U.S. Air Forces in Europe is testing more uses for drones to extend its Arctic surveillance, emphasizing that while sharing information might be “the easiest and cheapest” option, it’s far from enough, its leader said.
Russian aircraft have encroached on the Alaska air defense indication zone (ADIZ) four times in the last week, the head of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command noted Sept. 17, as he said he wants to ramp up his command’s training and monitoring 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 ...
Two B-52 bombers from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., flew to and from Europe in recent days, taking part in a training mission along the way with more than two dozen fighters, tankers, and other assets from six other NATO allies over Poland, aimed at ...
The U.S. is pushing to expand the production of key munitions for the Ukrainian military, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said. “From an industrial base perspective, it’s largely been a battle of attrition,” William A. LaPlante, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, told ...
The U.S. and Ukraine’s allies must step up their contribution to Ukraine’s air defense from Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sept. 6, addressing a meeting of the regular Ukraine Defense Contact Group held at Ramstein Air Base, Germany for the first time.
The head of U.S. Space Command hopes the next time China launches a rocket that leaves behind long-lived space debris, Beijing will give Washington a heads-up, rather than leaving the U.S. to discover the orbital mess on its own.
China and Russia have been monitoring U.S. efforts to protect its space assets and are trying to devise ways to counter them, to include a potential large-scale attack, the Space Force’s No. 2 officer said Aug. 28.
The U.S. Air Force worked with Denmark and Norway to reprogram the EW systems on the F-16s those countries and the Netherlands are providing to Ukraine. The move is expected to help counter the threat from Russia.
Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, head of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, called for greater domain awareness in the Arctic in the wake of recent approaches to North America by Chinese and Russian bombers.
The U.S. is currently “ill-equipped” to manage nuclear escalation scenarios in the Indo-Pacific with China, both in the current security environment and in a potential conflict, experts argue in a new report.
The first F-16s have arrived in Ukraine, finally giving Kyiv the venerable fourth-generation multirole fighter it has sought for over a year, according to multiple reports.