Yearly Archive: 2020

Notizie Estero

21 Ott, 2020

USAF to retrain WSOs as B-21 pilots

The U.S. Air Force is planning to retrain some of its weapons systems officers (WSO) from the bomber track as pilots for B-21 stealth bomber. Maj. Gen. Mark E. Weatherington, 8th Air Force commander, said this will reduce that number of weapons systems officers in the B-1 and B-52 fleet by one-third to a half. […]

Notizie Estero

21 Ott, 2020

RoKAF will not assign new South Korea nickname for its RQ-4

Bucking the trend, the Republic of Korea Air Force (RoKAF) will not be assigning a local nickname for the RQ-4. Photo: U.S. State Department Instead, the unmanned air vehicle will still be called Global Hawk. The service had given the nickname “Freedom Knight” to the F-35A last year. Separately, Korea Herald reports that the Tasking, […]

Notizie Estero

21 Ott, 2020

Indonesia rejects U.S. requests for ground support of P-8A

The U.S. government made requests in July and August this year to Indonesia for its P-8A to land and refuel in the South East Asian country but those requests were rejected. Darren Koch (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2), via Wikimedia Commons Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo personnaly rejected those requests, Reuters reports. For more information, hit […]

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