The Air Force has made good on its plan to switch some fighter/bomber pilots to unmanned aerial vehicles. At least, Associated Press reports that the service says it recently shifted some 120 pilots to UAVs to help keep pace with...

The Air National Guard boss, Lt. Gen. Craig McKinley has no illusions about the state of the Air Guard fighter force, which generally “has always had older equipment than the Air Force,” he told the On Guard in a year-end...

There was another F-15C crackup in midair (see above), but instead of the pilot walking away with a busted shoulder, this one—Maj. James Duricy—was killed. Editor in Chief Robert Dudney recalls that 2002 fatal accident in his January editorial. In...

The Air Force is seeking industry input on a Cyber Control System that would provide automatic alerts to Air Force Cyber (AFCYBER) operators if an adversary nation launches an attack on the US military information infrastructure. The system also would...

The Air Force has been augmenting the Army in Afghanistan in the air as well as on the ground. Buried in an article about an Air Force medic is the fact that USAF medics and HH-60 Pave Hawk combat search...

It was politics as usual in Washington, as President Bush decided he could issue a “pocket veto” of the 2008 defense authorization bill, killing the bill at midnight on Dec. 31, but Congressional leaders claim such a move was illegal....

There’s more to the story of the first deployment of the new C-12 force at Yokota AB, Japan. Stars and Stripes reports that the Yokota airmen that deployed to support the US special operations mission in the Philippines last fall...

Last fall, USAF awarded a $1 billion depot maintenance contract for KC-135 tankers to Boeing, but losing competitor Alabama Aircraft Industries (formerly Pemco Aviation Group) says the Government Accountability Office has sustained at least part of its protest. According to...

According to an Air Combat Command release, the first of USAF’s new regional acquisition centers went online Jan. 1. The San Antonio-base center will handle contracting actions for the southwest region, one of five regional centers USAF intends to establish....

The Center for Strategic and International Studies new “Global Forecast” offers 17 essays on the potential top challenges with security implications for the US in 2008. Leading the pack are essays featuring Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, but the forecast also...

Dec. 27,29-31, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 83 32 115 CAS/Armed Recon 232 154 386 Airlift 546 546 Air refueling 153 153 Total 315 186 699 1,200 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...