US Air Force begins KC-10A fleet retirementThe US Air Force (USAF) started retiring its fleet of McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender aerial...Pat Host, Washington, DCJane's Defence Weekly
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,Feb. 25, 2025/PRNewswire/ -- Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE:RTX) business, has been awarded a contract from Boeing Defense to provide 144 ACES II®ejection seats for the U.S. Air Force's F-15EX fleet...
US Air Force planning for future F-35 fleet management office The US Air Force (USAF) is in the early stages of planning for a fleet management office that would...Jane's Defence WeeklyPat Host, Washington, DC
Boeing isdevelopingone such CCA – the MQ-28 Ghost Bat – for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), which was also the inaugural E-7A operator. Six Wedgetails are in service with the RAAF, according to Cirium fleets data. South Korea and Turkey also operate the E-7A, ...
WASHINGTON — General Electric, Rolls-Royce, and Pratt & Whitney will compete for the chance to outfit theU.S. Air Force’s B-52 bomber fleetwith new engines, with a contract award projected for June 2021. The Air Force released a request for proposals for the B-52 Commercial Engin...
The additional carrying capacity of the F-15E also may have implications for the USAF’s efforts to replace its F-15C/D fleet with 144 examples of the upgraded F-15EX Eagle II. The service chose to buy the F-15EX, instead of the F-35, partly due to its weapons payload...
The US Air Force (USAF) fiscal 2023 budget, presented by its secretary Frank Kendall, was recently sent to Congress and brings important changes regarding the aircraft fleet. The USAF’s main plan is to have more F-15EX fighters while deactivating part of the F-22 Raptor. The advanced ...
T-7A Red Hawk will replace the Air Education and Training Command’s ageing T-38 Talon trainer aircraft fleet. Boeing T-X is an all-new advanced trainer aircraft. Image courtesy of Saab AB. The Boeing T-X aircraft, officially called the T-7A Red Hawk, is a new advanced training system...
The source added that removing the massive cannon from the plane’s left side would create an imbalance in the aircraft’s center of gravity, among other structural issues. The price tag to remove the weapon and fix the airframe across the fleet would likely be in the millions of dollars, ...
L3Harris Technologies has achieved a significant milestone as the United States Air Force successfully completed the first flight of its Viper Shield™, an advanced all-digital electronic warfare (EW) system designed to enhance the survivability of F-1