Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James wants to upgrade Air Force Global Strike Command leadership ranks from a three-star to a four-star billet. The recommendation—part of the Air Force’s efforts to improve the nuclear mission—comes at a time when the...

President Barack Obama’s new military strategy seeks a more subtle use of US power to influence world affairs, setting a high bar for use of large-scale military force unless the US is directly attacked, he said Wednesday. The President’s clear...

Legacy C-130 cockpit upgrades that would eliminate the need for a navigator on the crew are much more expensive and offer only marginal benefits over less expensive options, according to a May 29 report from the Government Accountability Office. The...

An anonymous survey of Military Training Instructors conducted at Lackland AFB, Texas, found MTIs are overworked, mistrusted by their chain of command, and fearful of trainee retribution, reported the San Antonio Express-News. Safeguards put in place after the MTI sexual...

An Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk transited British airspace for the first time as part of a NATO exercise aimed at developing operational concepts ahead of the arrival of the alliance’s own RQ-4s. “It is good to see existing airspace...

A pair of MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft recently flew an air-to-ground weapon system evaluation over the Utah Test and Training Range. The Reapers flew a two-ship formation for the first time en-route through civilian air space from Creech AFB,...

Members of the South Carolina Wing of the Civil Air Patrol recovered a missing Grumman AA1B plane with two bodies on board outside of Chester, S.C., May 27, according to a CAP release. Officials at MCAS Cherry Point, N.C., confirmed...

A Royal Air Force RC-135W Rivet Joint crew flew the type’s first sortie in British airspace from its home base at RAF Waddington since delivery from the US, RAF officials announced. “We have worked very closely with our colleagues in...