The F-15’s new electronic warfare system—the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System—has completed operational testing and is ready for full-rate production, with deployment starting this year an operational capability set for 2025.
The F-15EX shot one JASSM during a recent exercise, bringing to a close the first phase of its hybrid/combined initial operational and developmental test effort. New aircraft are to be delivered in the coming weeks, and a full-rate production decision is expected soon after.
The Air Force’s newest tanker has tested one of its other key missions —aeromedical evacuation. On July 10, a KC-46 and Airmen from the 931st Air Refueling Squadron and the 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron flew six sorties during a 17-hour mission across four bases to ...
The Air Force has officially delayed the KC-46’s full-rate production decision milestone until 2024 as the next-generation tanker works through problems plaguing its Remote Vision System, the service announced June 8. The Air Force and the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation decided the ...
Full-rate production may slip a little further as initial operational test and evaluation and the integration of the F-35 into a virtual wargaming environment play out, program executive officer Lt. Gen. Eric Fick said March 4. Granting Lockheed Martin's pitch to get a Performance-Based Logistics ...
Lt. Gen. L. Scott Rice, left, director of the Air National Guard, and his son Capt. Lee Rice, right, a pilot assigned to the 157th Air Refueling Wing, Pease ANGB, N.H., fly a KC-46A Pegasus Aug. 8, 2019. Air National...