WORLD: Counterstrikes in the Middle East; F-16 training for Ukrainian pilots.
National Security
WORLD: B-21 Raider's first flight; Tests begin on T-7A Red Hawk; New cloud-based command and control system.
Recent Chiefs put the Air Force on the right course. Allvin’s mission is to deliver on those promises.
The F-35 Joint Program Office has officially announced plans to issue multiple sole-source contracts to Pratt & Whitney to upgrade the fighter’s F135 engine—a widely expected move after Pentagon officials indicated they would do so earlier this year instead of developing an entirely new engine.
A chaotic series of events in which two ballistic missiles were fired from Yemen toward an American destroyer began with an apparently unrelated act of Somali piracy, the Pentagon said Nov. 27. The disclosure adds a new twist to an increasingly complex security situation in ...
It's urgent the Air Force speed the delivery of new F-16Vs and upgrades to older ones in Taiwan, given the rising provocations by China in the Taiwan Strait, 24 Republican members of Congress wrote in a letter to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
The Air Force’s new Chief of Staff vowed to modernize the service’s capabilities quickly so the USAF can deter the growing challenge from China. In a speech in Hangar Three next to the flight line at Andrews during an unseasonably warm morning, Gen. David W. ...
A new report from a bipartisan commission urges the U.S. to redraw its strategy to deal with not just one, but two nuclear peers, and urges Congress to support an urgently-needed modernization of the nuclear weapons enterprise. The report also said the U.S. can no ...
The Senate is set to consider a measure that would break the massive logjam of general and flag officer nominations in the chamber, after the Senate Rules Committee voted Nov. 14 to report favorably on the resolution from Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Majority Leader Sen. ...
