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The National Interest on MSN5d
The $6 Billion Build-up of Bombers in the Indian Ocean
The massive convenience of U.S. bombers at the Diego Garcia military base in the remote corners of the Indian Ocean is likely ...
The Aviationist on MSN14d
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Begin Unannounced Deployment to Diego Garcia
Aviation enthusiasts have monitored at least two flights of multiple B-2 Spirit bombers transiting from Whiteman AFB to the ...
The National Interest15d
B-2 Bombers Land at Diego Garcia
The B-2 Spirit can conduct cross-country sorties from Whiteman AFB to the Middle East, but that requires more than a day in the pilot’s cockpit and multiple refuelings for the aircraft. The Air Force ...
Whiteman Air Force Base fighter wing targeting a ‘New’ Mission Accomplished
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Hilkert showed off the “Warthog” at a massive hangar at Whiteman Air Force base near Knob Knoster ...
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Whiteman AFB pauses suspensions of transgender service members
A spokesperson for Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force Base says no suspensions of transgender service members are being processed ...
Eric Schmitt: Missouri’s 442nd Fighter Wing should be repurposed, not eliminated | Opinion
Dismantling the 442nd Fighter Wing does not just retire a series of A-10s. The much greater loss is the elimination of a ...
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The Stealth Bomber Elite
Crew chiefs from Whiteman’s 509th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and ... which B-2 pilots fly from Whiteman Air Force Base in central Missouri. Twenty years after the first mysterious bomber ...