Air

Pacific Bomber Presence

April 30, 2020
A U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer assigned to Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., and F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to Misawa Air Base, Japan, conduct bilateral joint training with Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s off the coast of northern Japan, April...

Flight Ops Continue

April 30, 2020
Senior Airman Michael Dean, 55th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, stands in front of an aircraft after completing scheduled maintenance while wearing a protective cloth mask April 8, 2020.

Preparing For Blastoff

April 30, 2020
A United Launch Alliance barge, known as the RocketShip, delivers Delta IV Heavy boosters April 5, 2020, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The barge offloaded the boosters for an upcoming launch scheduled for later this year.

In Formation

April 30, 2020
The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, honor frontline COVID-19 first responders and essential workers with formation flights over New York City, New Jersey and Philadelphia on April 28,...
The Air Force is spearheading development of the Defense Department’s first hypersonic cruise missile. The service on April 27 reached out to industry to seek input on a “solid rocket-boosted, air-breathing, hypersonic, conventional cruise missile” that can be launched from existing fighters and bombers. Air ...
Air Force Global Strike Command will regularly rotate a small number of bombers to the Pacific and Middle East theaters to maintain a regular deterrence presence and to conduct combat operations as needed, but it will no longer operate out of bases such as al-Udeid ...