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OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- A B-2 Spirit takes off for an Operation Iraqi Freedom bombing mission while other aircraft from 40th Air Expe***ionary Wing prepare to launch from a forward-deployed location. The B-2''s "stealth" characteristics give it the ability to penetrate an enemy''s most sophisticated defenses and threaten its most valued and heavily defended targets.

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- Air Force munitions specialists from the 28th Air Expe***ionary Wing download Joint Direct Attack Munitions from a B-52H Stratofortress at an operating location in support of Operation Enduring Freedom on Nov. 28. Coalition forces used about 110 strike aircraft against Taliban and al Qaeda forces Dec. 2. About 90 of those were tactical jet aircraft from sea-based platforms, about 12 to 14 were land-based tactical jets, and between eight and 10 were long-range bombers.

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -â?" An Air Force munitions loader from the 28th Air Expe***ionary Wing, preps munitions to be loaded onto a B-1B Lancer at an operating location in support of the U.S. Central Command execution of Operation Enduring Freedom. B-1B bombers have dropped more than 3.8 million pounds of weapons and more than 60 percent of all munitions during OEF.

B-1B Lancer
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- Air Force crew chiefs from the 28th Air Expe***ionary Wing service a B-1B Lancer engine. The B-1B holds several world records for speed, payload and distance. The National Aeronautic Association recognized the B-1B for completing one of the 10 most memorable record flights for 1994. The B-1B was first used in combat in support of operations against Iraq during Operation Desert Fox in December 1998.

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Employees at Lockheed Martin''s F-22 Raptor assemble Raptor 4087. The aircraft is destined for Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. It is the first of 36 Raptors that will be assigned to Pacific Air Forces.

Two crew chiefs assist an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, after a mission July 6 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The A-10 is used for close-air support. The crew chiefs are assigned to the 455th Expe***ionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.

An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 336th Expe***ionary Fighter Squadron is refueled over Southwest Asia by a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 340th Expe***ionary Air Refueling Squadron on Tuesday, April 11, 2006. The F-15E is deployed from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., and the KC-135 is from Fairchild AFB, Wash.

The reflection of a KC-135R Stratotanker is seen in the heads-up display of an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 336th Expe***ionary Fighter Squadron as it refuels over Iraq on Tuesday, April 18, 2006. Fighters like the F-15E are able to stay in the air longer while providing support to ground forces because of the KC-135''s mission.

An F-15E Strike Eagle flies over a forward-deployed location in Southwest Asia. Aircraft like this are capable of monitoring the battlespace with their targeting pods. This concept is known as non-tra***ional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Lt. Col. Paul Smith holds the X-35A Joint Strike Fighter steady in behind a 418th Flight Test Squadron KC-135 tanker during the X-35A''s first refueling mission.