5 types of military aircraft that California uses to fight fires
In order to reach remote fires in the State Responsibility Area, CAL FIRE maintains a fleet of firefighting aircraft, many of ...
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How Ontario and Canada is helping fight the L.A. wildfires — plus Eugene Levy among Canadian celebrities who have lost their homes
With the L.A. wildfires raging and causing extensive damage and horrendous loss in Southern California — Canadians are ...
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MAFFS-Equipped C-130s Join the Fight Against Raging Los Angeles Fires
The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service ...
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Air Force Authorizes EPAWSS for Full-Rate Production
Learn about how USAF has authorized the F-15 Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System for full-rate production under ...
See the US military's special C-130 Hercules water bombers that are joining the LA wildfire fight
The Pentagon sent C-130 MAFFS-equipped aircraft to fight the LA fires. The water bombers drop nearly 14 tons of fire ...
Air Force ‘standards update’ includes more inspections and review of ‘waivers and exceptions’
The review comes as Air Force leadership is expected to brief Congress on a possible pilot program that would allow airmen to ...
More F-15Es to get advanced electronic-warfare system under new deal
EPAWSS comes standard in the new F-15EX Eagle II, and the Air Force wants to retrofit some existing F-15E jets with the ...
The Aviationist22h
Some of the Old, Some of the New: Boeing’s P-26 “Peashooter”
The first all-metal low-wing monoplane pursuit aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was a pioneering but also transitional aircraft, and, ...
Serbia cancels Russian arms deals amid Ukraine war, Western sanctions
As international sanctions continue to pressure Moscow, Belgrade is shopping for military gear elsewhere, including in Israel ...
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin welcomes meeting with Trump as ‘supermarket hit with US missile’ in Donetsk
The UK and other Nato member states are sending 30,000 FPV drones to Ukraine in a boost to European security and to help the war-hit country to fight Russian aggression. At such a critical moment in ...