Fuerza Aérea de EE.UU. (USAF)

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Sí, cuatro de ellos. Primera vez.

Y relacionado:

US Air Force recalls mothballed B-1B to service from boneyard

A mothballed Lancer is being refurbished for a return to active service with the USAF... among more than a dozen B-1Bs retired to the USAF’s “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AFB in the Arizona desert in 2021. At the time of the B-1B retirements, the USAF said four of the 17 examples would be stored in “recallable” Type 2000 condition, a state similar to Type 1000.
However, the loss of multiple Lancers in non-combat mishaps in recent years prompted air force officials to begin “regenerating” the decommissioned aircraft. “The fact that our air force can call up an aircraft that has sat dormant for several years, all within a year, is incredible,” Colonel Seth Spanier, commander of the 7th Bomb Wing, said on 18 March.

More B-1Bs may soon follow. The USAF’s other Lancer operator – the 28th Bomb Wing at South Dakota’s Ellsworth AFB – also lost an aircraft in January...

Originally 100 Lancer were built. Of those, 33 were retired by the USAF in 2001 to pay for modernisation efforts at the time... the service currently operates 42 B-1Bs.

According to Davis-Monthan AFB, there are more than 4,400 aircraft, 5,900 engines and 340,000 pieces of aircraft production tooling stored at the Davis-Monthan boneyard, including types operated by all US military services. Many of the aircraft have been cannibalised for parts.

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing ... 77.article

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El EPAWSS del F-15 completa la evaluación y las pruebas operacionales iniciales (IOT&E): https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-15- ... l-testing/

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El 18.º escuadrón de agresores de la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. redesignado como 18.º escuadrón de cazas interceptores

Parece una vuelta a la guerra fría.(en Alaska )

https://theaviationist.com/2024/04/04/u ... -squadron/

"La designación del 18º FIS realinea nuestros recursos con las prioridades nacionales que impulsan los conjuntos de misiones del Departamento de Defensa y la Fuerza Aérea", dijo el teniente general David Nahom, comandante de la Región del Comando de Defensa Aeroespacial de América del Norte de Alaska, el Comando de Alaska y el Undécimo Ejército. Fuerza.

No está claro si la unidad también conservará su papel de Agresor , ya que la Fuerza Aérea no lo mencionó en el comunicado de prensa. El servicio solo dijo que la redesignación permite a la unidad organizar, entrenar y equipar para la misión de combate principal de proporcionar control aeroespacial para misiones de defensa nacional en el Teatro de Operaciones de Alaska.

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CNN exclusive: On board a B-52 bomber mission to China’s doorstep. The flight would take 33 hours

and cover more than 13,000 miles. The jet cruised at about 28,000 feet, mostly over the icy waters of the north Pacific Ocean.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/10/poli ... index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrjsIfaFGoc

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Algo más sobre el JSE, que en 2028 tendrá una réplica en la USAF:

Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) at NAS Patuxent River in Maryland.

conceived in 2016, been in use since 2022... The JSE is a collection of networked simulators located in NAWCAD’s Patuxent River facilities. Eight F-35 cockpits, now joined by four F-22 cockpits, each reside within 4.6m-wide domes giving pilots a 300° field of view

The unique, realistic training provided by the JSE already led the US military to add F-22 cockpit simulators to the system. Officials are also working to bring F/A-18 Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler and E-2D Advanced Hawkeye simulators online. Plans also call for JSE updates to accommodate future and emerging platforms, including the Next Generation Air Dominance sixth-generation fighter [y el F/A-XX], the B-21 stealth bomber and autonomous drones known as collaborative combat aircraft.

By 2025, the US military plans to integrate elements of the digital-range environment into the integrated test-training facility at NAS Fallon in Nevada, home to the USN’s Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Programme, better known as TOPGUN.
In 2028, the USAF expects to receive a full high-fidelity JSE with F-35 and F-22 cockpits at its Virtual Training and Testing Center at Nellis AFB.

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing ... 37.article

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Las negociaciones de la USAF con Boeing para la compra de E-7 están estancadas debido al alto precio que pide esta última: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/e-7-b ... otiations/

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