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Misawa Air Base
A B-1B Lancer flew a 30-hour flight to train alongside USAF and Japanese fighters on April 22, the first bomber sortie in the Pacific since the Air Force ended the continuous bomber presence mission on April 17. The B-1, from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., ...
An F-16 pilot mistakenly dropped an inert bomb on private property near Misawa Air Base, Japan, in November because of a failure of communication, according to a recently released Pacific Air Forces investigation into the incident. On Nov. 6, 2019, an F-16 with the 14th ...
Japan’s Draughon Range is now among the most sophisticated training areas in the world.
The 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa Air Base, Japan, recently completed an Agile Combat Employment exercise to test whether small teams of Airmen can quickly deploy and operate in austere locations. In order to work, Airmen can no longer focus on a single Air Force ...
USAF and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force are taking bilateral interoperability to the next level with joint F-35 training.
The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer and several aerospace corporations have pulled out of the Singapore Air Show as concerns about the new coronavirus spread, though U.S. Air Force demonstration teams, airmen, and other aircraft will still attend. Multiple companies, including Gulfstream and Textron Aviation from ...
Maintainers from Hill AFB, Utah, recently traveled to Japan for an F-35 maintenance symposium designed to increase interoperability at every level. Eight airmen from the 388th Maintenance Group worked with a Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35 maintenance squadron, first discussing lessons learned and then working ...
With an average snowfall of 150 inches per year over the last seven years, civil engineers at Misawa AB, Japan, stay busy with 24-hour operations during the snow season, priding themselves on keeping the airfield open regardless of weather conditions. “We have the largest snow ...
