At today’s House Armed Services Air and Land panel hearing, Army officials plan to rebut the Air Force drive to become executive agent for unmanned aerial vehicles that fly at 3,500 feet or higher, reports The Hill. The Air Force...

Pilots of the 18th Fighter Squadron at Eielson AFB, Alaska, are learning their new trade—serving as antagonists for “blue” forces in Red Flag-Alaska—from the veteran “Red” pilots of the 64th Aggressor Squadron. Members of the 64th from Nellis AFB, Nev.,...

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, told defense reporters this week that weapons made in Iran now are making their way to Afghanistan. Pace said that it’s not clear in Afghanistan “which Iranian...

Airmen of the 36th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam, from Barksdale AFB, La. have achieved an 84.2 percent mission capable rate with their B-52 bombers. SMSgt. Don Perrien reports that Barksdale officials had anticipated only making...

An Air Force aircraft maintenance officer is one of USAF’s in-lieu-of-a-soldier airmen who are working in Southwest Asia outside his expertise—way out. First Lt. Jacob Sullivan, with the 319th Maintenance Group at Grand Forks, N.D., is running an Army Tactical...

Airmen of Air Force Reserve Command’s 916th Air Refueling Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., got one of their KC-135 tankers off the ground in less than an hour after receiving a 7 a.m. call for help from an active...

Air University is hosting a counterinsurgency symposium next week at Maxwell AFB, Ala., to generate additional perspectives on the issue as the Air Force grapples with developing its own response to irregular warfare. Earlier this year, Air University gathered subject...

Civic leaders from around Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico gathered at the Clovis (N.M.) Community College Tuesday to relay their support for the take over of the base by Air Force Special Operations Command. The Clovis News Journal...

A new multinational poll indicates that most countries believe the US overplays its hand in attempting to be the world’s policeman. This survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and WorldPublicOpinion.org supports other recent surveys that show the US...

Boeing officials say the company’s Orbital Express system transferred propellant and a battery from one spacecraft to another, “marking industry firsts for the revolutionary system.” The Orbital Express was one of the six spacecraft launched March 8 aboard an Atlas...

The Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass., expects the last of five core Air Force sites—Ramstein AB, Germany—to get the Distributed Common Ground System Integrated Backbone (DIB, for short) by the end of this month. That puts the program...

April 15, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 12 9 21 CAS/Armed Recon 54 46 100 Airlift 130 130 Air refueling 48 48 Total 66 55 178 299 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...