“Our wing has conducted, and participated in, a variety of exercises over the last year to ensure we are primed for large-scale missions such as this one,” Col. Ed. Sumangil, 7th Bomb Wing commander, said in an Air Force news release. “We’re excited to be bac...
A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, assigned to the 34th Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, waits on a taxiway at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, after arriving for a Bomber Task Force mission June 3, 2022. Bomber Task Force missions contribute to joint force lethality and deter ...
But if China sought to employ nuclear weapons at a threshold below strategic nuclear exchanges of ICBMs, H-6Ns might be employed to launch nuclear attacks, perhaps targeting bases in Guam and Hawaii, or carrier task forces at sea. As useful as the above capabilities are, the H-6 has ...
With this range, the JH-XX would still have the ability to challenge strategic type targets, such as U.S. military facilities in Japan and possibly even on Guam, as well as basesin India, the South China Sea and beyond. The design could prioritize speed, as we...
The B-2 bomber known as Spirit of Kansas had spent four months on the island territory of Guam. As part of U.S. Pacific Command’s Bomber Forward Presence mission, four B-2s had been deployed to Andersen Air Force Base as a deterrent to North Korea and China. For the four bomber ...
This will also allow it to carry out strikes against Japan, the East China Sea, American bases on Guam, and even Australia. How soon will we see this new bomber? China plays it pretty conservatively when it comes to announcing new military projects, so we can assume that if a public ...