The first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with ballast, rather than an advanced radar in its nose, flew an acceptance flight the last week of February, Air & Space Forces Magazine has learned. F-35s will arrive without radars at Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps bases ...
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A recent supersonic test flight conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio could pave the way for affordable, maneuverable hypersonic missiles by leveraging advances in a decades-old technology. The Air Force Research Laboratory and Ursa Major, an aerospace and defense company, achieved supersonic flight ...
High-end combat against a capable, integrated air defense system has always entailed risk, and historically, that risk has translated into significant aircraft losses. What is remarkable in the current Iran war is not that a U.S. F-35 was hit—but that combat losses to date have ...
Air Force acquisition officials are on the hunt for small, easily portable, one-way attack drones to arm special forces operators, so they can launch first-person-view precision strike missions like Ukraine has used to great effect against Russia.
The Air Force is using some of its newest bombs and some of its oldest planes to strike very different targets in the Strait of Hormuz during Operation Epic Fury—a high-tech bunker-busting bomb and the famous A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane. Chairman of the Joint ...
An Air Force F-35A fighter was forced to conduct an emergency landing at a U.S. air base after being struck by ground fire during a combat mission over Iran on March 19, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
For nearly five minutes, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described in detail how the bomber fleet is playing a key role in Operation Epic Fury and how the Airmen who operate that fleet do their jobs.
The U.S. military struck a $4.5 billion deal last month to increase the rate of production on its new B-21 bomber. Now officials are considering whether they will open up an entire second production line to go even faster in constructing the sixth-generation stealth Raider.
Russian warplanes are flying near the U.S. and Canada at a rate “above historical norms,” the head of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD said this week in written and verbal testimony to Congress.