The Air Force will transition its close air support “culture” to its fourth generation fighters and the F-35 fleet, eventually equipping it with more effective weapons for close combat, Air Combat Command boss Gen. Hawk Carlisle told reporters at the...
Headquarters Air Force convened representatives from all the services, US Special Operations Command, and other entities at the Pentagon last week as part of “close air support focus week,” generating several new joint initiatives to improve the CAS mission, Air...
The United States is “systematically squandering” its “asymmetric airpower advantage” by not fully considering the use of ground troops in the fight against ISIS in Iraq, said Benjamin Lambeth, a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter was officially sworn in during a March 6 ceremony hosted by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army Gen. Martin Dempsey at the Pentagon. “As we know from Secretary Carter’s long experience in the department, he is...
Air Force installations are “too big, too old, and too expensive to operate,” said Miranda Ballentine, USAF assistant secretary for installations, environment, and energy on March 3. Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee’s readiness panel, Ballentine said the Air...
Idaho Air National Guard A-10Cs deployed to Al Udeid AB, Qatar, this week to fly a trio of international exercises in the Persian Gulf region, US Air Forces Central Command announced. Six aircraft and roughly 120 pilots, maintainers, and support...
The Hawaii Air National Guard is hosting nearly 45 fighter and support aircraft at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam during the Sentry Aloha exercise, officials announced. This iteration will include Hawaii’s F-22s flying with ANG A-10s from Indiana, F-15Cs from Florida and...
Eight Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s joined F-22 Raptors at JB Langley-Eustis, Va., for the three-week joint training event Exercise Western Zephyr, RAF officials announced on March 5. “Training of this nature alongside our allies is essential if we are...