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Fighter wings try a fresh approach to combat maintenance 4 hours ago Airman 1st Class Donald Brudnowski, 55th Fighter Generation Squadron crew chief, performs a pre-flight inspection on an F-16 Viper at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, in July 2020. The newly reorganized 55th FGS broke its own record of 1757 sorties without a cancellation due to maintenance issues. (Airman 1st Class Destani Matheny/Air Force) Two Air Force fighter jet wings are the first to try a new approach to mainte...

By   Lockheed Martin on March 15, 2021 at 8:42 AM U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw Senior U.S. Air Force leaders recently reemphasized their support for the F-35, calling the 5th Generation fighter the “cornerstone” of the Air Force’s tactical capability. The remarks were intended to clarify recent erroneous media coverage claiming that the “Air Force has admitted the F-35 program has failed.” During a Feb. 25 news conference at the Air Force Association’s Aerospace Warfar...

11 U.S. Air Force personnel assigned to the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and 77th Fighter Generation Squadron trained with the U.S. Army and Royal Saudi Air Force to execute the joint force and partner nation exercise Desert Mirage II, Jan. 19-20, 2020. The two-day exercise deployed U.S. Air Force aircraft assigned to the 378th, 332nd and 379th Air Expeditionary Wings, RSAF’s 7th Flying Wing and assets from the U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regimen...