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By 1st Lt Savanah Bray, 53d Wing / Published April 29, 2021 An F-15EX Eagle II from the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron, 53rd Wing, takes flight for the first time out of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., April 26, 2021, prior to departure for Northern Edge 2021. The F-15EX brings next-generation combat technology to a highly successful fighter airframe that is capable of projecting power across multiple domains for the Joint Force. (U.S Air Force photo by 1st Lt Savanah Bray) F-35...

1 Lt. Col. Dierk Seifert assumed command of the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Detachment 2 from Lt. Col. Jerome Thomas during assumption change of command ceremony at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, April 30. Lt. Col. Carly Sims, commander 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida, presided over the ceremony. As the commander, Lt. Col. Seifert will lead a 21-member detachment that provides persistent Air Combat Command warfighter expertise in E-8C Joint...

5 More than 25 aircraft, and hundreds of Airmen, from across the 53rd Wing are headed to Alaska in support of Northern Edge 21, INDOPACOM’s premier bi-annual exercise designed to increase joint combat effectiveness in all spectrums of warfare, May 3-14, 2021. Though Northern Edge provides an elite training venue for the Combat Air Forces, for the 53rd Wing, Northern Edge is an opportunity to test software, hardware and tactics in a unique and complex environment for fighter, ...

35 Six F-15E Strike Eagles landed here with a modified munitions configuration on Apr. 25, 2021, as part of an Agile Combat Employment operation in the U.S. Central Command theater. The 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron executed the first combat tactical ferry mission for the F-15E platform, enabling the six-ship to carry double their standard munitions load. “These F-15Es are carrying what is called a ‘tac-ferry’ load out. What that means is we can maneuver using Agile...

By Craig Hoyle2021-04-26T10:32:00+01:00 The US Air Force’s second Boeing F-15EX Eagle II fighter arrived at Eglin AFB in Florida on 20 April, ahead of the service launching operational test and evaluation work on the new model. Source: US Air Force Second test aircraft arrived at Eglin AFB on 20 April Boeing notes that the aircraft’s transfer from its St Louis final assembly line in Missouri was “earlier than the contract requirement”. A first example had arrived at Eglin AFB in March...

And Then There Were Two: Second F-15EX Arrives at Eglin AFB for Testing The F-15EX Eagle II, the Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft, arrives at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., March 11, 2021. (U.S. Air Force/Ilka Cole) 24 Apr 2021 EGLIN AFB — Well, that didnt take long, did it? Just five weeks after the first F-15EX Eagle II fighter jet touched down at Eglin Air Force Base — and less than two weeks after that F-15EX was officially unveiled to the public — the second of the new fighter airc...

The second F-15EX is now set for months of operational testing with the squadron before it is more widely fielded into military service. Operational testing involves placing an aircraft in a "combat relevant" environment to determine whether it performs as expected. The first F-15EX, which touched down at the base March 11, is assigned to the 40th Flight Test Squadron, part of the Eglin-headquartered 96th Test Wing, the installations host unit. F-15EX "001" was unveiled at an April 7 ceremony...

USNI News Home » Budget Industry » Fleet Exercise Includes Live Missile Shoot as Navy Pairs Crews With Unmanned Systems  Fleet Exercise Includes Live Missile Shoot as Navy Pairs Crews With Unmanned Systems  April 20, 2021 10:02 PM Medium displacement unmanned surface vessels Seahawk, front, and Sea Hunter launch for the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem 21 (UxS IBP 21), April 20, 2021. US Navy Photo SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Off the southern California coast this...

Marine V-22 Osprey Makes First Landing on Navy Hospital Ship Sailors aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy’s (T-AH 19) fuel an MV-22B Osprey on the ship’s flight deck for the first time. (MC3 Jake Greenberg/U.S. Navy) 19 Apr 2021 The hospital ship Mercy just welcomed the tiltrotor aircraft that will serve as the Navys next carrier delivery platform onto its deck for the first time. The Navy last week began flight deck tests with the V-22 Osprey off the coast of Southern California, marking the fi...

For the first time ever, Air Force personnel livestreamed F-35 Lightning II data directly from the aircraft’s mission systems computers to a connected computer tablet during a recent ground test at The event was a milestone for the Fighter Optimization eXperiment, or FoX, a project that seeks to rapidly integrate advanced software and hardware technologies to maximize the F-35’s lethality and survivability, while creating an agile development test tool and fielded combat multiplier for al...