Grandson of pilot who nuked Hiroshima now 2nd in command of US long-range bombers

Published time: 5 Mar, 2017 10:04Edited time: 5 Mar, 2017 10:05 The grandson of Paul Tibbets Jr., the pilot who dropped the notorious ‘Little Boy’ bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, killing as many as 90,000 people, has been promoted to second-in-command of the US Air Force’s nuclear-capable long-range bombers. Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets IV […]

China tests new extremely long-range missile that could muscle the US out of the South China Sea

dafeng cao via Twitter Chinese media on Thursday indicated ongoing work on a new long range air-to-air missile that seems tailor-made to give the US Air Force problems when operating in the Pacific. As Business Insider has previously covered, tensions between the US and China have been steadily ratcheting up over the last few years, […]