Kadena Air Base on the Japanese island of Okinawa is ... The "chicken" isn't a chicken at all; it's a fighting gamecock. The unit motto "unguibus et rostro" is Latin for "talons and beak," meaning ...

The United States has staged a show of force with over 50 military aircraft and a pair of missile launchers at Kadena Air Base in Japan, its frontline outpost in the Western Pacific Ocean. Kadena Air ...

The U.S. military is busy replacing its aging F-15C/D fighter jets at Kadena Air Base in Japan. Since it was announced in 2022, the base has been home to a series of rotating units while the F-15C ...

As the F-15C nears the end of its tenure at the base, the Department of Defense has chosen the F-15EX Eagle II to carry forward the mission of ensuring air superiority in Kadena. On Aug. 24 ...

Construction began April 17 on a new, 131,384-square-foot hangar at Kadena Air Base to replace an aging ... in keeping the Air Force pararescue motto: “These things we do, that others may ...

Kadena Air Base, Japan, bid farewell to the first wave of F-15 Eagles that left the 18th Wing on December 1, 2022 and returned to the United States. This marked the first departure of Eagles as a ...

While most elephant walk events are simple parades of one or two aircraft — like the 52 F-35s that lined up at Hill Air Force Base in Utah in 2020 — the Kadena display was a near-perfect ...

An F-15C Eagle assigned to the 44th Fighter Squadron taxis down the flightline for the final time at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Dec. 1, 2022. As a part of its modernization plan, the 18th Wing is ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...