Members of the 960th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron recently returned to their home station at Tinker AFB, Okla., after spending more than a month participating in Operation Coronet Connie in Southwest Asia. The E-3 AWACS unit joined other US airmen to train and fly with airmen from France, Jordan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and United Kingdom. It was the first time for a USAF E-3 unit to take part in Coronet Connie, which started in 2004 with just two countries. Maj. Tim Hart told the Tinker Take Off that the exercise enabled the E-3 airmen to “reassess our assumptions about how other nations employ various weapon systems.”
The first flight of the secretive B-21 bomber has slipped to mid-2022, but the program is moving along well, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office director Randall Walden said in an exclusive interview. The second copy of the B-21, which will be used for structural testing, is now on the production…