Air Bases: If Asian news media accounts are true, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told South Korean defense officials during a meeting last fall that unless Seoul could provide suitable air training ranges, the US would remove its...

Brits Have Their Way, Partly: It looks like Tony Blair has sold George Bush on the prudence of letting the Pentagon and prime contractor Lockheed Martin share the keys to Joint Strike Fighter classified technology with Britain, the partner with...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley plans to reveal his choice of a name for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by June 30, according to the Dallas Morning News. Yet, Richard Whittle reports, that the name may not...

The Chinese F-10 fighter, which bears a strong resemblance to the USAF F-16 and especially the abandoned Israeli “Lavi” fighter of the 1980s, is apparently a better machine than the Pentagon first suspected. In its annual report to Congress on...

Reservist Hits Fighter Pilot Jackpot: Air Force Reserve Command has selected the first pilot from its ranks to train to fly the F-22A Raptor, the Air Force’s new stealth fighter. Maj. Randall Cason, an F-16 pilot, serving with 10th Air...

How to Put It All Together So It Makes Sense—Quickly: The Air Force plans to test a system to corral all the data from myriad sensor sources in near-real-time and turn it into useable data for warfighters—now not a week...

The Waiting Game: The 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard is waiting—like many ANG and Air Force Reserve Command units across the country—for the answer to the question: What really is an enclave and will there be...

Legal Eagles Eye Lawsuit Over Oceana: As soon as DOD announced that Virginia leaders had failed to meet BRAC criteria to keep NAS Oceana’s fighters at the Navy’s master jet base, state attorneys began reviewing options for a lawsuit, reports...

China and India have agreed to pursue military exchanges, according to various Asian news sources. (What must Pakistan be thinking?) That’s a more certain outcome than US defense officials have been able to achieve. Adm. William Fallon, head of US...

US European Command hosted a Russian delegation of officers from the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian General Staff at its Stuttgart, Germany, headquarters recently. It was the first of four scheduled meetings this year. This first of four...

A selection of 22 digitized collections of materials submitted to the Library of Congress by war veterans who served in military intelligence are now highlighted on the Veterans History Project Web site. “Military Intel: The Inside Story” is part of...

May 26-28, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 42 15 57 CAS/Armed Recon 114 73 187 Airlift 500 500 Air refueling 93 93 Total 156 88 607 682 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance