House and Senate leaders on Wednesday presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the Doolittle Raiders during a ceremony in the US Capitol attended by dignitaries and guests, including AFA leadership. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) handed over the medal,...

Colorado Springs, Colo.—Gen. John Hyten, head of Air Force Space Command, delivered a stark warning about the implications a return to sequester-level budgets would have for the service’s space mission. Should Congress not give the Defense Department flexibility to avoid...

US Pacific Command boss Navy Adm. Samuel Locklear told House lawmakers on Wednesday he shared the concerns raised by Pentagon acquisition boss Frank Kendall that the United States is losing its technology edge and he supported the push for technological...

The Defense Department is working with the State Department to determine how best to implement a “partial lifting” of the longstanding lethal arms embargo on Vietnam, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth told the House Armed Services Committee on...

The jammer variant of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy cleared Air Force operational testing, the last major hurdle before the service may declare it ready for use in combat, annou?nced manufacturer Raytheon. “MALD-J’s unique capabilities have been proven in 42...

During a recent visit by a congressional delegation to Eglin AFB, Fla., Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s tactical air and land forces panel, said he heard “disturbing and concerning” updates from aircraft maintainers on...

A pair of New York Air National Guard LC-130 ski-equipped transports supported Operation Nunalivut, a Canadian Arctic exercise, for the second consecutive year, announced Air Guard officials. In light of Russian belligerence toward NATO and increased military activity in the...

A UH-1N helicopter assigned to Fairchild AFB, Wash., surpassed 17,000 total flying hours during a recent sortie, racking up the most flight hours of any UH-1 in the Air Force’s inventory, according to the base’s 36th Rescue Flight. “To know...