As world leaders gathered at Normandy last week to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, it is important to recall that America was not ready for that war. It took two and a half years to generate the combat power necessary to invade ...
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The Air Force’s software tools for tracking pilot skills are decades out-of-date and often rely on subjective assessments, which hinders combat readiness and wastes scarce training resources, a former F-15E fighter pilot said.
The V-22 Osprey fleet will not return to full, unrestricted flight operations until mid-2025, a Pentagon official said, as part of a slow buildup following a deadly crash that killed eight Airmen and a three-month grounding. It will also be around that time that the V-22 Joint ...
The Enterprise Test Vehicles being evaluated by the Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit are chiefly aimed at exploring modular technologies and rapid manufacturing approaches, not necessarily producing a weapon, Pentagon officials said. But the door is open to such an outcome if the program ...
U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander Maj. Gen. John Klein hopes that the mechanisms he stood up to prepare USAFEC for near-peer conflict will continue after he rotates out later this summer.
In the span of roughly eight hours, 37 NATO fighters took off in rapid succession. The one-on-one fighter competition conducted on June 6 was a first for U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFA) and Ramstein Air Base. The pilots did not know who they ...
Hawaii Air National Guard is hosting a large-scale fighter exercise with F-22s, F-35s, F-16s, and A-10s, along with tankers, from May 29 to June 12. In total, 42 aircraft from nine states with 1,060 personnel are participating in Sentry Aloha, a biannual combat training.
Three Airmen received Air Force Global Strike Command’s Gen. Curtis E. LeMay award after averting an in-flight catastrophe aboard a B-52 over Louisiana in 2022.
The first F-15EX—and the first new-type aircraft to be delivered to the Air National Guard before the Active force—arrived at Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore. on June 6. It's the first of 18 that will be flown by the 142nd Wing.