Air

A B-1B Lancer will play the bad guy and try to penetrate U.S. airspace in a large force exercise that will bring together assets and players from four combatant commands, as well as North American Aerospace Defense Command and the Navy’s Harry S. Truman Carrier ...
Two B-1B Lancers on May 29 flew another long-range bomber task force flight to Eastern Europe, integrating with Ukrainian fighter jets and Turkish KC-135s for the first time, as well as with multiple other allied nations. The flight of B-1s from the 28th Bomb Wing ...
The Air Force can't afford to keep the force it has and modernize it, so it must choose new technology over force structure, Brig. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, acting director of the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability, said May 27. Modernization was put off too ...

Photo Bomber

May 27, 2020
B-1B Lancer mechanics from the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron take selfies as a B-1B flies overhead at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, May 21, 2020. The 9th EBS deployed to Guam from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, along with 200...

Trainer Inspection

May 27, 2020
Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett, right, inspects the underside of a T-38 trainer aircraft with flight test engineer 1st Lt. Hannah Myers during a tour of 704th Test Group at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., May 20, 2020....
The Air Force’s fledgling Rapid Sustainment Office plans to triple the number of aircraft using predictive maintenance algorithms in 2020, the service told Air Force Magazine. The Conditions-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) program, which started last year, and related initiatives use sensors and algorithms to collect ...

Space Mission

May 26, 2020
An encapsulated X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is prepared for U.S. Space Force-7 mission. Boeing/courtesy