Basing the F-35 at Lakenheath brings 5th Gen lethality and survivability against emerging high-end threats to the AOR. The F-35 will build long-lasting bonds through training and exercises with the nine other partner nations flying the F-35, including the U.K., our closest ally and a vital partner in the F-35 Program.
Agility Prime is a collaborative initiative led by the Air Force Research Lab to create revolutionary military acquisition and airpower concepts by accelerating the growth of the commercial transformative vertical flight market. In 2021, the AETC/CC directed the stand up of Det. 62, with the vision that by 2023, the detachment will develop initial skills training for electric vertical takeoff...
The F-15EX Eagle II provides a unique opportunity for the test enterprise as it is the first Air Force aircraft to be completely tested and fielded through combined developmental and operational test efforts. Capabilities that the F-15EX adds to the F-15C are its fly-by-wire system; two extra weapon stations, and an updated cockpit with touch-screen color displays; EPAWSS and advanced radar...
The E-11A is a modified Bombardier Global Express 6000/BD-700-1A10 business jet equipped with specialized communications relay equipment to translate between tactical comm and data links. It provides joint range extension, BLOS C2, and Internet protocol-based data transfer between dissimilar systems. E-11A was fielded to meet an urgent operational need for BLOS relay between ground troops and...
The 23d Wing and 347th Rescue Group leadership received the Air Force’s first two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters. The delivery of the new model is significant to the personnel recovery mission as it begins the transition from the predecessor, the HH-60G Pave Hawk, which has been flown for more than 26 years.
CMA maintains destruction technology and personnel expertise to destroy recovered chemical warfare materiel around the country in support of and in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. is the first ship named in honor of Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen Jr., the first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps officer promoted to brigadier general. When he retired in 1988 after 38 years of service, he was, by date of designation, the senior-ranking aviator in the Marine Corps and the United...
An M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank powers up a concrete slope on the side of a hill in the Yuma Proving Ground desert. Testing military equipment in realistic environmental conditions ensures systems function as advertised when used in the real world.
