Airmen participating in Exercise Pitch Black 2024 in Australia concluded operations Aug. 2, 2024, marking the end of the largest iteration of the Royal Australian Air Force’s biennial capstone exercise. With more than 140 aircraft and 4,000 members from multiple continents and geographic regions, Pitch Black 24 provided participants an…
U.S. Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force have conducted a multitude of exercises and operations across the Indo-Pacific throughout 2024. I MEF provides the Marine Corps a globally responsive, expeditionary, and fully scalable Marine Air-Ground Task Force, capable of generating, deploying, and employing ready forces and formations across the Pacific.…
A time-lapse of the sunrise with the U.S. Air Force C-5M Super Galaxies parked on the flight line at Travis Air Force Base in California Dec. 30, 2024. The C-5M is a strategic transport aircraft and is the largest aircraft in the Air Force inventory. TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA…
The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), sails in formation with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) Kashima-class training ship, JS Kashima (TV-3508), front and Hatakaze-class guided missile destroyer JS Shimakaze (TV-3521) while conducting routine operations in the Atlantic Ocean, September 23, 2024. ATLANTIC OCEAN…
F-35A Lightning II aircraft from the 354th Fighter Wing participate in exercise Arctic Gold 25-1 on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. 10.07.2024 Video by Travis Minyon F-35 Joint Program Office
The 33rd Fighter Wing conducted an Agile Combat Employment exercise at Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Arkansas, Sept. 9 - 20, 2024. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate that Ebbing’s facilities and airspace were suitable for F-35A Lightning II training, in preparation to begin the Foreign Military Sales…
The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is underway in the Atlantic Ocean completing integrated naval warfighting training. Composite Unit Training Exercises are an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force, to assess their ability to carry out sustained combat…
Two F-35 Lightning IIs arrived on Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Fort Smith, Arkansas as part of the Foreign Military Sales Mission on Dec. 23, 2024. The F-35s will be used to train Polish pilots and were welcomed to Ebbing by the 188th Fire Department giving them a "Water Salute".…
