The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has completed work on a £25m project to resurface taxiways and aircraft parking stands for the US Air Force at RAF Fairford. While it is owned by the UK Government, RAF Fairford is used by the US Air Force as a bomber forward operating base. The ...
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, in partnership with Northrop Grumman, has been selected to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile for the US Air Force (USAF). HACM is a first-of-its-kind weapon developed in conjunction with the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE), a US and Australia project arrangement. Under this contract, the ...
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first F-16 jet as part of the F-16 Sustainment Depot program back to the US Air Force. Lockheed Martin was originally selected for the US Air Force’s F-16 Sustainment Depot program in December 2020, and the first jet arrived in Greenville, South Carolina for work in ...
The first four of the US Air Force’s new F-35 aircraft to be based in Europe have arrived at RAF Lakenheath, having been flown across the Atlantic from manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s factory in the USA. This is an important milestone both for the US Air Force personnel stationed at the Suffolk ...