Raising Hope with the Rising Sun

According to various news reports, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee, may be working to prolong the F-22 production line, including enabling a potential export version. According to a New York Times report, F-22 supporters “took...

Zak Smacks Gates Guess

Dov Zakheim, a top Pentagon official in the Reagan and Bush II years, threw a major punch at SECDEF Bob Gates’s approach to force planning. Writing in the June issue of The American Spectator, Zakheim noted that Gates believes “there...

AOC for Africa Ops

Seventeenth Air Force (Air Forces Africa) activated its dedicated air and space operations center on May 29. The new center, the 617th AOC, is collocated with 17th AF headquarters at Ramstein AB, Germany. Now staffed with about 60 personnel, the...

No F-22s at Paris

By Michael C. Sirak
The Air Force has decided not to send its F-22 demonstration team to wow the crowds at this month’s Paris air show due to more pressing demands on the Raptor fleet, a service spokeswoman confirmed yesterday. First Lt. Georganne Schultz,...

Corona Top

The Air Force’s leadership will convene one of its tri-annual summits later this week, this time at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Lt. Col. Adrian Craig, spokeswoman for Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, told the Daily Report yesterday that this “Corona...

Global Hawk Damaged

An RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 20 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft assigned to Edwards AFB, Calif., made an emergency landing on Rogers Dry Lake bed, adjacent to the base, just after midnight on May 28 while on a local test flight, sustaining...

CMSAF Fest

CMSAF Rodney McKinley on May 26 joined with seven retired Chief Master Sergeants of the Air Force—plus the airman selected to succeed him—at Bolling AFB, D.C., for a dedication ceremony to honor the service’s highest enlisted position in the newly...

CHAMP Crowning

Boeing announced last month that the Air Force has chosen it to develop and test a missile that carries a nonlethal, high-power microwave payload that could neutralize specific types of targets from overhead without causing collateral damage. This work is...

Air Sorties from SWA

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMay 30-31, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 47 38 85 6,096 CAS/Armed Recon 49 152 201 14,729 Airlift 280 280 20,641 Air refueling 102 102 6,746 Total 668 48,212...