No initial widespread damage was reported from Kadena AB, Japan, shortly after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck in the vicinity, Air Force officials said Friday. The earthquake struck the ocean floor about 50 miles east-southeast of Okinawa at 5:31 a.m. Saturday, local time. An alert was issued for a tsunami of up to three feet. An Air Force spokesman said there were “no reports of any significant damage,” but the event had taken place just 20 minutes earlier and reports “are continuing to come in.”. Kadena is the Air Force’s largest base in the Pacific, hosting F-15s, E-3 AWACS, RC-135 Rivet Joints, KC-135 tankers, and various special mission aircraft, and serves as a transient base for nearly all USAF traffic in the south Asia region.
The F-47 fighter will be run differently than previous fighter programs and share the same mission systems architecture as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin told the Senate Armed Services Committee. That means advances in one will fuel advances in the other.