December 14, 2016 - Air Force Magazine

Coalition Jets Takeout Planners of 2015 Paris Attacks

US-led coalition jets on Dec. 4 took out three senior ISIS leaders, including two involved in planning the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks on Paris. The strike on the ISIS-held city of Raqqa, Syria, killed Salah Gourmat and Sammy Djedou, who...

Airmen Rescue Marines After MV-22 Water Landing

By Brian W. Everstine

Five Marines are receiving treatment after their MV-22 Osprey landed in shallow water near Okinawa on Tuesday. Airmen and an? HH-60G from the 33rd Rescue Squadron at Kadena AB, Japan, responded and airlifted the aircrew to a Naval Hospital on...

DOD Has “Risk-Averse Culture”

By Wilson Brissett

Retired Brig. Gen. Scott Bethel blasted the Department of Defense bureaucracy Tuesday and singled out the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force for being “not very tolerant of risk or mistakes.” Innovative ideas and programs are strangled, he...

Ceasefire Reached in Aleppo, UN Accuses Regime of War Crimes

By Brian W. Everstine

Rebel groups reportedly reached a ceasefire deal with the Syrian government to let rebels leave the besieged city of Aleppo. However, the United Nations has accused the regime of executing civilians as it retakes ground. The UN on Tuesday accused...

Boeing Plants Defense Flag in Virginia

By John A. Tirpak

Boeing is moving the headquarters of its Defense, Space, and Security unit from St. Louis, Mo., to Arlington, Va., starting in January, a company spokesman confirmed, but the move will only affect about 50 people, and not all at once....

Lockheed Regularly Flying Its T-X Entrant

By Brian W. Everstine

Lockheed Martin’s entrant for the T-X program has been flying regularly around its new facility in South Carolina as the company tries to press the T-50A as a reliable aircraft for future Air Force training. The newest of the two...

Boeing Delivers Updated AWACS to NATO

Boeing on Tuesday delivered the first upgraded E-3A AWACS to NATO, equipped with cockpit upgrades. The Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management upgrade includes a digital flight deck and avionics upgrades needed to comply with current and future air traffic control...

Correction

An entry in the Dec. 9 Daily Report erroneously stated who called for an investigation into a coalition airstrike on ISIS fighters in a hospital in Mosul, Iraq. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve,...