An F-16 from the USAF Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nev., crashed Monday night about 8:50 p.m. near the end of the runway as it came in to land at the Tonopah Test Range Airfield, Nev. The pilot ejected safely. It was the second crash of an F-16 on the same day; on Monday an F-16 went down off the Florida coast. The Air Force has not identified the Nellis pilot, who was flying a night training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range.
The rate of building B-21 bombers would speed up if the fiscal 2026 defense budget passes. But it remains unclear how much capacity would be added, and whether the Air Force would simply build the bombers faster, or buy more.
