Some residents of Valparaiso, Fla., are apparently stepping forward to oppose the lawsuit that their city leadership intends to file by April 5 against the Air Force over the service’s plans to bring F-35s to nearby Eglin Air Force Base...

Fielding new tankers in the Pacific theater, as well as sufficient numbers of C-17s and F-22s will have the positive net effect of keeping nations in the region like China and North Korea more inclined to talk to the US...

The new combat air forces strategic plan is meant to provide the Air Force with an enduring path of stability for how it shapes itself both now and in the future in the face of great turbulence, says Gen. John...

A group of Indian Air Force officers spent Feb. 23-27 at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, as part of a bilateral exchange of subject matter experts. Members of Pacific Air Forces 613th Air and Space Operations Center hosted the visit, during which...

The more than 100 airmen of the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, a C-17 unit from Charleston AFB, S.C., flying in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, dropped their one millionth pound of cargo on Feb. 16 during a mission over Afghanistan,...

The Air Force plans to enlist the help of prior military training instructors to bridge the gap until it can fill the 220 additional MTI slots it must have to train prospective airmen over the next two years as the...

Northrop Grumman has announced recent milestones for two of the Air Force’s major next-generation satellite programs. In a release Monday, the company said it delivered the payload module for the third advanced extremely high frequency military communications satellite on Feb....

While the Air Force sits and waits for a new tanker to replace its Eisenhower-era KC-135s, ally Japan’s tanker program progresses. According to Boeing, the company delivered the third of four KC-767J tankers that it is building for the Japan...

Northrop Grumman announced yesterday that it has received a $4.1 million contract from the Air Force Research Lab to develop a robust, radiation-hardened wireless spacecraft data bus. “The innovative program will redefine spacecraft of the future,” said John Brock, Northrop’s...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMar. 1, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 19 14 33 2,366 CAS/Armed Recon 24 59 83 5,976 Airlift 150 150 7,791 Air refueling 40 40 2,769 Total 306 18,902...