F-22 Raptor makes emergency landing at Air Force base on Okinawa, report says
An Air Force F-22A Raptor made an emergency landing at Kadena Air Base, according to the Ryukyu Shimpo.
An Air Force F-22A Raptor made an emergency landing at Kadena Air Base, according to the Ryukyu Shimpo.
No one was injured and no property damage was reported in the incident that occurred at about 11 a.m., an Eglin Air Force Base spokesperson said. It was not immediately clear why the fuel tank dropped during the flight.
A Ramstein Air Base proposal for Frankfurt Airport shuttle service was scrapped for lack of bids, ending hopes in the largest U.S. military community overseas for a better option to get to the European hub.
Commissary shoppers in Europe will soon have to bring their own bags or purchase a reusable option as base grocery stores progressively phase out single-use plastic bags this month.
Failing concrete in housing units at Sebille Manor on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa has prompted the Air Force to move one family from its home and notify several others they must relocate by June 30.
Airmen from the 6th Air Refueling Wing returned home to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday after a three-month deployment delivering coalition air power and support to secure and stabilize the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will hold his final meeting of a group of about 50 countries that banded together to support Ukraine against Russia’s 2022 invasion.
Japanese officials visited a training facility at Yokota Air Base, where firefighting foam likely overflowed into stormwater drains last summer.
Cadet 1st Class K. Emily Jean Foster died due to complications from brain tumors that were discovered just two weeks before her death. She died while at home with her family.
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A U.S. airman’s keen sense of situational awareness foiled a hotel robbery after he took notice of odd behavior in the lobby, according to investigators in the Florida Panhandle.
The strikes, conducted Monday and Tuesday by U.S. Navy ships and aircraft, targeted a command hub and weapons production facility as well as a bunker housing missiles and drones.
The Air Force expanded retention bonuses this month for 89 career fields in high demand from cyber systems operations to bomb technicians.
107th Attack Wing leaders are betting a trailer outfitted with an $88,000 gaming system will help the New York Air Guard unit recruit new airmen in 2025. The simulator and trailer combination is modeled on a system the Air Force also uses for recruiting.
The suspect secretly took photos of young children in the community to turn them into AI-generated images, according to a prosecutor memorandum. Law enforcement found over 10,000 images of partially clothed children and hundreds of AI-generated pornographic images.
A new Air Force policy allows waivers to be granted in certain cases for asthma, hearing loss and food allergies.
The new O’Malley Dining Facility at Kunsan Air Base is more than twice the size of the old building.
Maryland is poised to gain control of a D.C. Air National Guard squadron, a U.S. Air Force spokesperson has confirmed, putting back into place the third major component of a multilayered deal around the District’s control of the RFK Stadium site.
Airmen at Aviano Air Base took their final active-duty flight this week in the Pave Hawk helicopter, which the Air Force is phasing out.
More than 100 homes on Kadena Air Base will be inspected after spalling concrete was discovered in several buildings.