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THE US has staged its biggest military attack formation ever – showcasing supersonic stealth jets, attack helicopters and ...
A map by Newsweek shows three United ... and RC-135W Rivet Joint, departed from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa. The Cobra Ball is designed for gathering data on ballistic missiles, a U.S. Air Force fact ...
The bombers had been stationed at Andersen Air Force Base, on Guam, then moved to Kadena Air Base ... were not where they were thought to be. The maps available at the beginning of the conflict ...
Kadena is the closest U.S. air base to Taiwan, located about 370 miles away and within range of Chinese medium-range ...
The US aircraft formation could be one of the largest "elephant walks" ever in Japan, and featured fighters, drones, and ...
Third-largest elephant walk in Air Force history Elephant walks typically involve a large number of aircraft, and the Kadena Air Base event on Okinawa was no exception — 53 Air Force and Navy ...
While most elephant walk events are simple parades of one or two aircraft — like the 52 F-35s that lined up at Hill Air Force Base in Utah in 2020 — the Kadena display was a near-perfect ...
A second squadron of F-35A Lightning IIs landed Thursday at Kadena Air Base, joining other F-35s and F-15E Strike Eagles on rotational duty with the 18th Wing on Okinawa. The multirole stealth ...
A show of force by a US base in East China Sea is 'a message you can’t ignore,' according to one Air Force official. Here's what it looks like.
A Japanese employee at Kadena Air Base died after suffering a medical emergency on the Okinawa installation last week, according to the 18th Wing. The undisclosed medical emergency occurred on ...