The Defense Department on Thursday announced plans to close RAF Mildenhall, England, and return it, along with 14 other sites across Europe, back to their host nations under the European Infrastructure Consolidation plan. The base is currently home to 15...
The Air Force will base the first European F-35As at RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, officials announced Thursday. The aircraft will arrive in phases beginning in 2020. Eventually a total of 48 F-35As will be based at Lakenheath, assigned to two...
The Defense Department plans to return a total of 15 sites, located in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and Portugal, back to their host nations under the newly released European Infrastructure Consolidation plan, according to a Jan....
The wide-scale changes to US bases in Europe could open the door to another round of domestic base realignment and closure here in the United States, officials told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday. The European Infrastructure Consolidation review launched...
A turbocharger failure doomed an MQ-1B remotely piloted aircraft, which crashed due to severe turbulence as it lost altitude in the mountains of Afghanistan last spring, Air Combat Command investigators determined. The RPA lost power as the operator at Creech...
The RQ-4 Global Hawk fleet recently set a weekly flying hour record surpassing 781 combined flight hours in a single week, Northrop Grumman officials announced on Jan. 7. “The 2014 fiscal year was the most active yet for the Global...
Turkey is upping its initial F-35 buy from two airframes to six, the country’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced earlier this week. “It is planned that Turkey will buy 100 F-35 warplanes in the project,” Davatoglu said, quoted by Reuters...
Air advisors certified Afghan airmen with the Kabul Air Wing in Fly Away Security Team tactics for the first time to permit the Afghan Air Force to operate more autonomously. “This new skill set enables them to conduct both aerial...