Tag: Tinker Air Force Base
The historic video in this post shows B-2’s full array of instrumentation, as well as a dramatic in-flight refueling from inside the cockpit of America’s most secret aerial weapon. For the first time in the 30-year history of the Air Force’s B-2 stealth bomber program, video footage recently filmed in a B-2A “Spirit”...
Robins AFB, Georgia, and Hill AFB, Utah, will support Tinker AFB to ensure the advanced B-21 Raider is maintained The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has selected Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma, to coordinate maintenance and sustainment of the B-21 Raider and Edwards AFB, California, to lead testing and evaluation of the next generation long-range strike bomber. According to the service...
B-52J's upgrades would include a defensive systems and avionics modernization, a crash-survivable flight data recorder, a weapons system trainer, advanced targeting pod relocation and an ejection seat The U.S. Air Force (USAF) could undertake a major upgrade of the iconic BUFF. As reported by Aviation Week in fact the service may formalize plans for a B-52J upgrade variant of its venerable...
The Block 45 major avionics update is forecast to prolong the life of the KC-135 into its 80th or 90th year On Aug. 25, 2017, the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa received its first KC-135 aircraft converted with the newest digital avionics cockpit instruments known as the Block 45 upgrade. As explained by Master...
Tinker AFB Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex is responsible for depot maintenance on the C/KC-135, B-1B, B-52 and E-3 aircraft Taken on May 18, 2017 the cool picture in this article features a lightning striking behind a B-1B Lancer parked on the flight line as a major storm approaches Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), Okla. As it can be seen the...
This modification includes three changes to the outer mold line of the E-6B consisting of three new radomes According to a U.S. Air Force press release appeared on Edwards AFB website (and that now you can find here) A U.S. Navy E-6B recently completed testing at Edwards and returned to Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma Feb. 7, 2017. The E-6B...
DRAGON modernization will bring a whole new level of communication, navigation and surveillance to the U.S. and NATO E-3 operational community As reported by 552nd Air Control Wing in the article New year, new Sentry – DRAGON, the first E-3 Sentry aircraft with the glass flight deck modification known as DRAGON (Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations...
The KC-135 Stratotanker boom remains very effective when it comes to pass gas to the receiver aircraft Filmed during Rim of the Pacific 2016, the world's largest international maritime exercise , the cool time lapse video in this post shows four U.S. F-22 Raptors from the 199th Fighter Squadron and the active duty 19th Fighter Squadron receiving fuel from a...
