A fleet of firefighting aircraft sits at the Santa Maria Public Airport where the state's extreme fire weather has led to an ...
U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) equipped C-130J Super Hercules ...
Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.
(California Air National Guard/TMX) Once a load is discharged from a MAFFS-equipped aircraft, and the aircraft lands at a tanker base ... the Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing ...
Boeing delivered a total of 25 fighter jets along with tankers, martime patrol aircraft, and military helicopters.
The Los Angeles fires first started on January 7, 2025, as a result of strong winds. According to NBC, the first area to be ...
The Chinese Air Force is quickly moving to expand its fleet of air-to-air refueling aircraft to close a tanker deficit with the United States and more fully project global airpower.
Around 730 British Army vehicles have been loaded onto cargo ships, ready to be transported to Romania for NATO’s first ...
"About four people were thrown southward. We could hear them crying and screaming in the air," Abubakar Jibrin, a witness who narrowly escaped the fire, told PREMIUM TIMES.How did it happen?That was ...
a parachute jump with the U.S. Army Golden Knights demonstration team and a ride in the back of an Air Force tanker watching a boom operator fuel a fighter jet. Her reporting has taken her across ...