Despite a public plea by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III to open up lines of communications following a dangerous near-miss between American and Chinese jets last month, the U.S. and China have not held top-level military conversations recently, and there are no set ...
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A B-1B Lancer from Ellsworth Air Force Base flew from South Dakota to the Pacific and back earlier this week, integrating with Japanese F-15s and linking up with a KC-135 tanker along the way. The long-duration, roundtrip mission, referred to as a CONUS-to-CONUS mission, involved one ...
The growing reach of China's long-range missiles means the Air Force may have to give up on traditional cargo and tanker aircraft and move toward purpose-built stealth designs for these missions, Secretary Frank Kendall said on a Council of Foreign Relations webinar. He also said ...
The Air Force's new HH-60W Jolly Green II combat rescue helicopter has made its first two combat saves during its inaugural combat deployment, but the service isn't giving many details about the action which led to the combat recovery of the injured personnel, whose lives ...
Northrop Grumman has revealed that it is developing a new radar for the F-35 fighter, called the AN/APG-85. The new radar will be installed on some F-35s in Lot 17, options for which were set by Lockheed Martin and the Joint Program Office last week. ...
Commercial flights across the United States were briefly grounded after the Federal Aviation Administration’s Notice to Air Missions system (NOTAM), used for relaying key data to pilots, failed in the early morning of Jan. 11. But the Air Force said its military systems were not ...
When the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meets in Germany late this month, provision of fighters to Ukraine will be a key topic of discussion, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and retired Gen. Tod D. Wolters said. While he thinks it should happen, he sees the ...
Two dozen C-17s took off from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., on Jan. 5, in the Air Force’s largest ever launch of the aircraft from a single base. The impressive display of airpower, which included an elephant walk of the Globemaster IIIs and a flyover above ...
The first F-35A fitted with the Tech Refresh 3 update flew Jan. 6 from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., the Joint Program Office announced. The TR-3 suite of more powerful processors and memory is the enabling upgrade on which most of the planned F-35 Block ...
