U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said this week that President-elect Donald Trump is expected to move U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville as one of his first moves in office.
China's much-anticipated J-35A stealth aircraft, centerpiece of this week's Zhuhai air show, has been more than a decade in the making, but experts say little is known about its capabilities.
An operational U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker equipped with an artificial intelligence (AI) driven “copilot” from autonomous flight technology company Merlin is set to take to the skies next year. The forthcoming flight testing is an important new step down a path that could lead to pilot-optional KC-135s.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is nominating former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. He also said he had chosen former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel and his longtime friend Steven Witkoff to be a special envoy to the Middle East.
A multiple-missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels on two U.S. warships has been thwarted, the Pentagon said. The attack followed a series of airstrikes made by U.S. Central Command against Houthi weapons storage bases in Yemen.
In this episode, Heather “Lucky” Penney chats with members of the Mitchell Institute team about the what the 2024 election results will mean for spacepower and airpower. The vector set by Donald Trump and members of Congress in the coming years will shape options available to leaders for decades into the future.
The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership. If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities,” according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) must press forward with the multinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) to deliver a next-generation fighter jet if it wants to take a stand against the “proliferation” of Russian and Chinese stealth aircraft, according to the head of the service.
The Biden administration said Nov. 12 that Israel has made some good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza and will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if the situation had not improved.
Maj. Gen. William Zana, the only guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final guard shift on the night he retired.
