Retired Lt. Col. Robert Hite, one of the last surviving Doolittle Tokyo Raiders, died at his home in Nashville, Tenn., on March 29. He was 95. Hite was the co-pilot on plane 16, dubbed “Bat Out of Hell,” during the...
The 582nd Helicopter Group—the first helicopter group in the Air Force—officially stood up March 27 during a ceremony at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo., according to a base release. The group will take over the 37th, 40th, and 54th Helicopter Squadrons,...
The Air Force is two months from deciding how to meet an urgent US Northern Command request for F-16s fitted with active electronically scanned array radars, USAF leaders told Congress March 26. AESA radars are needed to track “small cross-section...
A dozen Florida Air National Guard F-15Cs and around 200 Air Guardsmen from the 125th Fighter Wing deployed as part of the second European theater security package sent to the continent, marking the ANG’s first TSP deployment in support of...
Air Force missileers conducted an exceptional second unarmed Minuteman III operational test launch in less than a week from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., March 27, Air Force Global Strike Command announced. “These launches are a visible reminder to both our adversaries...
The Senate recently confirmed Gen. Robin Rand to be the first four-star commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, according to a March 27 internal Air Force memo. Rand, a command pilot with more than 5,000 hours in the F-16,...
Canada has proposed an extension and expansion of its military deployment to support anti-ISIS combat operations in Iraq and Syria through March 2016. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper does not require the House of Commons to authorize the combat mission,...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sees both threats and opportunities to US security in the rapid pace of global technological development, according to its biennial vision report, released March 26. “The world is experiencing some deeply disturbing technical, economic,...
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Pentagon March 26, discussing a range of security challenges shared by the US and the transatlantic Alliance. Specifically, Carter and Stoltenberg addressed NATO’s commitment to the...
