Wanting To Retire B-1B Bombers Is One Thing, Actually Making It Happen Is Another
The Air Force will reportedly ask to retire a portion of its B-1Bs force, but the motivations behind the move and its feasibility are far from clear.
The Air Force will reportedly ask to retire a portion of its B-1Bs force, but the motivations behind the move and its feasibility are far from clear.
Although the test is a promising step toward manned-unmanned air combat teaming, it is an echo of a much more promising past.
The Russian satellite recently moved into a new position where it has an especially good view of a US KH-11 spy satellite.
The plan reflects the better part of a decade of debate about expanding the roles and missions of these maritime patrol aircraft.
Red Flag is nearly half a century old and it is still the world's top air combat training event, the latest iteration of which is very exclusive.
The Army is only planning to upgrade a fraction of its Bradleys with the auxiliary power units necessary to run the defensive systems.
We can talk about missing Patriots in Iraq, battlefield space, geopolitics, the B-21's curves—you know, no big whoop.
Amid this prospect of more KC-46 delays, senior US officials are increasingly considering hiring contractors to help fill the potential tanker gap.
Although limited in detail, the new concept art offers new insights into the B-21's inlets, other stealthy features, and overall size.
The heavy armored vehicles were only on the ground for a matter of weeks after the U.S. government heavily promoted the deployment publicly.
Iraq is holding up the plan, but it's also hard to understand how the US military didn't fix this defensive gap earlier given the known threats.
All of the individuals who fly these highly specialized planes, all of which are forward-deployed in Afghanistan, volunteer for the job.
The aircraft is one of just four the service operates to provide critical data fusion and communications relay capabilities.
How the top-secret unit came to be is so outlandish that it sounds like fiction, but as this first-hand account details, it was anything but.
Proponents argue that the warheads give the United States added deterrent flexibility, but critics warn they lower the threshold for using nukes.
On the first night of the invasion of Iraq, securing Saddam's deepwater port was crucial. Here's an aviator's first-hand account of how it went down.
The uncommonly large set of launches comes as the U.S. is developing multiple new warheads for the Trident II as a new arms race with Russia looms.
These developments point to a major escalation in Turkey's involvement in the conflict following abortive attempts to broker a ceasefire.
Turkey is racing to prop-up Libya's internationally-recognized government, which is losing ground to its rivals.
Documents describe the unique planning that went into bringing the flying-wing reconnaissance drones to the Korean Peninsula and more.