Long-Range Drones Target Battlefield Delivery By Greg Hadley A new startup has a contract with the Air Force’s innovation arm and a prototype to test its new concept: a network of “flying pickup truck” drones to solve the problem of...
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How one pilot’s unblinking focus on technology, tactics, and preparation helped turn the tide in the air war over North Vietnam. Operation Linebacker was conceived and promulgated from discussions at the bar at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand,...
Sustained Munitions Production and Lower-Cost Designs By John A. Tirpak Munitions have long been a bill-payer in the Air Force budget—staples of warfare that, in peacetime, can be neglected or shortchanged to pay for more pressing needs—but after more than...
Why retiring the B-1 too soon could undermine U.S. security. The U.S. Air Force plans to start retiring the B-1 Lancer fleet to make room for the new, sixth-generation B-21 Raider. But the Air Force is planning to do that...
There are no options over water. And the farther out you go, the longer it takes to get back. The bulk carrier Port Kyushu stretches the length of two football fields, but it looked like a toy against the vast, dark...
The Pentagon plans to use U.S. Air Force C-17s and C-130s to deport 5,400 people currently detained by Customs and Border Protection, officials announced Jan. 22, the first act in President Donald Trump’s sweeping promise to crack down on undocumented immigrants and increase border security.
All eight of the Air Force’s premier firefighting aircraft will fly from across the western U.S. to southern California this weekend to help fight the wildfires that have been scorching Los Angeles since Jan. 7. U.S. Northern Command has activated eight C-130 transport planes equipped ...
The sturdy, flexible C-130 Hercules took its first flight on Aug. 23, 1954, launching a 70-year career that has saved lives and helped fight wars from nearly every corner of the Earth.
Project Magellan is the latest maximum endurance operation (MEO), the term for long-haul missions, meant to test Airmen as transport and tanker crews under Air Mobility Command.
Two B-52 bombers from Barksdale Air Force Base flew a mission in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility last week, a relatively rare trip below the equator. The sortie comes on the heels of SOUTHCOM’s three-week multilateral exercise, Resolute Sentinel, which wrapped up June ...
Air Force crews flew over France this week in C-130 transport planes decked out in black-and-white “invasion stripes” for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Moroccan Royal Air Force fighters escorted a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress on May 31 to help mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S.'s largest annual exercise in Africa. U.S. Africa Command's African Lion featured more than 8,100 participants from 27 nations, running from April ...
