The People’s Republic of China is expanding the range of its missiles and aircraft farther and farther beyond its shores, causing the U.S. Air Force to double down on its commitment to agile combat employment and focus on the complex logistics of a potential Indo-Pacific ...
Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Kevin B. Schneider and other Airmen delivered five T-6 Texan trainer aircraft to Vietnam last week—the first U.S. aircraft delivery to the country since the Vietnam War.
REFORPAC, the large-scale exercise in the Pacific planned for summer 2025, will be on a scale unseen by the Air Force in recent memory: nearly 300 aircraft spread across 25 locations.
As the Air Force leans into its reforms to better deter the Chinese military, Chief of Staff David W. Allvin is pitching his ideas at a meeting with his Asian counterparts at the Air Force Forum in Tokyo, which runs Oct. 14-Oct. 16.
Pacific Air Forces will continue bomber deployments to Australia, with regional allies increasingly “welcoming” them amid China's "heavy-handedness." PACAF commander Gen. Kevin Schneider also said that the bombers will work on anti-ship strikes in the theater.
PACAF commander Gen. Kevin Schneider wants the new E-7 Wedgetail "sooner rather than later" and plans on leveraging Australia's E-7s and Japanese E-2s for a smooth transition. Schneider also says air domain awareness should be a layered solution, stressing ground-based capabilities.
With Russia and China ramping up joint military operations in recent months, Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of Pacific Air Forces, said he is keeping a close watch. He and other experts also noted the lessons Beijing can learn from their collaboration and potential limits to ...
The Air Force will flood Airmen and aircraft into the Indo-Pacific next summer for a major exercise that will run for nearly two weeks and coincide with the multinational Talisman Sabre exercise, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said last week.
Three Air Force B-2 stealth bombers arrived at Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley on Aug. 16 to begin a Bomber Task Force deployment expected to last two or three weeks. The aircraft will conduct exercises with the RAAF and likely other nations in the ...
The U.S. Air Force is shifting nine extra F-16 fighters to its base closest to the Demilitarized Zone that splits North and South Korea, creating a so-called "Super Squadron."
F-22A Raptors from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., recently arrived at Kadena Air Base in Japan, bolstering the fifth-generation airpower at the closest U.S. military installation to Taiwan.
U.S. Air Force bombers deployed across the globe this past weekend, as two B-52 Stratofortresses landed at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean on March 22 and two B-1 Lancers landed at Morón Air Base, Spain, on March 24. The pair of ...