Russia’s aggression and eventual invasion of Ukraine added new complexities to the AOC’s typical work. On top of the U.S. Air Force’s usual air policing flights and routine training in Europe, airmen at the ops center had to juggle a higher volume of air and missile d...
Gainey didn’t offer details of how such an integration might work. However, his comments about U.S. interest in Ukraine’s acoustic detection network echoed sentiments expressed last week by the general who leads U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), Air Forces Africa (AFA...
In both Morocco and Tunisia, Airbus suppliers and Airbus subsidiary Airbus Atlantic (previously known as STELIA Aerospace) utilise a highly skilled workforce while taking advantage of the proximity to Europe to source a mix of machined composite, electrical and assembled components across all Airbus pr...
Anew terminal brought new possibilities. One of them allowed for changes to Icelandair's flight network. The company had operated two systems built on the old routes: to Europe, and between Luxembourg and the USA. A new system was introduced in 1987 that made Keflavík the hub of a network...
This plan would see bombers raid targets that were vital to the German aviation industry in order to achieve air supremacy over Western Europe before an invasion of the continent. While losses for these raids were still extremely high, it was hoped that dispatching a larger force capable of ...
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Air Force Gen. James Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe and Africa, said that the Russian jet’s actions “nearly caused both aircraft to crash.” Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the collision likely also damaged the Russian fighter jet, but the Su-27 was able to...
and Western Europe. In thePacific theatre, the 5th, 7th, and 13th air forces joined with the Army and Navy in the series of islandconqueststhat were steppingstones to the conquest of Japan. On the Asian mainland, the 10th Air Force in the China-Burma-India theatre and the 14th in China...
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Germany hosts the Ramstein Air Base, just outside Kaiserslautern in the southwest, which is home to the USAF’s Europe and Africa Commands. Meanwhile, Japan’s Kadena Air Base at Okinawa hosts the 18th Wing, the USAF’s largest combat wing. The fourth-largest deployment, after the U.K....