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U.S. Air Forces in Europe reported another round of mysterious small drones flying around a cluster of USAF bases in the United Kingdom and said RAF Fairford, which is currently hosting B-52 bombers, is seeing them as well. 

Elon Musk, a confidant of President-elect Trump, has a poor opinion of the F-35 fighter and thinks it should give way to new, uncrewed aircraft. As one of the heads of the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, Musk's views could affect upcoming contracts and plans for the fighter, but Trump…

The Department of Defense is eyeing localized quantum sensors as a radical alternative to space-based Global Positioning System satellites in the face of increasing threats to GPS signals needed for precision navigation and timing.   

The Government Accountability Office wants the Air Force to explain who will run bases when wings deploy under the service’s new force generation model along with several other unanswered questions, saying the concept is long on vision but short on details.

B-52 Stratofortresses popped up from the Middle East to North Africa to the Arctic in recent days, as the U.S. Air Force flexed the reach of its bomber fleet. 

Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force David Flosi learned the hard way that managing risk in a chaotic ACE environment is not always easy.

Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Kevin B. Schneider and other Airmen delivered five T-6 Texan trainer aircraft to Vietnam last week—the first U.S. aircraft delivery to the country since the Vietnam War. 

The Chinese air force is accelerating some of its fighter pilot training but likely won't fully modernize until 2030. Tradition and the tempo of graduating aviation academy classes constrains pilot production.

A collection of small drones was spotted flying over three U.S. Air Force bases in England last week—the latest in a worrying series of incursions. In a release, U.S. Air Forces in Europe disclosed that the drones flew over and around RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, and RAF Feltwell from Nov. 20…