Robins Air Force Base, Ga., kicked off a new era late last month when its first E-11A arrived. Though the E-11A has been in combat service since 2008, its arrival at Robins is a milestone in the base’s transition from the retiring E-8 JSTARS aircraft ...
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Air Force leaders in charge of the nation's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber fleet say they have been working behind the scenes to keep the aircraft ready—even as a “safety pause” on flying approaches six months in length. A quarter-century after its introduction, the B-2 program ...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall insists the service needs to modernize rapidly to face the threat of China. But modernization does not just mean fielding new aircraft, Kendall and other service leaders argue—the Air Force also needs to retire its aging airplanes. “The truth is ...
Ten A-10s and dozens of Airmen deployed to Europe this week in support of the Army-led DEFENDER 2023 exercise, and nine more mobility aircraft will do the same in the coming weeks. The A-10s, from the Air Force Reserve’s 442nd Fighter Wing at Whiteman Air Force ...
An Air Force F-22 Raptor returned to duty in Alaska on May 4 five years after the stealth fighter suffered extensive damage from a botched takeoff on April 13, 2018. With only 186 Raptors in the entire Air Force inventory, getting just one of the ...
A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter crashed near Osan Air Base, South Korea, over the weekend, with local media outlets publishing dramatic videos of the fiery wreck.
It’s come a few decades later than perhaps it should have, but the U.S. is on the precipice of sweeping and much-needed modernization for its nuclear arsenal, the Air Force's top boss for strategic forces said May 4. The Pentagon is projecting an investment of ...
The sale to commercial entities of the 3.3-3.45 gigahertz portion of the electromagnetic spectrum—called the S-band—would cost the Department of the Air Force well upwards of $2 billion, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman ...
Air Force aircraft, including the A-10 Warthog, MC-130J Commando II, and MQ-9 Reaper, practiced austere operations on a Wyoming highway as part of the push towards Agile Combat Employment.