The Defense Department has released the names of the eight airmen killed in Wednesday’s shooting incident at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan. They are: Lt. Col. Frank D. Bryant Jr., 37, of Knoxville, Tenn. He was assigned to the 56th...
The Air Force on Thursday confirmed that the eight US military personnel who died in Wednesday’s shooting incident at Kabul International Airport were airmen training and advising the Afghan air force. “The entire Air Force family is saddened by this...
President Obama on Thursday announced his intent to nominate Leon Panetta to replace Robert Gates as Defense Secretary and Army Gen. David Petraeus to take over for Panetta as CIA director. “I cannot think of a group of individuals better...
Airmen and C-130s from the 50th Airlift Squadron at Little Rock AFB, Ark., deployed to Southwest Asia on Thursday, just three days after a tornado wreaked devastation on the base. “My hat’s off to our whole community for the extraordinary...
Gen. Donald Hoffman, Air Force Materiel Command boss, warned that the Defense Department, like the nation, is facing a great challenge in maintaining its fiscal health that threatens national security. “We’re on an unsustainable path,” he said in his address...
An Air Force UH-1N Huey helicopter crashed on a routine training flight from Kirtland AFB, N.M. The aircrew, assigned to the base’s 58th Special Operations Wing, escaped the wreckage unscathed before flames consumed the helicopter just before noon local time...
The House Armed Services Committee will start to mark up the Obama Administration’s $670.9 billion defense spending proposal for Fiscal 2012 next week, said Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), committee chairman, Thursday. The mark-ups will commence on May 4 when the...
The Indian defense ministry has rejected both US bids for India’s medium multi-role combat aircraft competition. Lockheed Martin’s proposed F-16IN and Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet failed the make the shortlist to supply the Indian air force with 126 fighters, worth...
A Russian-built SA-15B air defense radar arrived at Eielson AFB, Alaska, earlier this month to provide realistic surface-to-air threat training for Air Force pilots. The tracked, mobile radar, codenamed “Gauntlet” by NATO, will join a network of other threat anti-aircraft...
South Korean special forces soldiers will begin standing watch on Sunday at various security towers at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, joining airmen of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing in protecting the installation. “This is the first time the Korean soldiers have...
Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that Israel intends to acquire two additional C-130J transports, increasing the nation’s order so far to three. “We are providing Israel with the most flexible and capable airlifter in the world as that country continues to...