The William Tell competition dates to at least 1954, with a history that may go back to 1949, in the earliest days of the Air Force.
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The U.S. carried out airstrikes against two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and militias they support, the Pentagon announced Oct. 26. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said the “narrowly tailored” strikes were intended to respond to a ...
The Air Force GOPAC program arms senior leaders with historical context and etiquette for meeting key allies and partners overseas.
Pacific Air Forces leaders conducted readiness inspections and spoke about quality of life concerns with Airmen during a sweep of the U.S. Air Force’s two bases in South Korea last week.
The air forces of the U.S., South Korea and Japan held their first ever trilateral aerial exercise Oct. 22. One American B-52 bomber and three U.S. F-16s flew alongside two F-15Ks from the Republic of Korea Air Force, and four F-2s from the Japan Air ...
Earlier this week, South Korean officials and independent expert analysts said the militant group Hamas had likely used North Korean weaponry in its surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, based on images and video evidence. The kinds of weapons allegedly used can make the ...
Following the Department of Defense announcing its new Replicator initiative, lawmakers and experts voiced a range of opinions on the effort’s potential and challenges in a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing Oct. 19.
A U.S. Navy warship in the Red Sea shot down three cruise missiles and several drones on Oct. 19 that were launched by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and potentially heading toward Israel, the Pentagon said. The U.S. military also disclosed that there have been additional drone ...
China’s military is looking to expand its reach around the globe and build up its strategic capabilities, with aggressive conventional and nuclear missile programs, according to a Pentagon report released Oct. 19. Among the new developments noted in the updated annual China Military Power Report, the People’s ...