F-22s will make their inaugural deployment to Europe “very soon,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced at a Pentagon press conference Monday. The deployment is being made “to support combatant commander requirements under the European Reassurance Initiative,” she said,...

French President Francois Hollande on Aug. 24 presented the Legion of Honor to the three Americans and one British citizen who thwarted a potential terrorist attack aboard a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris. Hollande said the men’s bravery “saved...

A1C Spencer Stone, the airman credited with stopping a terrorist attack on a high-speed train in France, will be nominated for the Airman’s Medal, the service’s highest medal for non-combat action. Stone’s unit, the 65th Air Base Group at Lajes...

The Air Force could buy Long-Range Strike Bombers for “25 years or so” and the aircraft will eventually replace the B-1 and B-52, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Monday. Commenting on a new Bomber Roadmap, which he said...

The Air Force will be forced to delay the “new starts” of almost 50 programs if Congress does not pass a budget this year, and instead passes a continuing resolution, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said in an Aug....

Tensions on the Korean peninsula have not prompted any significant changes in the Air Force’s Pacific posture, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh reported Monday at a Pentagon press conference. Welsh noted that three B-2 bombers deployed to Guam for...

The Air Force is studying the possible operational risks if Boeing is unable to make a ?contractual deadline of delivering 18 KC-46A tankers in August of 2017 following further delays in the first flight of the aircraft. Boeing delayed the...

Now is not the time to revisit the debate over which service should have executive agency over remotely piloted aircraft, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Monday. The Army and Navy are stepping up to provide 30 additional combat...

Testers at Edwards AFB, Calif., conducted flow-rate surge trials with the legacy KC-135 and KC-10 tankers to establish baseline data for evaluation of the new KC-46A Pegasus earlier this month. “We know that the KC-10 and KC-135 don’t cause damage...

Air Force and industry technicians installed new, reengineered wings on the 100th A-10C as part of the Enhanced Wing Assembly Program on the Ogden Air Logistics Complex line at Hill AFB, Utah, Aug 20. “The first A-10 took over a...

Airmen and A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from the 303rd Fighter Squadron, 442nd Fighter Wing at Whiteman AFB, Mo., deployed to Estonia as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve. Eight Warthogs and about 170 airmen arrived at Amari Air Base in Estonia on...