The Smoky Mountain Innovative Readiness Training exercise takes place in North Carolina, July 31 to August 13. The IRT program meets training requirements for active, reserve and National Guard members and units while addressing public and society needs.
The B-52 is a long-range, heavy bomber that can perform a variety of missions. The bomber is capable of flying at high subsonic speeds at altitudes up to 50,000 feet (15,166.6 meters). It can carry nuclear or precision guided conventional ordnance with worldwide precision navigation capability.
Assigned Units:
2nd Bomb Wing / Barksdale AFB, La.
5th BW / Minot AFB, N.D.
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The B-2 Spirit is a multi-role bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. A dramatic leap forward in technology, the bomber represents a major milestone in the U.S. bomber modernization program. The B-2 brings massive firepower to bear, in a short time, anywhere on the globe through previously impenetrable defenses.
Assigned Units:
509th BW / Whiteman AFB,...
Carrying the largest conventional payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the Air Force inventory, the multi-mission B-1 is the backbone of America's long-range bomber force. It can rapidly deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against any adversary, anywhere in the world, at any time.
Assigned units:
7th BW / Dyess AFB, Texas
28th BW / Ellsworth AFB,...
PANAMAX 2017 is a U.S.-sponsored, multinational annual exercise that provides training opportunities for nations to work together and build the capability to plan and conduct complex multinational operations. The scenario involves security and stability operations supporting United Nations Security Resolution to ensure free flow of commerce through the Panama Canal.
The Air Force is pursuing a multi-phase Light Attack Experimentation Campaign which grew out of our Close Air Support Experimentation Campaign. The Air Force Materiel Command’s Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office leads this Campaign.
Air Force personnel are flying participant-provided, experiment-suitable aircraft in scenarios designed to highlight...
Vigilant Guard is a series of federally funded disaster-response drills conducted by National Guard units working with federal, state and local emergency management agencies and first responders.
Joint Task Force Port Opening (JTF-PO) exercise in which we rapidly respond to either an Humanitarian Aid/Disaster Response (HA/DR) type mission in an austere environment. Our mission is to rapidly respond to the AO and conduct operations to receive and begin initial theater distribution of that cargo.
