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336th Air Refueling Wing: not active as a refueling wing: 336th Bombardment Group: 336th Crew Training Group [note 5] [13] 340th Air Refueling Wing: 1 October 1984 – 1 October 1992: Altus AFB: 340th Bombardment Wing: 340th Flying Training Group: SAC, AMC [14] 380th Air Refueling Wing: 1 July 1992 – 30 September 1995: Plattsburgh AFB: 380th ...
Today, the 128th Air Refueling Wing (128th ARW) provides aerial refueling support to Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and allied nation aircraft. The 115th Fighter Wing (115 FW) flies the F-35A Lightning II fighter and is part of the USAF Air Combat Command attack forces performing air-interdiction and close air support (CAS).
The F-35 was the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which was the merger of various combat aircraft programs from the 1980s and 1990s. One progenitor program was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) which ran from 1983 to 1994; ASTOVL aimed to develop a Harrier jump jet replacement for the U.S. Marine Corps ...
F-16 Fighting Falcon: 115th Fighter Wing: Truax Field ANGB, Madison, Wisconsin: ACC: F-35 Lightning II: 116th Air Control Wing: Robins AFB, Georgia: ACC: TBD -- E-11? 117th Air Refueling Wing: Sumpter Smith JNGB, Birmingham, Alabama [2] AMC: KC-135 Stratotanker [3] 118th Wing: Berry Field ANGB, Nashville, Tennessee: ACC: MQ-9 Reaper: 119th Wing
A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon using a flying boom. Aerial refueling (), or aerial refuelling (), also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring aviation fuel from one aircraft (the tanker) to another (the receiver) while both aircraft are in flight.
An F-35B jet en route to California from Fort Worth crashed in New Mexico on Tuesday after stopping to refuel at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.. Lockheed Martin, which produces the ...
Joint Strike Fighter Wing (JSFW) (aka COMJSFWING or JSFWING) is the U.S. Navy's Fifth-generation fighter squadron wing. It oversees 4 squadrons that all fly the F-35C Lightning II . The wing, based at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California, is also home to the West Coast F-35C Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) VFA-125 , which is the only F-35C ...
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