The city commission of Valparaiso, Fla., has voted unanimously to not endorse a resolution being drafted by the local communities around Eglin Air Force Base that would adopt recommendations of the Pentagon-sponsored joint land use study (JLUS) issued in June....
If Stephen Trimble of Flight Global magazine is correct, the Air Force and Navy are about to reunite over the unmanned combat air vehicle. Trimble reported Tuesday at his DEW Line blog that the Air Force and Navy are discussing...
Colombia and the US may be close to concluding an agreement under which the US military would be allowed to use facilities in Colombia from which to carry out unarmed counter-narcotics surveillance activities in the eastern Pacific. The Miami Herald...
An Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle crashed on Thursday in central Iraq at approximately 7:50 a.m. Baghdad time, Air Forces Central said in a release. The crash was not due to hostile fire, and there were no reports...
Air Force officials on Aug. 11 dedicated a Minuteman III ICBM that went on permanent display at Peterson AFB, Colo. The missile stands near the base’s north gate. It is meant to honor the missileers of the past 50 years...
Development of the most advanced version of Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle, the Block 40 aircraft, has not slipped to the right as recent press reports have suggested, and its state-of-the-art radar is performing well in flight...
Boeing announced Thursday that its industry team, together with the Missile Defense Agency, on Aug. 10 successfully completed the Airborne Laser’s first in-flight test against an instrumented ballistic missile target. The ABL, a modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft carrying a powerful...
While Pentagon procurement funding is going up slightly and research and development funding remains at a near historic high, the military is not buying enough new hardware fast enough, Todd Harrison, a fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary...
The Air Force’s 887th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron on Aug. 10 formally ended its participation in visitation operations at the theater internment facility at Camp Bucca, Iraq, turning over the mission to the Army. Members of the security forces unit...
Aug. 11, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 25 28 53 9,467 CAS/Armed Recon 0 70 70 21,293 Airlift 150 150 29,111 Air refueling 45 45 10,355 Total 318 70,226 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...