The Alabama Air National Guard’s 187th Fighter Wing received its first F-35 fighters last week, becoming the third Guard unit to get the fifth-generation aircraft and adding a new chapter in the wing’s storied legacy. Nicknamed the “Red Tails” in honor of the trailblazing Tuskegee Airmen, ...
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KC-135 Stratotankers from the 168th Wing line up in 10 degrees-below-zero weather to form a polar bear formation at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Dec. 2, 2023. The polar bear charge was a demonstration of the wing’s ability to rapidly...
Air Force Special Operations Command paid tribute to the eight Airmen killed in a CV-22 Osprey crash off the coast of Japan last month. The command posted a brief biography of each Airman on its Facebook page on Dec. 7, the latest in a line ...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin selected the service’s next senior enlisted leader Dec. 11, the service announced—Chief Master Sgt. David A. Flosi will become the 20th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force when current CMSAF JoAnne Bass departs.
A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter crashed off the coast of South Korea on Dec. 11. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and is in stable condition. This is the second crash of an F-16 assigned to Kunsan this year. On May 6, a jet ...
Lawmakers want very tight oversight of the Next Generation Air Dominance fighters and Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones, demanding detailed six-month updates on their progress across a myriad of component categories, according to the 2024 compromise National Defense Authorization Act.
Senate and House leaders unveiled their compromise conference report for the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act on Dec. 7—and the annual defense policy bill is poised to pump the brakes on the Air Force’s plans to retire dozens of F-15E, F-16, and F-22 fighters in the ...
The U.S. military announced Dec. 6 that it is standing down its entire fleet of Ospreys after eight Airmen were killed in a crash. The Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy are all standing down Osprey operations after an Air Force Special Operations Command CV-22 ...
Three types of U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft participated in air-to-air refueling with a commercial tanker for the first time last month, coinciding with a bilateral exercise between the U.S. and Singapore that concluded Nov. 24.
