SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The crash of an F/A-18C jet at Naval Air Station Fallon in which a San Diego-based Marine pilot safely ejected Saturday was under investigation Monday. The crash near the western Nevada "TOPGUN" airfield occurred about 3:15 p.m. during training, and the pilot was released from a lo...
Aircraft exit bases in expectation of Isaac Military bases in the Gulf of Mexico region are getting ready for Tropical Storm Isaac, which is expected to make landfall early Wednesday near New Orleans as a hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. The F-35 fighters remain based at Eglin ...
McCain Eyes C-27Js to Fight Fires: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member, introduced legislation that would transfer 14 of the C-27J transports that the Air Force wants to divest to the US Forest Service for use as dedicated aerial firefighting assets. "The Fores...
Arizona's Luke lands F-35 training mission The Associated Press Posted : Wednesday Aug 1, 2012 15:58:02 EDT GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Department of Defense has chosen Luke Air Force Base in Glendale for the new pilot training center for the F-35 fighter jets, city officials announced Wednesday. The 71-y...
More Details on "Nyet Flag": Russian news reports—and other news outlets that picked up the story last week—claiming that Russia would send fighters to an upcoming Red Flag exercise are "a complete fabrication," said Air Force spokeswoman Jennifer Cassidy. Russia was indeed supposed to send "working...
No Krasni Flag: Russia won't be participating in an Air Force Red Flag exercise this year, according to an exercise spokesman at Eielson AFB, Alaska. What? Russia at Red Flag? Several media outlets—including the Voice of Russia radio network's English-language website—ran stories last week suggestin...
Heading to AMARG next week does any one have any tips for shooting from the bus? Last time I went the tour was on the old AF bus and the windows went down. I believe the bus tour now the windows don't go down
WASHINGTON: A Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey crashed in Morocco on Wednesday, killing two U.S. military personnel. Neither the cause nor circumstances of the accident were immediately available. Wire services quoting U.S. embassy spokesman Rodney D. Ford called the dead "soldiers" but military sources to...
Any one have any information on the WTI 2-12 exercise? I saw a report it was suppose to go on from end of March to May. But I haven't seen any reports as of yet?