The 500th F-35A built for the U.S. Air Force is on duty with the Florida Air National Guard, the service and contractor Lockheed Martin confirmed Aug. 21. It's the latest big number for the F-35 fleet. In September 2024, Lockheed delivered its 1,000th F-35 fighter, ...
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Airmen with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron captured videos emerging into the eye of Hurricane Erin and dropping new weather research technology.
The Air Force is conducting another round of market research for its proposed next-generation tanker, specifically asking industry for ideas on the airframe—a wide-open question with major implications for the future fleet.
Moving 10 tankers to refuel six C-17s en route to a paratrooper drop in Australia took nearly 24 hours of work by a team of planners at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
The Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile will have its first test flight this fall, a yearlong delay from previous plans, according to Air Force budget documents. A possible plan to delete some test flights to save time and money seems to have been dropped.
A new startup has a contract with the Air Force’s innovation arm and a prototype to test its new concept: a network of “flying pickup truck” drones to solve the problem of logistics in the Pacific.
An independent federal study will assess whether military aviators are at higher risk of cancer than the general public under a new law enacted this week. President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Aviator Cancer Examination Study Act into law Aug. 14.
B-2 bombers and F-35 fighters flew overhead as Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Aug. 15.
The Air Force and Space Force budgets call for nearly $2.3 billion in spending cuts in 2026, including funding for more than 5,700 full-time civilian jobs, linked to the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, an Air & Space Forces Magazine analysis has found.
