Senior Air Force officials revealed during AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference just how profoundly the potential for conflict with an increasingly aggressive China has come to dominate internal counsels and the service’s strategic plans.
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Air Mobility Command has cleared the KC-46 Pegasus tanker for worldwide deployments and combatant commander taskings, including in combat, commander Gen. Mike Minihan announced at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference.
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer is teaming with L3Harris Technologies to further develop its KC-390 Millennium platform as an “Agile Tanker” for the Air Force’s agile combat employment concept. The two companies said they have signed an agreement to expand the KC-390’s capabilities, including advanced boom ...
As the Air Force prepares to declare initial operating capability for the HH-60W Jolly Green II, the service's new combat search and rescue helicopter, the manufacturer is pushing back on the idea that its helicopter isn't suited to combat in the Pacific—and on planned cuts ...
Lockheed Martin will soon begin a campaign of flight tests of its “Speed Racer” uncrewed air vehicle, aiming for an expendable, modular vehicle that will cooperate with the F-35 and cost well below $2 million a copy, said the director of the company's Skunk Works ...
B-1B bombers from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, were everywhere from south of the equator to just outside the Arctic circle last week as they flew missions and training exercises across the Western hemisphere.
Flyovers of current and historic Air Force aircraft and the Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team will highlight the service’s 75th Anniversary Tattoo at Audi Field, Washington D.C. on Sept. 15, the Pentagon announced.
Pentagon acquisition boss William LaPlante is optimistic that the pause in new F-35 fighter deliveries will not drag on for long—but the problem does highlight a “constant” issue with the supply chain, he said. The halt in deliveries came after Honeywell, a subcontractor for the ...
Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. Gen. James C. “Jim” Slife extolled the benefits of the service’s new force generation and deployment model when it comes to explaining and managing risk for AFSOC—and warned against the dangers of centralization for the same reason. Speaking ...