Air Combat Command chief Gen. John Corley told defense reporters March 27 in Washington, D.C., that he’s “desperate” for hard data on which to make long-term decisions about the useful life of the F-15 fleet, in the wake of a...

Gen John Corley, commander of Air Combat Command, said March 27 he favors increasing the number of B-52s that USAF maintains in the same configuration for combat and training from 56 to 76. Speaking to reporters in Washington, D.C., Corley...

The Air Force really needs about 558 F-22-like aircraft, but has only asked for 381 (and is approved for only 183) “purely because of affordability,” Air Combat Command chief Gen. John Corley told defense reporters March 27 in Washington, D.C....

Asked why the Air Force hasn’t deployed F-22s to US Central Command’s area of responsibility to blunt criticism that it hasn’t been used in combat, Gen. John Corley, commander of Air Combat Command, said, “We don’t want to do just...

The B-2 that crashed Feb. 23 in Guam “basically stalled” and is “absolutely a total write-off,” Gen. John Corley, head of Air Combat Command, told defense reporters at a meeting March 27 in Washington, D.C. Corley said the pilots reported...

Both the Air Force and Northrop Grumman independently have filed requests asking the Government Accountability Office to issue a summary dismissal of parts of the Boeing protest over the KC-X tanker award to Northrop. Boeing filed its protest on March...

The recent revelation that the US shipped Minuteman missile parts to Taiwan instead of helicopter radio batteries may lead to a review of the Defense Department’s effort to privatize many military functions, an effort that has had mixed support on...

Some 12 KC-135E model tankers that have been taking up space—and absorbing resources—of the Kansas Air National Guard’s 190th Air Refueling Wing in Topeka reportedly will be going to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., sooner rather than later. Various...

The Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing in Burlington has just flown one of its Block 25 F-16s past 7,000 flying hours, the first F-16C to accumulate so many hours, reports the Burlington Free Press. ANG Lt. Col. Thomas...

The Air National Guard-led 1st Air Force/Air Forces Northern, headquartered at Tyndall AFB, Fla., working with the Civil Air Patrol, has supplied aerial photography of flooding in various areas of Missouri at the state’s request, said Maj. Gen. Hank Morrow,...

March 25, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 23 11 34 2,281 CAS/Armed Recon 65 33 98 6,930 Airlift 147 147 10,369 Air refueling 46 46 3,217 Total 325 22,797 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...