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Air Force Admits F-22 Raptors Won’t Hit 80 Percent Mission Capable Target On Time
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 24, 2019
Meet The AIM-260, The Air Force And Navy’s Future Long-Range Air-To-Air Missile
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 21, 2019
The Air Force’s Special Operations PC-12s Finally Have An Official Nickname
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 20, 2019
The B-52 Looks Set To Become The USAF’s Hypersonic Weapons Truck Of Choice
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 18, 2019
Air Force To Test Target Drone Turned Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 18, 2019
Behold The First Flight Of A B-52 Bomber Carrying The AGM-183A Hypersonic Missile
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 17, 2019
B-52 Bomber Flies For The First Time With New Hypersonic Missile Under Its Wing
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 13, 2019
USAF Fighter And Bomber Crews Get Modified M4 Rifles That Fit Under Ejection Seats
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 5, 2019
USAF Wants More Airlift Capacity But With C-17 Out Of Production What Could Provide It?
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 5, 2019
The Air Force Found Airmen Boozing It Up In A Nuclear Missile Alert Facility In Wyoming
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 28, 2019
A Tornado Touched Down On Or Very Near Wright Patterson Air Force Base In Ohio (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 28, 2019
The Air Force Can’t Say What It Plans To Do With Its Retired B-2 Bombers
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 27, 2019
Boeing’s T-X Jet Trainer Takes to the Air as New Contender Emerges
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 27, 2019
Raptor Nest: To Escape Hurricane Matthew, Dozens Of F-22s Migrate West From Langley AFB
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 27, 2019
You Have To Hear What Keeps The Head Of U.S. Strategic Command Up At Night
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 25, 2019
The Dark World Of USAF Special Ops Air Refuelers And Their Modified KC-135RT Tankers
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 24, 2019
New Hangars Constructed At Edwards AFB Ahead Of B-21 Raider’s Arrival
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 22, 2019
The U.S. Military Wants Tiny Road Mobile Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In A C-17
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 20, 2019
Air Force F-16 Aggressor Jet Emerges In Highly Anticipated “Ghost” Paint Scheme
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 18, 2019
The Air Force’s New HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter Has Taken Flight For The First Time
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 17, 2019
New Video Of B-2 Bomber Dropping Mother Of All Bunker Busters Sends Ominous Message
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 17, 2019
A B-52H Nicknamed “Wise Guy” Becomes The Second To Ever Come Back From The Bone Yard
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 15, 2019
Air Force Tests Tiny Personnel Footprint For Operating Fighters In Austere Combat Zones
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 14, 2019
Shot Down? The USAF Now Wants To Air-Drop An Air Taxi To Fly You Out To Safety
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 14, 2019
F-35 Aggressor Squadron To Be Activated At Nellis Air Force Base (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 9, 2019
Air Force Considering Making Its Next Tanker A Drone With A Podded Refueling Boom
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 3, 2019
Family Says Land Overlooking Area 51 Is Worth $116M—USAF Says $330k
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 3, 2019
USAF Wants To Turn HC-130J’s Self Defense Suite Into “Sauron’s Eye” Vision System
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 2, 2019
U.S. Air Force T-6A Turboprop Training Plane Crashed Near Lake in Oklahoma
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 1, 2019
USAF F-35As Flew First-Ever Combat Strikes With Radar Reflectors And Sidewinders Fitted
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 30, 2019
Boeing’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Trucked To Air Base Near St. Louis For Flight Testing
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 29, 2019
In CAS Of Emergency Grab One Of These Sweet A-10 Warthog T-Shirts!
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 26, 2019
Pentagon Investigation Says Acting SecDef Shanahan Was Justifiably Critical Of The F-35
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 25, 2019
We Finally Know How Many F-22s Were Left Behind At Tyndall AFB During Hurricane Michael
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 22, 2019
Tyndall Air Force Base In Ruins After Michael, Fighter Jets Seen Inside Roofless Hangars
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 22, 2019
More Than A Dozen Air Force KC-135s and KC-46s Flee Kansas Base Ahead Of Bad Weather
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 17, 2019
U.S. Air Force F-35A’s First Combat Deployment To The Middle East Has Begun
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 15, 2019
Idahoans Sue Air Force To Stop It From Using Their Towns For Targeting Practice
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 12, 2019
USAF Secretary Gives Ominous Warning That Show Of Force Needed To Deter Space Attacks
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 12, 2019
A U-2 Spy Plane Is Flying Peculiar Tracks High Over South Las Vegas (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 9, 2019
USAF Reveals Timelines And Basing Plans For Its Huge Adversary Support Contract
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 9, 2019
Those Lights In The Sky Seen Across The U.S. Were Big Formations Of Military Airlifters
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 8, 2019
The USAF’s Plan To Move F-22 Training Could Make Langley Air Force Base Raptor Central
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 29, 2019
The Air Force Has Grounded Its B-1B Bomber Fleet For The Second Time In A Year
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 28, 2019
8 F-15Xs For USAF And 22 F-5s For Navy In 2020 Budget Request
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 14, 2019