The Long-Range Strike Bomber is a leading element of the Pentagon’s new offset strategy revealed by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last week, but so far, no increase in LRS-B units is deemed necessary, said Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, the Air...

The Air Force will present a plan for an alternative to the Russian RD-180 rocket engine in the Fiscal 2016 defense budget request set to go to Congress in February, said Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, military deputy in the Air...

The Air Force expects to choose the first Air Force Reserve Command-led KC-46A main operating base in 2016 and see the first KC-46 tankers destined for beddown there arrive some three years later, according to a release. “This basing action...

Air Force officials have selected three future basing options for the F-16 aggressor squadron currently housed at Eielson AFB, Alaska, including keeping the unit in place. “Now that we have identified Eielson [Air Force Base] as the preferred alternative for...

A B-1 bomber earlier this week destroyed a weapons storage facility utilized by al Qaeda forces near Haram, Syria, announced US Central Command. It was the most recent wave of airstrikes on targets associated with the veteran Islamist operatives since...

Pushing back on criticism of the US military strategy to counter the ISIS terror group, Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said the Pentagon and US Central Command have strategic guidance, but it is shifting as the conflict evolves....

Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy personnel, along with US combat aircraft, are participating in Exercise Max Thunder, a bilateral training event with the South Korean air force that runs through Nov. 22 at Kunsan AB, South Korea. More...

Mutual US and Russian observation overflights permitted under the Open Skies Treaty have continued unabated despite military tensions with Russia. Air Force OC-135s have flown 17 Open Skies missions so far this year, including three survey flights over Crimea and...

NATO’s E-3 AWACS component concluded its final two-year rotation to Afghanistan, where it provided air-traffic management and command and control over the country for nearly four years. The last personnel from the component departed Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, on Nov. 18,...

The Royal Air Force’s first A400M Atlas airlifter touched down at RAF Brize Norton, England, after a delivery flight from Airbus’ military production plant in Seville, Spain, reports IHS Jane’s. The airplane arrived on Nov. 17, according to the report....