Anew major command to oversee all of the US Air Force's (USAF's) forces was activated at Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana, on 7 August.rnAir Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) will provide combat-ready forces to conduct strategic nuclear deterrence and global-strike operations in...
Raytheon received thecontractthrough the USAF Nuclear Weapons Centre to support the USAF’s Global Strike Command. The initial $134m contract for the three-year development project comes with options, which, when exercised, will take the cumulative value of the contract to $600m, according to in...
Meanwhile, Boeing’s recent delivery of the first operational F-15EX Eagle II marked a major milestone, being the first time in more than two decades it had turned over a new combat aircraft to the USAF. Its most recent previous shipment had been a final F-15E Strik...
USAF Latest videos from USAF [more]. DEFENSE.GOV NEWS Fort Liberty Becomes Fort Bragg, Renamed for Battle of Bulge Hero The new name for the largest installation in the Army honors Army Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a native of Maine, who enlisted in July 1943 at age 23. ...
"we have heard talk about hospital ships, fishery protection vessels and littoral strike support ships, but they are all at some point in the future. the orders themselves are uncertain, and it appears that no one is planning on the assumption that they will definitely be required, so fss ...
the move in its fiscal year 2015 budget submission. The service proposed retiring the fleet again in its 2016 submission, saying it doesn’t have the funds to keep the ageing aircraft going, and needs to free up maintainers to support the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter roll out...
Henry H. 'Hap' Arnold's vision of a global mission to the Global Strike Task Force and expeditionary air forces of the year 2001. It examines global power from its origins as Strategic Air Command built a fleet of bombers and tankers to meet the needs of the global nuclear-deterrent ...
USAF Colonel Parkinson took command of the then-classified GPS program in late 1972, leading an early and crucial stage of its design and implementation (Fig. 15). Now a recalled emeritus professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, Parkinson remains highly ...
Defense Dept./NASA X-51 program is the most critical element of this new weapons system concept. The Prompt Strike program is directly under former astronaut Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, who heads U.S. Strategic Command, the successor to the Strategic Air Command in the post-Cold War ...
The expansion is not expected to increase the total number of nuclear weapons assigned to the bomber force, but to broaden the infrastructure to “accommodate mission growth,” Air Force Global Strike Command Commander General Timothy Ray told Congress last year. ...