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The German government has welcomed Washington's announcement of a freeze on the reduction in US troops in Germany pending a Global Force Posture Review announced by President Joe Biden on 4 February. German government spokesman Steffen Seibe...

  Tony Pastore served his country in the Air Force during World War II and, again after the war, as a corporal. At 96 years of age, he is a pure gem of "The Greatest Generation" with a fabulous voice to boot.   Born in Pittsfield, he enlisted on March 23, 1943, and was sent to Fort Devens in Ayer. From there, he went to basic training in Miami Beach, Fla.      He was assigned to the New England Aircraft School in Boston, then was sent to Fort Banks in Winthrop, where he came down wi...

Why the Air Force is Cannibalizing an F-22 Squadron Fewer squadrons, but more planes per squad. Heres What You Need to Remember: But in cannibalizing the 95th Fighter Squadron, the Air Force reduces its overall squadron count to 311, down one compared to late 2018. The reduction runs counter to the flying branchs stated goal of expanding to 386 squadrons over the next decade or so, an expansion that could require the Air Force to buy hundreds of additional aircraft potentially costing tens of ...

F-35s Deploy to South Korea, Raising Questions About Fate of Seoul’s F-16s The U.S. military plans to begin rotating F-35 stealth fighters into South Korea starting in a few years. Heres What You Need to Remember: In 2018 the Trump administration suspended Vigilant Ace as a concession to North Korea, hoping that Pyongyang, in turn, would suspend its nuclear-weapons program. North Korea has continued to develop its nukes. The U.S. military plans to begin rotating F-35 stealth fighters into So...

Hearing ‘Sonic Booms’ unlikely as F-35 night-flying continues until April Hearing ‘Sonic Booms’ unlikely as F-35 night-flying continues until April and last updated 2021-02-03 23:25:52-05 OGDEN, Utah — Consistent with past night-flying operations out of Hill Air Force Base in the past, the 388 th Fighter Wing will continue to fly at night until early April. “We expect to be flying almost every weekday kind of now through April,” said Jonathan “Rev” H...

By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 3, 2021 F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters are flying, for the first time, alongside Japanese and Australian warplanes in a large-scale Pacific Air Forces’ exercise, which kicked off Wednesday on Guam. More than 1,800 U.S. airmen, Marines and sailors are training alongside 400 Japanese and Australian troops during Cope North, which runs through Feb. 19 out of Andersen Air Force Base, a PACAC statement said. Ninety-five aircraft from 23...

PACIFIC AIR FORCES / Published February 02, 2021 U.S. Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Royal Australian Air Force aircraft fly in formation during a photo exercise at COPE North 20, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 19, 2020. Exercise Cope North is an annual U.S. Pacific Air Forces tri-lateral field training exercise with participants from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Japan Air Self-Defense Force and the Royal Australian Air Force. The prima...

The exercise of being able to rapidly deploy a lot of stealth fighters sends a clear message. Key point: Rapid depoyment during a crisis or war makes a difference in victory. This is why the Air Force practices such exercises. On Nov. 19, 2018, two U.S. Air Force wings in Utah launched thirty-five F-35 stealth fighters in a short span of time. This article first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest. The air force lauded the display as evidence of Americas overwhelming ...

Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar pays tributes at National War Memorial ANI | Updated: Jan 31, 2021 11:58 IST He will succeed Air Marshal NS Dhillon, who will be superannuating todays event. Recently, the names of soldiers who lost their lives in the Galwan valley clash on June 15 last year have been engraved on the National War Memorial in New Delhi. 20 soldiers including Colonel Santosh Babu had lost their lives in a clash with Chinese troops in the Eastern Lada...

Here is how such a fight for air supremacy might play out. Key point: Both China and America are rivals that prepare and train for the worst. Here is how each of their planes and doctrines might stack up. The U.S. Air Force is rewriting its war plan for the Pacific, the flying branchs new commander for the region told reporters at the Pentagon in late November of 2018. Gen. Charles Brown, commander of Pacific Air Forces, said he wants smaller groups of U.S. warplanes to rapidly move between ba...