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Akima Secures Spot on U.S. Air Force Rotary Wing Maintenance Contract Consolidation IDIQ Share Article Akima Logistics Services will provide turnkey helicopter maintenance support services “This award demonstrates the confidence the Air Force continues to show in Akima as a trusted provider of aviation maintenance, logistics, and supply chain services,” said Scott Rauer, President of Akima’s Facilities Solutions Group. HERNDON, Va. (PRWEB) ...

2021-03-17T02:31:00+00:00 US Air Force (USAF) bombers are touching down in new places. In February, for the first time in history, the B-1B Lancer bomber landed in India. Then, in March, the supersonic jet deployed for the first time from a Norwegian air base. Just this week the variable-sweep bomber landed in Poland for the first time ever. Expect more surprise landings from the B-1B, Boeing B-52H Stratofortress and Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, said USAF General Timothy Ray, commander of Air...

The bomber is one of four temporarily based in Norway, where its exercising with NATO and Swedish air forces. A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber made history last week when it landed at a remote air base north of the Arctic Circle. The bomber, flying with an escort of four Swedish Gripen fighters, touched down at Norways Bodø Air Station for refueling before departing again. The layover marked the farthest north the B-1B has ever operated. ✈ The bomber, nicknamed " Dark Knight" of the 9th ...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 25, 2021 at 5:40 PM AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), Lockheed Martin image WASHINGTON: Global Strike Command Head Gen. Timothy Ray is eyeing a new hypersonic cruise missile for the B-52 bomber — the classified Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) now in development. “Certainly, we’re in the in the conversation for the HACM as that gets developed,” he told reporters today in the margins of the Air Force Association’s annual win...

  OPINION Some of life’s lessons you learn the hard way. It is always better that your education comes early in life. After all, foolishness and bad decisions you can put off on the inexperience and lack of worldliness of youth. Do the same thing at 50, you’re just an idiot. And so it was with me in 1972, as a 21-year-old Sergeant at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL. On a Friday night in March, nine friends - all Non-Commissioned Officers in the Air Force, Navy and Army - gathered o...