Tag: US Air Force

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Ascension Island airport to reopen to wide-body traffic by 2022

  

  The runway at Georgetown Wideawake Airport on Ascencion Island will be repaired by 2022 allowing AirTanker-operated A 330-200 flights to return, Fluor, the company which won the contract, said in a statement.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 08:43 UTC

  Trump launches a new force branch for space warfare to ensure US dominance

  

  President Donald Trump launched a new Pentagon command dedicated to warfare in space on Thursday, as American armed forces chiefs see China and Russia pressing hard to erode the US advantage in the newest military frontier.

• Monday, June 10th 2019 - 08:56 UTC

  Brazilian manufactured cargo plane undergoing certification tests in United States

  

  The Brazilian Air Force visited the Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in the US a month ago to run a series of low-altitude cargo extraction tests as part of a certification process for their new cargo plane.

• Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 16:36 UTC

  US Air Force plane takes off with help for Venezuela

  

  A C-17 cargo plane of the United States Air Force took off Saturday from the Homestead Air Force Base, in Florida, with the Venezuelan-Colombian border as the destination. The aircraft is one of three that will transport 250 tons of food, hygiene kits and nutritional supplements, a congressional aide to the US Congress told the Associated Press (AP).

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 23:55 UTC

  US Air Force contracts 20 Brazilian Super Tucano fighters for Afghanistan

  

  The US Air Force has chosen Brazil’s Embraer for a 427 million dollars contract to supply light attack planes to Afghan forces, the company said Thursday, despite competition from an American bid.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2012 - 02:59 UTC

  US Southern command watchful of political turbulence in Latam

  

  United States Air Force Commander, General Douglas Fraser, in charge of the US Southern Command, stated before Congress that the Department of Defence is “watchful for potential geopolitical turbulence that could impact US citizens,” and highlighted the uncertainties of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez health and economic instability.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 06:36 UTC

  Brazil’s Embraer sells 29 Super Tucano aircraft to the US Air Force

  

  Brazilian plane-maker Embraer will sell its A-29 Super Tucano aircraft to the US Air Force, in a firm-fixed price delivery order contract worth 355 million dollars, the company said in a statement.

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 01:48 UTC

  Under pressure Argentina returns seized cargo from US military plane

  

  The US embassy in Buenos Aires announced this week that the Argentine government has finally returned the cargo seized from an American military plane that landed at the Ezeiza airport amidst espionage accusations last February.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:00 UTC

  Obama to CFK: “can we have our (US Air Force seized) equipment back”

  

  US President Barack Obama expressed concern about the recent incident in which Argentina seized part of the cargo of a US military plane that was carrying supplies for a joint military exercise, according to US newspaper The Miami Herald’s Argentine columnist Andrés Oppenheimer.

• Sunday, March 13th 2011 - 00:47 UTC

  Argentina forgets the US Air Force incident and says relations are “excellent”

  

  Relations between Argentina and the United States are ‘excellent’ said ultra ‘Kirchnerite’ lawmaker Carlos Kunkel who discarded as ‘interested parties’ versions indicating certain ‘discomfort’ in President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration with the coming visit of President Barack Obama to El Salvador, Chile and Brazil.