Assessments of six North Korean Hwaseong-13 mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (SS-N-08 is its western designation) seen in parades in April 2012 and July 2013 were derided as fakes or mockups, but a new analysis by veteran North Korea analysts suggest...

The collapse of the right main landing gear caused an F-16C to skid off the runway and crash immediately after landing on July 16 at Osan AB, South Korea, announced Air Combat Command. Several seconds after departing the runway, the...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and a bipartisan group of senators on Nov. 6 announced the launch of a two-week campaign pushing for legislation that would limit military leaders’ legal authority in cases of sexual assault. The group is advocating for...

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a senior National Security Council staffer, praised international weapons inspectors for their efforts to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons capabilities. In a White House blog post, Sherwood-Randall noted that just a few months ago Syria had one of the...

Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter assured the nearly 3,000 recently furloughed civilian employees at Hill AFB, Utah, that despite the drawdown in Afghanistan, the base will continue to play a “big part” in the Defense Department’s future. “You will host...

The first class of firefighters from the Afghan Air Force and the Afghan National Army graduated from a NATO-led fire instructor course—the first of its kind in Afghanistan—during an Oct. 31 ceremony at Kabul International Airport. The 13 students underwent...

Members of the village of Helmdon and the 422nd Air Base Group at RAF Croughton, United Kingdom, recently honored the crew of the “Sharon Belle,” a World War II bomber crew whose B-17 fatally crashed in 1943. On Nov. 30,...

AFA President Craig McKinley and Daniel Ginsberg, assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs, have signed a memorandum of understanding giving AFA’s Wounded Airman Program the ability to directly support airmen and their families. The MOU...