Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said April 6, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump about the war.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on April 4 that Russia is running out of time to convince the Trump administration that it is serious about striking a peace deal with Ukraine and not just playing for time.
One person was killed April 6 as Russian air strikes hit the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, while the death toll from the April 4 deadly attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih continued to rise.
The Air Force Academy superintendent is proposing to cut civilian faculty positions without hiring uniformed instructors to replace them—a change that could eliminate some majors. The proposal floated in internal meetings and communications is intended to increase the percentage of military service members among the faculty up to 80 percent and bring the percentage of civilians down from about 37 percent to 20 percent.
A drone attack that killed three U.S. Soldiers in Jordan last year was most likely preventable, according to a military investigation that determined that numerous failures—from complacency and indecisiveness to outright negligence—contributed to the worst assault on American troops since the fall of Afghanistan.
The Pentagon is looking beyond traditional defense contractors to tackle one of the most ambitious components of its proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense system: space-based interceptors that would destroy enemy missiles in flight.
The Air Force says it’s again allowing Airmen and civilian employees to put their preferred personal pronouns in their email signatures and correspondence, backtracking on a Trump administration restriction after recognizing that a law exists protecting the practice.
The Black Arrow, also known as the Small Cruise Missile, has completed a guided flight test from an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship, the weapon’s manufacturer, Leidos, has confirmed. The Black Arrow, which is intended to carry a range of different payloads, and not just a kinetic warhead, arrives at a time when the Pentagon is looking at harnessing the potential of lower-cost weapons that can be readily produced at scale to meet the likely demands of future conflicts.
After a loss on the Air Force’s F-47 program and its withdrawal from the Navy’s F/A-XX competition, Lockheed Martin is facing questions from Wall Street about how the company responsible for both of the U.S. military’s fifth-generation fighters now finds itself shut out of the sixth-generation fighter market.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Panama next week, the second senior U.S. official to visit the country in as many months, as President Donald Trump says America is “reclaiming” the country’s eponymous canal.
In this “Rendezvous” episode of the Aerospace Advantage podcast, we discuss top Air Force and Space Force developments in Washington, D.C., and beyond. We review key themes from Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman’s visit with the Mitchell Institute last week, as well as a broad range of spacepower topics, from Chinese “dogfighting” in space to the new lunar landing to new launch contracts and the future of Space Development Agency contracts. On the Air Force side, we discuss how the recent F-47 NGAD announcement will shape the future of airpower and how that program could impact the service’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft, F-35, and B-21 programs, and more.
Six members of Ukraine’s parliament met with U.S. lawmakers and stakeholders in Washington this week to spotlight the dire need for sustained military support and intelligence-sharing between the nations during the Trump administration’s ongoing negotiations with their government and Russia to end the war.
“First shot, first kill” is a phrase famously associated with the F-22 Raptor. The Raptor’s speed, maneuverability, and attacking prowess are the pride of the U.S. Air Force. ... The Raptor’s qualities were on display to all when the Air Force in January staged an F-22 “elephant walk” as large as any in the service’s history.
