A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper came close to being shot down by a German warship in a friendly fire incident over the Red Sea on Feb. 27, U.S. officials told Air & Space Forces Magazine. The USAF MQ-9 was targeted by the German frigate ...
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The head of U.S. Strategic Command stressed the importance of producing B-21 bombers at a quicker rate and expressed interest in acquiring more than the planned 100 aircraft in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Feb. 29. “The limited production rate of the B-21 is ...
As the Air Force pursues Agile Combat Employment, biocement could let the service build or expand airfields in days, without the heavy equipment involved in traditional construction.
The Air Force’s cloud-based data lakes are becoming “data swamps,” clogged by huge troves of unstructured, uncatalogued, and therefore effectively unusable data, dumped in there by service elements overwhelmed by the huge task of curating, cutting and cataloging it. That was the message from new ...
The Air Force will have to rethink how it views the concept of air superiority in the future, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said on Feb. 28. “It’s cost prohibitive to be able to say that we're going to build enough Air ...
While some of the Air Force's newly announced changes will happen quickly, it may take most of Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin's tenure in the job to accomplish the rest, he said in a Brookings Institution event Feb. 28.
Engineers and first responders are assessing damage at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force after an early-morning tornado struck the base on Feb. 28.
U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers and Swedish Gripen fighters conducted joint training as the last roadblock to Sweden's NATO membership was removed.
The Air Force’s new trainer jet, the T-7A Red Hawk, notched another milestone in the test process when it completed a month-long extreme weather trial at the McKinley Climatic Lab at Eglin Air Force Bas, Fla. on Feb. 23.