A B-52 maintainer at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., designed a new tool that shaves hours off the phase inspection process, delighting his fellow knuckle busters.
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More than 90 brand-new F-35s, many in storage since last fall, can be delivered now that a “truncated” version of the Tech Refresh 3 software has been approved for use.
With just 19 jets, the Air Force C-21 transport fleet is busier than ever moving VIPs, wounded troops, and urgently needed cargo in a hurry.
With the Air Force's fighter plans in flux—the Next-Generation Air Dominance program’s future in doubt and the F-22 potentially being extended—Collaborative Combat Aircraft autonomous drones will be all the more important for restoring capacity to the fleet, the head of Air Combat Command said July ...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg unveiled new plans July 10 to enhance the alliance's air and missile defense with combat-ready forces and an additional ballistic missile defense system.
Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, head of Air Combat Command, wants to keep the 32 F-22 Block 20 Raptors the Air Force has been trying to divest, saying that even without upgrades, they’d be valuable in a fight.
Two of the U.S. Air Force’s three bases in Japan got new commanders on July 9 and the outgoing head of U.S. Forces Japan and the 5th Air Force warned of “increasingly aggressive” adversaries, ahead of major force changes.
Much-anticipated F-16 fighters have started being delivered to Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed July 10 at the NATO Public Forum held in Washington, D.C. While Blinken did not reveal how many fighters will be included in the initial batch, a joint statement from ...
The F-15E Strike Eagle that downed an Iraqi helicopter with a laser-guided bomb in 1991 is still flying and just surpassed 15,000 flight hours during a deployment to the Middle East.