Russia’s war in Ukraine is having far-reaching consequences for American forces in the Middle East, the top Air Force commander for the region said June 21. The aggressive behavior by Russian planes in Syria toward American aircraft may be part of an effort by Moscow to ...
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House lawmakers approved three amendments aimed at curtailing Air Force plans to retire aging fighter jets as both the Senate and House began marking up their respective drafts of the 2024 defense authorization bill.
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Two Air Force B-52s made history with the bomber’s first ever landing in Indonesia on June 19—a gesture of partnership with the strategically important southeast Asian country.
A pair U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers kicked off a historic deployment this week, touching down in Sweden on June 19. “This is the first time U.S. bombers have landed in Sweden,” a spokesperson for U.S. Air Forces in Europe told Air & Space Forces ...
Air Force student pilots had their first F-22 training flights out of Joint Base Langley-Eustis earlier this month, the culmination of four years of work transferring the F-22 schoolhouse to the Virginia base from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.
An Air Force fighter squadron that first flew in World War II officially returned to duty June 15 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., where the squadron will be the first of three to fly F-35s. Lt. Col. Michael Powell, the commander of the newly-reactivated ...
The Air Force’s request for funding for the Next Generation Air Dominance program is slashed nearly a third—some $550 million—in the House Armed Services Committee chairman's mark of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. But while the amount of the reduction roughly matches what the ...
Four B-52 Stratofortresses and more than 200 Airmen arrived at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, this week to kick off another Bomber Task Force deployment in the Indo-Pacific. The B-52s, from the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., arrived June 12 and June ...