Category: Notizie Estero

First KC-10 to retire to Davis-Monthan AFB

The U.S. Air Force has retired the first KC-10 aerial refueling tanker. The aircraft, #86-0036, was from the 514th Air Mobility Wing. A total of three KC-10s from the Air Force’s Backup-Aircraft Inventory were congressionally approved for retirement during Fiscal Year 2020. For more information, hit the Source below Source

Modified ASM-3 supersonic anti-ship missile revealed

The ASM-3 supersonic anti-ship missile being developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has undergone modifications, a photo posted by Japan’s State Minister for National Defense Tomohiro Yamamoto has revealed. Photos: Office of Tomohiro Yamamoto The missile appeared under the wing of a F-2 fighter in a group photo taken at MHI’s Komaki plant. The weapon […]

Japan has decided to operate its F-35Bs on JS Izumo

Japan published its 2020 Defense White Paper today and in the section on the F-35B, the government has confirmed that the stealth fighter will operate from the Izumo-class helicopter destroyer. By Kaijō Jieitai (海上自衛隊 / Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force) (http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/jmp/201612.html) [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons The paper says this is in response to the […]
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