Following a meeting at the Pentagon, Republic of Korea Defense Minister Han Min-koo and US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced a new “conditions-based approach” to the transfer of wartime control of allied forces in South Korea. Following the annual...
The US and South Korea will expand intelligence sharing and missile defense cooperation as the South works towards its own air and missile defense system, which is slated for operation by the mid-2020s, said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his...
Maj. Gen. Michael Keltz assumed command of the reformed 19th Air Force, which oversees Air Education and Training Command’s flight training programs, in a ceremony at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, on Wednesday. The numbered air force stood up the beginning of October....
B-52 bombers are flying long-range sorties in support of NATO naval forces during Exercise Noble Justification in the Atlantic and Mediterranean this month, US Strategic Command announced. “The B-52s will perform two long-range sorties from the continental United States to...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel offered his condolences and continued support to the Canadian Armed Forces following a shooting Wednesday in Ottawa that left both a Canadian soldier and his attacker dead and a hit-and-run attack on another Canadian soldier in...
Some 200 airmen from 18th Wing at Kadena AB, Japan, accompanied 12 F-15 Eagles on a two-week aviation training relocation deployment to Nyutabaru AB, Japan, last weekend, where they will train jointly with Japan Air Self Defense Force units on...
The Air Force and NATO are undertaking an extensive modernization of the cockpits of their E-3 AWACS aircraft through the DRAGON program, according to an Air Force release. The E-3s of the 552nd Air Control Wing at Tinker AFB, Okla.,...
The Air Force is proposing a 700,000-acre encroachment buffer zone to the Utah Test and Training Range to support future F-35A training requirements. Service planners put forward preliminary ideas for eight potential zones spread across Box Elder, Juab, and Tooele...