A government watchdog said the Air Force’s proposal to divest 32 of its F-22 fighter jets leaves too many questions unanswered for Congress to make a well-informed decision.
After more than 40 years of performing around the world, the Air Force A-10C Demonstration Team announced that 2024 will be its final season.
Nearly 48 years after the A-10 Thunderbolt II first arrived at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., the base started its long transition to a new mission set by retiring its first attack jet. Built in 1982, tail number 82-648 taxied out of the 354th Fighter ...
The Senate overwhelmingly passed its version of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act late July 27 in a bipartisan 86-11 vote. But the House version of the bill was passed largely on party lines, and the two chambers must resolve their differences before the annual ...
A record investment in research and development by the Department of the Air Force will help the United States win the long-term technology race with China, even while shrinking the fleet size before a possible mid-decade Taiwan contingency, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said May ...
The Air Force may be planning to divest more than 1,400 airplanes over the next five years, with a net reduction of more than 1,000 after new ones are added in, a Nebraska Senator said in a budget hearing April 7. The Air Force would ...
The Air Force is asking Congress to retire 150 airplanes in its fiscal 2023 budget, including 33 of its advanced F-22 fighters, but it would also hand off 100 MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft to another government agency and buy more than 82 other new ...