CENTAF releases airpower summary for Aug. 24

Posted at: Thu Aug 24th, 2006

SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Aug. 24. In Afghanistan Aug. 23, Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt IIs provided close-air support for coalition troops taking small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire from Taliban ex...

Hill rolls out Warthogs

Posted at: Thu Aug 24th, 2006

With a name like Warthog, you would think the modifications being made on the A-10 precision engagement aircraft would be external. While the plane received its nickname for its rugged looking exterior, all talk at the 508th Aircraft Sustainment Wing Friday concerned what is happening inside ...

Team Hill unveils first squadron of upgraded F-16s

Posted at: Thu Aug 24th, 2006

From the depot of the Ogden Air Logistics Center to the tarmac of the 388th Fighter Wing, the first squadron of Common Configuration Implementation Program Block 40 F-16s was declared war-ready here Monday thanks to members of Team Hill.

Saudis' Typhoon order secures 3,000 BAE jobs

Posted at: Thu Aug 24th, 2006

SOME 3,000 jobs at BAE Systems' Warton and Samlesbury aircraft plants have been secured for well into the next decade following the agreement between the UK and Saudi Arabian governments to replace the latter's ageing fleet of Tornado fighters with Lancashire-built Typhoons.

F135 Program Cleared for Installed Ground Engine Runs and Taxi Testing

Posted at: Thu Aug 24th, 2006

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 24 - The U.S. Government's Joint Strike Fighter Program Office has cleared Pratt & Whitney's F135 engine program to begin installed ground engine runs and taxi testing for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II.

Raytheon Makes Early Delivery of P-8A Radar Mission Systems Integration Lab

Posted at: Thu Aug 24th, 2006

MCKINNEY, Texas, Aug. 23, 2006 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company has made early delivery of a radar Mission Systems Integration Laboratory (MSIL) to Boeing for the Navy's P-8A MMA (Multi-mission Maritime Air...

Lockheed Martin to cut 300 jobs

Posted at: Thu Aug 24th, 2006

Now that much of the design work on the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet has been completed, Lockheed Martin has begun to lay off some of the engineers and other technical workers assigned to the development program.