The Air Force has given the go-ahead for 19 additional F-15 A-D models to resume flying operations, bringing the total number of Eagles that have been inspected and returned to flight status to 278, Air Combat Command announced on Jan....

Afghanistan’s National Army Air Corps is a small but rapidly growing force that will swell to 7,400 personnel and 112 aircraft at the end of an eight-year rebuilding plan in 2015, Air Force Brig. Gen. Jay Lindell told Pentagon reporters...

Boeing and Lockheed Martin are expected today to announce a teaming arrangement in the forthcoming competition to build the Air Force’s next-generation bomber. A press advisory issued late yesterday said the two aerospace giants have agreed to “perform studies and...

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability has experienced a paradigm shift since the end of the Cold War—turning from a fleet of platforms to a network of sensors that are hyper responsive to commanders’ needs, an Air Force planner said yesterday....

One of the big holes in the Air Force’s ISR plan has been the wide area surveillance mission since the cancellation of the E-10 program in Fiscal 2007. The E-10 was the planned successor to the E-8 Joint STARS as...

Illinois’s Democrat governor has asked Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne not to move the current Air National Guard F-16 unit based in the state’s capital, or if it does leave as USAF’s current plans dictate, to base cargo aircraft there....

The Air Force’s current focus in cyberspace is to establish the capacity to keep critical computer networks up and running even when an adversary has succeeded in intruding them, says USAF’s current cyber commander. “We’re establishing tactics, techniques, and procedures...

The UK Royal Air Force activated its first unmanned aerial vehicle unit, No. 39 Squadron, on Jan. 23 at Creech AFB, Nev. Air Marshal Iain McNicholl, RAF’s deputy commander in chief of operations, presided over the ceremony. RAF personnel have...

Jan. 23, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 14 11 25 CAS/Armed Recon 17 44 61 Airlift 121 121 Air refueling 46 46 Total 31 55 167 253 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...