Daily Report: BMT Finishes Up 1st Airbase Training Range
PLUS: Former AFCENT Boss Reflects on Epic Fury
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Former AFCENT Commander Reflects on Lessons of Epic Fury
Operation Epic Fury marked the U.S. military's largest air campaign in a generation, with strikes on 13,000 targets in Iran before the first in a series of shaky ceasefires began in April. Now, even as hostilities continue to flare up, Lt. Gen. Derek C. France ...
US Space Command Should Always Be Led by a Guardian
General Stephen Whiting took command of U.S. Space Command in January 2024, and if customary three-year tenures hold, his tour would end in January 2027. The question now before the President and Senate is who should follow him? Whoever they choose, it has to be a ...
At Pentagon, Trump Leads 9/11 Commemoration on 25th Anniversary
President Donald Trump and government and military leaders past and present paid tribute to the victims, survivors, and heroes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, marking 25 years since a hijacked plane flew into the building, killing...
Air Force Tests Ground Stations for Commanding CCAs, Eyes Contract Next Summer
The Air Force announced Aug. 13 it recently tested prototypes for a portable ground station for commanding and controlling semi-autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and a spokesperson now says the plan is to award a contract for the effort next summer.
Air Force BMT Puts Finishing Touches on 1st Airbase Training Range—and Plans for More
Under a late summer sun, Air Force basic trainees practice safely rearming a retired F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, with mock AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. Nearby, a bulldozer levels the ground where the rest of this first new airbase training range will ...
GA-ASI’s Uncrewed Combat Aviation Portfolio Answers Call for High-End Warfare Capability
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), the company that introduced the world to unmanned warfare, has systematically transformed its aircraft lineup to address the defining requirements of modern high-technology warfare: range, persistence, payload, survivability, and scale against advanced adversaries. The...
Daily Report: F-16s That Flew on 9/11 to Be Preserved
PLUS: Going Deep on USAF’s Aerial Spray Unit and USSF Taps Texas Site for Radar
AETC Launches Blueprint with AI Training for All Airmen
Strategic guidance from the command in charge of Air Force training lays out a plan to train all Airmen in artificial intelligence and build “Digital Airmen” across the force’s training and education enterprise.
F-16s That Defended Capital on 9/11 Preserved for History
Three F-16s that flew in defense of Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, will be retired and preserved as museum artifacts.
Space Force Taps Texas Site for New Deep Space Radar, Targets Operations in 2030
The Space Force has selected a site in north Texas as the preferred location for the final site of its new Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability, the service announced Sept. 9.
Global Strike ‘Campaign’ Aims to Speed Up B-1, B-52 Maintenance, Parts Supply
One year into a new campaign to boost readiness rates for the B-1B Lancer and B-52H Stratofortress bombers, Air Force Global Strike Command is claiming some early wins and planning to forge ahead with more improvements.
USAF’s Only Aerial Spray Unit Squeezed by Demand, Aging Equipment, Slow Modernization
Over the past few months and peaking in August, crews with the 910th Airlift Wing out of Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, have been running nighttime, low-flying missions to kill a ubiquitous and deadly adversary that’s plagued Americans for centuries—mosquitoes.
Daily Report: A-10, F-15s Damaged by Iranian Strike
PLUS: General Atomics Unveils Wildfire Drone Imagery and Inside the World of Combat Weather Airmen
Iran Damages US A-10, F-15s with Missile Attack on Air Base in Jordan
An Iranian ballistic missile attack on a key U.S. air base in Jordan damaged multiple U.S. warplanes, people familiar with the matter confirmed to Air & Space Forces Magazine.
Space Command Maneuvers Satellites Across Multiple Orbits in New Exercise
U.S. Space Command maneuvered satellites across low-, medium-, and geosynchronous orbits in an exercise early this month, advancing the command’s push to master dynamic operations in space.
General Atomics Offers First Glimpse of Wildfire Drone, Eyed as MQ-9 Successor
General Atomics has unveiled the first renderings of its Wildfire drone, which it plans to pitch for the Air Force’s hunt for a new, low-cost Massed Modular Aircraft.
Combat Weather Airmen Stressed to Their Limits in Army Competition
In the small world of Air Force weather specialists, combat weather specialists are a niche unto themselves, deploying with Army ground units to provide forecasts and, if need be, fight alongside those Soldiers. For Staff Sgt. Francisco Estrada, the hardest part of the job isn’t ...
Hypersonic Aircraft Startup Adding Anduril’s Autonomy Software for 2027 Flight
Startups Anduril Industries and Heremus have agreed to integrate Anduril’s autonomy software onto Hermeus’ hypersonic demonstrator aircraft “Quarterhorse”—uniting two technologies that have drawn keen interest and investment from the Air Force.
Globally Deployed, Combat Proven – All Platforms, All Weapons, One Solution
Today’s armament maintainers are tasked with performing flightline (O-Level) maintenance with an assortment of legacy test sets that greatly limit the ability to quickly and efficiently verify armament system readiness, diagnose failures, and ultimately return the aircraft to full mission...
