Retired CMSAF James C. Binnicker, who served from July 1986 through July 1990 as the ninth Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, died on March 21 in Calhoun, Ga. He was 76. Binnicker was “a man of honor and...

Missileers launched an inert Minuteman III ICBM on a validation flight over the Pacific Ocean from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., on Monday, announced Air Force Global Strike Command. A crew from the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo., worked...

The 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, Ariz., conducted its first F-35A student training sortie, announced base officials. Brig. Gen. Scott Pleus, 56th FW commander and an F-16 pilot, completed the flight on March 18 as part of his upgrade...

F-16s from Aviano AB, Italy, deployed to Ämari AB, Estonia, for several weeks of cooperative forward air control training with Estonian air force joint terminal attack controllers. The pilots of Aviano’s 510th Fighter Squadron will practice acting as airborne forward...

Some 390 US airmen, along with nearly 1,000 Singaporean and Thai personnel, wrapped up Exercise Cope Tiger at Korat RTAFB, Thailand. This year’s iteration of the annual exercise brought together Air Force F-15s, an E-3 AWACS, and a KC-135 tanker...

Maintainers at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex in Georgia recently completed modernization of the avionics and weather radar on the Air Force’s C-17s, according to a base release. Work on this Block 16 upgrade had been underway since 2007,...

Boeing delivered the Air Force’s first production QF-16C full-scale aerial target to Tyndall AFB, Fla., according to a base release. “We take great pride in this significant team achievement and are honored to provide the warfighter with this enhanced capability,”...

Some 100 NATO airmen from 16 countries are practicing air surveillance and tactical air mission control at Gioia del Colle AB, Italy, during Exercise Ramstein Dust I 2015, announced alliance officials. These airmen are part of NATO’s Deployable Air Control...