An Air Force investigation into how the service could piggyback on the commercial industry’s broadband Internet satellites for better communication is moving forward to include two key combat platforms—the AC-130 and KC-135. The experimentation and prototyping effort, known as Defense Experimentation Using the Commercial Space ...
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Air Force Global Strike Command needs to beef up its planning and advocacy for its future intercontinental ballistic missile and long-range bomber if it wants to successfully modernize its enterprise in an era of financial and technological challenges, the nonprofit research organization RAND Corp. said ...
The Hawaii Air National Guard will stand up a new space control squadron beginning next summer. The Air Force approved Barking Sands Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai as the preferred alternative for an Air National Guard Space Control Squadron, bringing 88 new Guard positions, ...
The Air Force is encouraging senior leaders to be forthcoming with their own personal stories to connect with airmen and ensure discussion continues, following the recent stand-down implemented to focus on mental health amid a dramatic increase in suicides. “Us, as leaders, need to open ...
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., will display an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter starting in December.
The name “Frank Luke” has been bestowed on not one, but two air bases. No other American airman can claim that distinction. Ford Island AS, Hawaii, became Luke Field in 1919. In 1941 the Army shifted the name to a...
Airmen from Hill AFB, Utah, recently completed their first six-month combat deployment with the F-35. On Nov. 1, airmen from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings returned home to Hill after moving to Al Dhafra AB, United Arab Emirates. Joint Strike Fighters and airmen deployed ...
The Air Force is planning experiments and briefing senior leaders on progress toward its “arsenal plane” idea, looking at multiple aircraft options to fly with a large weapons cache to back up strike assets. An arsenal plane would be a multi-engine platform that accompanies remotely ...
Two Air Force pilots on Sep. 27 flew F-35Bs from the amphibious assault ship USS America in the Eastern Pacific, marking the first time airmen flew the Marine Corps variant of the Joint Strike Fighter at sea.