Capt. James Steel, 29, died in the crash of an F-16 near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, announced the Pentagon on Friday. He died on April 3 while returning to base from a close air support mission, according to officials from Shaw...

Air Combat Command announced on Thursday that F-22s have resumed normal flight operations following the fleet-wide completion of modifications to aircrew life-support equipment, including the pilot’s upper pressure garment and related hoses, valves, and connectors. This eliminates the need to...

The threat to the Air Force’s KC-46A tanker contract from budget sequestration may have passed now that Congress has given the service some funding reprogramming authority, Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick told the Daily Report on Thursday. He said service...

North Korea has moved a mid-range ballistic missile to a launch site on its eastern coast, according to press reports on Thursday. South Korean defense officials believe that the missile is being prepared for launch, reported the Yonhap news agency....

Six of the eight members of the congressionally mandated National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force are now in place. On April 3, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) and Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith...

The US strategic nuclear arsenal decreased slightly in size in the six-month period ending on March 1 as the nation’s gradual drawdown continues to meet the ceilings imposed by the New START agreement with Russia, according to the newest bilateral...

The Air Force’s three components continue to post strong recruiting numbers in this fiscal year, meeting their respective numerical accession goals through February, the fifth month of Fiscal 2013, according to the Pentagon’s latest recruiting statistics. The Active Duty component...

The New York Air National Guard’s 174th Attack Wing in Syracuse reached its 1,000th flight hour with the MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft as part of its Reaper schoolhouse functions, according to a unit release. The wing, headquartered at Hancock...

The 40th Flight Test Squadron at Eglin AFB, Fla., completed developmental flight testing of BAE Systems’ fixed-wing Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II on the A-10 ground-attack aircraft, according to a base release. The first of three shots of the...

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