Love practice days when @AFThunderbirds #8 serves as the photo plane. I’m like what - we have a 7-ship now 🤙
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🚨🚀 The Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $694 million contract to produce and field the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), moving the hypersonic boost glide missile from flight testing into production.
The contract was awarded Sept. 29 and announced Oct. 26. ARRW uses a solid fuel rocket booster to exceed Mach 5, then releases a hypersonic glide vehicle to strike heavily defended targets from standoff range. Air & Space Forces Magazine reports it will initially be fielded on the B-52. Quantities and delivery dates are withheld for operational security.
File photo: ARRW test vehicle on a B-52H, Edwards AFB, Aug. 2020.
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Unofficial. Not DoD.
Fly safe. 🫡
Media: U.S. Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem via DVIDS.
One of my favorites from yesterday at the Frontiers in Flight Airshow 2026 - McConnell Air Force Base.
I'll have many more to share. @AFThunderbirds
Thunderbird 8 (F-16 D-model 2-seater) joining the party today. If be lying if I didn’t say I wish I was in that 2nd seat. What a view it must be! @AFThunderbirds
Diddy. That's right. Diddy Kong was the other half of the 2-ship today in Wichita. Diddy been busy - check out the markings below the canopy. A-10C Warthog 78-613 of the 23rd FW Flying Tigers.
On April 14 Ohio ANG KC-135R Stratotanker 59-1444 from the 121st ARW arrived at Tinker after sustaining damage while deployed at PSAB. Advanced ADBR maintenance patched her up for the long flight back to depot. Today marks a new chapter for her. Eddie62 - hope to see you again!
Hey IP, I see you, you see me Here’s T-38C 66-8400 from the 25th FTS/71st FTW based at Vance AFB working the pattern as Shoot15. I’ve been able to collect quite a few patches from around the country but I still don’t have any from the Shooters yet. Hoping to change that.
Had the opportunity to catch an AK F-35A 4-ship passing through Tinker AFB for some fuel today on their way to Florida. They were all with the 354th Fighter Wing, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, including the wing commander (flagship 18-5354), and the 356th FS commander as well.
