With the US on the cusp of going down to about 1,500 deployed nuclear warheads and the nuclear-capable bomber force’s future in doubt, the nation is best served by shifting to a dyad of submarine-launched ballistic missiles and ICBMs, argue...

According to InsideDefense.com, the Office of the Secretary of Defense is considering, as part of its Fiscal 2011 budget deliberations, pumping billions of extra dollars into the F-35 stealth fighter program, extending the aircraft’s development by at least one year,...

New KC-X tanker aircraft in the Air Force’s inventory today would make the enormous task of surging more US troops into Afghanistan by mid 2010 and then sustaining the entire force there easier, says USAF Gen. Duncan McNabb, US Transportation...

Effective Jan. 1, completion of the resident Air Force senior noncommissioned officer academy or a sister service equivalent will be the requirement for promotion to senior master sergeant, announced Air Force Personnel Center officials Wednesday. This policy change will supersede...

Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s director of operational test and evaluation, accompanied Maj. Gen. Stephen Sargeant, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center boss, on a test sortie of one of the Air Force’s newly upgraded C-5M transport aircraft Dec. 7...

The time it takes to get a badly wounded servicemember in Afghanistan to a hospital for treatment has decreased significantly in the past year. USA Today reported Wednesday that the time has been slashed from 100 minutes to just 42...

Raytheon announced Wednesday that it has demonstrated, once again, the ability to attack surface targets with the AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile that is in the inventory of the Air Force and Navy. During this test, which occurred Sept. 23 in...

About a dozen members of the 642nd Combat Sustainment Group at Robins AFB, Ga., are redesigning the flightline air conditioners that are critical to aircraft operations in the high temperatures encountered in Afghanistan and Iraq. “The No. 1 complaint of...

The US Customs and Border Protection on Dec. 7 took delivery of its first Guardian remotely piloted aircraft at a ceremony in Palmdale, Calif. This aircraft, which CBP’s Air and Marine branch is pursuing in cooperation with the Coast Guard,...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Dec. 8, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 27 9 36 16,251 CAS/Armed Recon 20 61 81 33,218 Airlift 147 147 46,409 Air refueling 46 46 16,251 Total 310 112,129 OIF=Operation Iraqi...