The F-15EX Eagle II provides a unique opportunity for the test enterprise as it is the first Air Force aircraft to be completely tested and fielded through combined developmental and operational test efforts. Capabilities that the F-15EX adds to the F-15C are its fly-by-wire system; two extra weapon stations, and an updated cockpit with touch-screen color displays; EPAWSS and advanced radar...
The E-11A is a modified Bombardier Global Express 6000/BD-700-1A10 business jet equipped with specialized communications relay equipment to translate between tactical comm and data links. It provides joint range extension, BLOS C2, and Internet protocol-based data transfer between dissimilar systems. E-11A was fielded to meet an urgent operational need for BLOS relay between ground troops and...
The 23d Wing and 347th Rescue Group leadership received the Air Force’s first two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters. The delivery of the new model is significant to the personnel recovery mission as it begins the transition from the predecessor, the HH-60G Pave Hawk, which has been flown for more than 26 years.
CMA maintains destruction technology and personnel expertise to destroy recovered chemical warfare materiel around the country in support of and in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. is the first ship named in honor of Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen Jr., the first African-American Marine Corps aviator and the first African-American Marine Corps officer promoted to brigadier general. When he retired in 1988 after 38 years of service, he was, by date of designation, the senior-ranking aviator in the Marine Corps and the United...
An M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank powers up a concrete slope on the side of a hill in the Yuma Proving Ground desert. Testing military equipment in realistic environmental conditions ensures systems function as advertised when used in the real world.
An unmanned aircraft takes off from one of five airfields at 1300 square mile Yuma Proving Ground, located in Southwest Arizona. The combination of the night sky and slow camera exposure makes for a dramatic photo.
An M109A7 Self-Propelled 155mm Howitzer conducts a firing test at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Az. Artillery testing has been a major part of the proving ground's workload since its beginning during World War II. Yuma Proving Ground features the longest overland firing range in the United States.
