There are more than 100 US troops on the ground in the fight against ISIS for Mosul, Iraq, including air controllers helping to call in strikes. US and coalition aircraft, in the first day of the offensive against ISIS in...
Russian and Syrian aircraft on Tuesday temporarily stopped striking the Syrian city of Aleppo, a move the countries said will allow for humanitarian aid to enter the city. The halt, which began at about 10 a.m. local time, is to...
A US Southern Command task force has moved 480 metric tons of supplies to Haiti since Hurricane Matthew struck Oct. 4, resulting in more than 1,000 deaths. Twenty military aircraft— including C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules aircraft from Dover...
The “amorphous, adaptable, and networked threats” that enable the flow of illicit goods—not the contraband itself—is what keeps US Southern Command chief Adm. Kurt Tidd up at night, he said Tuesday. Speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies...
Lockheed Martin on Monday received a $743 million modification to the low-rate initial production lot nine batch of F-35s, providing additional funding for “diminishing manufacturing and material shortages redesign and development,” the Pentagon announced. Under the contract, 27.9 percent or...
More than a dozen airmen from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 245th Air Traffic Control Squadron at McEntire JNGB, S.C., deployed to Iraq on Oct. 9. The South Carolina controllers are deploying for six months in conjunction with the...
The 15th anniversary of the longest-ever bomber missions illustrates how important the new B-21 is to the Air Force, veterans of that effort said at a Capitol Hill forum Tuesday. Reflecting on the 70-hour B-2 missions that “knocked down the...
In the weeks after 9/11, the B-2 was selected to conduct the opening strikes of Operation Enduring Freedom because Afghanistan did, indeed, have air defenses, if not the best, retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula, dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute, said...
The Air Force must be more transparent in its progress reports on the modernization of GPS capabilities, according to the Government Accountability Office. The quarterly reports were required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 to brief...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Tuesday the formal transfer of its Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) system from the design and production stage to a new operational stage under the control of Air Force Space Command. SST’s new design...
