After months of speculation, the Air Force announced on Friday it now expects Boeing to miss the August 2017 deadline to deliver 18 KC-46A tankers. The Air Force extended the fielding timeline after a schedule risk assessment. Now, Altus AFB,...
The Air Force has already provided the value of the B-21 contract award, as well as other details, to both defense committees, despite a provision in the Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act that suggests otherwise. The legislation...
The Air Force’s nuclear-armed Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile program should be shelved, an arms control expert at the the Brookings Institution wrote in an in an editorial published by Defense News on May 26. Steven Pifer, director of the think...
Two Dutch F-35A Lightning IIs deployed from Edwards AFB, Calif., to Leeuwarden AB, Netherlands, touched down on home soil for the first time last week, Royal Netherlands Air Force officials announced. The jets began three weeks of airspace integration trials...
A town 10 miles northeast of Fallujah is clear, Iraqi forces have the city “largely isolated,” and the US military has dropped leaflets warning civilians to avoid ISIS areas as the battle to retake the city got underway last week,...
Airmen with the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron at Kadena AB, Japan, recently taught members of the Marine Corps and Navy the Air Force way of repairing airfields. The squadron participated in an exercise May 18-19 with combat engineers from the...
Fighters from the 36th Fighter Squadron at Osan AB, Korea, are set to fly with their South Korean counterparts in two weeks. The US F-16Cs and F-15Ks from the ROKAF’s 11th Fighter Wing will practice basic maneuvers and the fundamentals...