The US targeted members of the al-Shabaab terror group in a Nov. 30 airstrike near Jilib, Somalia, US Africa Command said in a press release the same day. AFRICOM did not say whether anyone died in the strike, but noted it does not believe any ...
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The Air Force’s Space Fence finished its initial operational test and evaluation phase in November, kicking off a trial period to see if the system works well enough to accept it for regular operations. Space Fence’s first increment is neither in space nor a physical ...
The new numbered Air Force will lead operations in the information domain.
An exclusive interview with Matthew Donovan, as Acting Secretary of the Air Force.
Thinking past the F-35.
All-domain command and control cannot be reduced to high-function parallel play. The combined threat of attack from every direction will be necessary in future conflicts to ensure adversaries, and not the US and its allies, are the ones rocked back on their heels. This is ...
F-22 development; Global Lightning project; USAF’s spending aims; and more ...
The Air Force is reviewing how Travis AFB, Calif., handled a recent power outage to determine how it can better prepare a base that is cut off from its electrical source, the service’s head of installations said. Travis AFB, Calif., suffered a power outage on ...
Air Force Global Strike Command’s second decade in business will be a busy one. Created in 2009 as Strategic Air Command’s post-Cold War replacement, Global Strike oversees the bulk of the Pentagon’s nuclear weapons and provides bomber aircraft for combat operations and deterrence flights around ...
