USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz pilots the first HC-130J Combat King II personnel recovery aircraft to its home at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz.
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.