Aircrew and mission planners operating KC-135 Stratotankers, KC-10 Extenders and the KC-46 Pegasus came together for AMC’s premier readiness exercise to test specialized computers and communication systems that enable rapid data sharing as a means of,
KC-46 Pegasus came together for AMC’s premier readiness exercise to test specialized computers and communication systems that enable rapid data sharing as a means of ensuring strategic deterrence.
“What we re able to do here is innovate ourselves, think our way through problems as we re actually being presented with them,” said Lt. Col. Benjamin Davidson, 54th Air Refueling Squadron director of operations and 28th Mission Generation Squadron commander. “We ve got young crews out here that think in new ways, think outside the box and come up with some things others might not have thought of.”
Training exercises like Mobility Guardian provide AMC’s tanker force the opportunity to sharpen their readiness, ensure strategic deterrence and enable nuclear capabilities for the nation in any environment with minimal resources.
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While there were hopes of a different fate for Austrian Airlines’ oldest Boeing 767, reports have emerged that 30-year-old OE-LAT is currently being dismantled in the Arizona desert. Meanwhile, its slightly younger sibling is stored at a general aviation airport in Minnesota, which also houses a maintenance facility for cargo specialist Kalitta Air.
The first of Austrian’s Boeing 767s (not pictured) has been spotted engine-less in the desert. Photo: Vincenzo Pace – Simple Flying
Stripped of its P&W engines
We have been closely following the fate of Austrian Airlines’ Boeing 767s here at Simple Flying. Even though the airline managed to find a new owner for three of the classic red-and-white liveried widebodies, unfortunately, it looks as if at least one will not fly again. As aeroTELEGRAPH reports, photos have emerged from the aircraft graveyard at Pinal Airpark, Arizona, of OE-LAT stripped of its engines.
ALPENA â Exercise Mobility Guardian 2021, the Air Forceâs largest and longest exercise ensuring readiness to move military personnel and equipment in combat operations, is scheduled to begin at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center on May 15.
More than 1,800 exercise participants will operate 18 mobility aircraft at six locations in Michigan and Wisconsin through May 27 in order to validate Air Mobility Commandâs readiness to provide Rapid Global Mobility for America and the Joint Force.
Additional exercise locations include Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport, Michigan and Volk Field, Wisconsin, with Air National Guard units from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio flying in the exercise.
The biennial exercise includes AMCâs first large-scale integration of cutting-edge concepts to advance warfighting capabilities. Multi-Capable Mobility Airmen will demonstrate speed and agility while enabling refueling and re-arming of fighter aircraft in an austere location. Airc