Brussels Defense Secretary Ash Carter laid out the United States’ contributions to NATO’s new rapid reaction forces during a meeting with reporters at the Alliance’s headquarters Thursday. The US will provide a host of intra theater and strategic airlift assets,...
Revitalization of the nuclear enterprise is really going to work this time because of the high-level attention it’s getting, Pentagon point man on the effort, Yisroel Brumer, told a House Armed Services Committee panel Thursday. Responding to a question from...
The Air Force’s entire bomber fleet will eventually be replaced by the Long-Range Strike Bomber, Maj. Gen. Richard Clark, 8th Air Force commander, told a House Armed Services Committee panel Thursday. The LRS-B “will be the long-range bomber” once the...
An Iraqi Air Force F-16 assigned to the Arizona National Guard’s 162nd Fighter Wing for foreign pilot training crashed near Douglas, Ariz., on the state’s southern border, during a Thursday night training sortie, reported The Arizona Republic. The jet crashed...
The Republican approach of making up sequester-driven funding shortfalls largely through overseas contingency operations funding doesn’t really work for the nuclear enterprise, the Pentagon’s nuclear re-invigoration guru said Thursday. Yisroel Brumer, of the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation shop,...
Maj. Gen. Jack Weinstein, commander of 20th Air Force, told House legislators that appropriators who cut a new helicopter from his budget are worsening a bad situation. “These are 1960s, 1970s helicopters,” he told a House Armed Services panel Thursday...
Brussels NATO will expand non-lethal assistance to Ukraine and improve assistance in areas such as command and control and capacity building, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters following a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission on June 25. The Alliance vowed...
Brussels NATO defense ministers on June 24 approved six forward integration headquarters on the Alliance’s eastern border to aid the movement and deployment of rapid reaction forces. The 40-person headquarters, called “NATO Force Integration Units,” or NFIUs, will be based...
Maj. Gen. James Hecker pinned on a second star to take command of 19th Air Force during a ceremony at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, on June 23, announced Air Education and Training Command. Hecker fills a void left when the previous commander,...
An F-35B Lightning II recently commenced “ski-jump” trials to validate the jet’s capability to operate from the Royal Navy’s non-catapult equipped Queen Elizabeth II class carriers, Royal Navy officials announced. “As is usually the case, the jet performed as expected...