Air Combat Command officials have made progress in defining key requirements for the HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter since the Air Force awarded the $1.28 billion development contract to Sikorsky Aircraft last June, ACC officials told Air Force Magazine. The HH-60W...

Although the Air Force’s new HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter is a slimmed-down reboot of the cancelled CSAR-X rescue platform, the CRH will share many of its performance requirements, Air Combat Command officials told Air Force Magazine. While the HH-60W will...

SSgt. Todd Lobraico Jr. was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device during a ceremony at Stewart ANGB, N.Y. The Air Force honored the late Lobraico, a security forces airman with the New York Air National Guard’s 105th...

A Russian fighter passed dangerously close to an RC-135 intelligence-gathering aircraft over the Baltic Sea, sparking a US diplomatic protest, according to US military officials. “On the morning of April 7, a US RC-135U flying a routine route in international...

Six C-130Hs from the Delaware Air National Guard’s 166th Airlift Wing conducted a mass-formation training sortie from Newcastle ANG Base, the unit’s largest group flight since 2003, reported WMDT News on Monday. More than 40 aircrew executed a cargo airdrop...

Air Force Materiel Command activated a detachment at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, to support the work of the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, announced Pacific Air Forces. AFIMSC, Det. 2—or PACDET, as it is known—is the first unit...

US Special Operations Command added two former air commandos to its Commando Hall of Honor during a ceremony at MacDill AFB, Fla., announced Air Force Special Operations Command. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, SOCOM commander, honored retired Maj. Gen. James Hobson...

UN diplomats are gathering in Geneva this week to discuss the ethical, legal, and technical implications of nations operating so-called lethal autonomous weapons systems in combat. LAWS are different from remotely piloted aircraft since humans would not be making the...