Pending repairs to the island airfield, the Air Force’s 18th Wing since December 2023 has made its training drops about once ...

Air Force civil engineers are inspecting another 263 homes for spalling concrete, a month after announcing families in ...

special operations versions of the C-130 are constantly on the go at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Take a rare inside look at the aircraft and operations. Like many other U.S. Air Force installations ...

When asked if all the F-15s at the Kadena Air Base have returned to the U.S., a spokesperson declined to disclose specific information because of operational security. Newsweek has contacted the ...

KADENA, Okinawa Prefecture--The aging fleet of mainstay U.S. F-15 fighter jets at Kadena Air Base is gradually being withdrawn from service and replaced by a rotational deployment of some of the ...

Kadena Air Base is on Okinawa, a Japanese island that is part of a blockade known as the first island chain with Taiwan and the Philippines under a U.S. defense concept, which attempts to leverage ...

which is the host aviation unit for Kadena Air Base said that a number of F-35A aircraft arrived Monday. They are assigned to the Vermont Air National Guard's 134th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron.

As previously reported, an F-22 Raptor from the 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron experienced a tire blowout during takeoff at Kadena in October 2024.The air superiority fighter was forced to ...

She moved around 10 years ago to the central part of the main Okinawa island, where Kadena Air Base and the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma are located, from the southern part of the island.

You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing [email protected]. At a distance of just 370 miles, Kadena is the closest American air base to Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China has long claimed as ...