美国空军创新地使用了自己的货物运输机,将其转变成了装载有隐身巡航导弹的战斗飞机,这些导弹能够在陆地上和海洋上远远距离内发射并打击多个目标。这一战略性的改变基于称为“快速龙”的货架弹药系统(Palletized Munition System),该系统利用洛马公司的AGM-158联合空中
White House national security spokesman John Kirby said planes can move aid more quickly than trucks, but in terms of volume, airdrops are only "a supplement to - not a replacement for - moving things in by ground". "There are few military operations that are more complicated than hu...
On Saturday night, the U.S. military conducted its third drop of emergency supplies to the refugees trapped on Mount Sinjar, Central Command said. It said a C-17 military transport plane and two C-130 cargo planes, supported by fighter aircraft, dropped a total of 3,804 gallons of fresh ...
But U.S. military cargo planes continued their runs into the airport Sunday, ahead of a Tuesday deadline set by President Joe Biden to withdraw all American troops. Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said the U.S. has the capacity to evacuate the estimated 300 Americans who...
Russia was behind plot to hide explosive devices on cargo planes: US official Two incendiary devices, shipped via DHL, were part of a scheme to start fires aboard aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada, a senior official said. The Kremlin dismissed allegations as "incoherent."...
There are very few planes in military and aviation history that have garnered as much attention or popularity as the Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress”. The aircraft has been called by some “the best bomber of the Second World War”, although there are other contenders for that title. ...
But while Zelenskyy has urged against panic that he fears could undermine Ukraine’s economy, he and his civilian and military leaders also are preparing defenses, soliciting and receiving a flow of arms from the U.S. and other NATO members. A military cargo aircraft carrying U.S.-m...
a day after withdrawing from a U.N.-backed deal that allowed Kyiv to export grain from war-torn Ukraine. and today Russia announced it will consider all ships traveling to Ukraine ports as potential carriers of military cargo. This move has raised concerns about escalating food prices and pote...
BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- US cargo planes carrying parts of Patriot missiles have landed at Incirlik airbase in Turkey. The surface-to-air missiles are to be deployed to protect the country from any spillover of Syria’s civil war. ...
The military has been taking inventory, deciding what is shipped back to the US, what is handed to the Afghan security forces, and what is to be sold as junk in Afghanistan's markets. In recent weeks, the military has been flying out equipment on massive C-17 cargo planes. ...