Program slashes maintenance time for the B-2 fleet

Posted at: Tue Apr 18th, 2006

4/17/2006 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- A critical material scale-up problem that directly affected the operational maintainability of the Air Force's B-2 Spirit fleet has been solved, thanks to engineers from the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, working with the B-2 Syst...

US-Backed Coalition Probes Possible Civilian Friendly Fire Deaths in Afghanistan

Posted at: Tue Apr 18th, 2006

U.S.-backed coalition forces in Afghanistan are investigating two cases in which civilians and Afghan security forces may have been killed by friendly fire during combat operations targeting Taleban insurgents. U.S. military officials say they are taking both cases extremely seriously...

The F-22 Raptor is said to be invisible...until it isn't

Posted at: Tue Apr 18th, 2006

It was the most impressive fighter aircraft seen to date.Designed around a breakthrough technology, it was heavily armed with the latest air-to-air weapons and was capable of flying faster than its enemies and destroying previously invulnerable enemy aircraft.

JSF delay could trigger series of after-shocks

Posted at: Tue Apr 18th, 2006

The US Air Force's (USAF's) senior officer is warning that a repeat of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's costly development crisis of two years ago could trigger a wave of after-shocks in other fighter programmes. USAF Chief of Staff General T Michael Moseley, speaking to reporters on ...