Air Force Pacific Command News Today

Dr. Charles Burchell will be honored at ECU’s Evening of Honors and Recognition as a Distinguished Alumnus.

In a new solicitation, the Air Force states it could put a company under contract in fiscal 2023 to make the first two prototype E-3 replacement airplanes.

The Rapid Raptor program is designed to ensure that at least four F-22 jets can attack anywhere on an urgent, fast-strike basis across the globe with ready crew, C-17 Globemaster III support, and fuel and weapons.

Placing an F-22 jet potentially three hundred miles closer to a point of attack, as was done in this exercise, decreases the potential need for refueling, massively decreases time to attack.