Directed energy is well-positioned to be the “pointy end” of the Pentagon’s Third Offset strategy, Air Force Materiel Command chief Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski said Thursday. Speaking at the Directed Energy Summit hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Center for...

Directed-energy weapons will earn their way onto warfighting platforms soon, but will not be as powerful as once imagined. At least not yet, Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski said Thursday at the Directed Energy Summit hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton and the...

Two B-52H Stratofortresses flew home to Minot AFB, N.D., on June 23 after completing a roughly one-month deployment to RAF Fairford, United Kingdom. While in Europe, the bombers participated in exercises Baltops 16 and Saber Strike 16, flying a total...

The Iraqi offensive into Fallujah has moved much quicker than the US-led coalition expected, due to a combination of increased capability of the Iraqi forces and not as much ISIS opposition after an intense clearing operation. British Army Maj. Gen....

The US-backed rebels bombed by Russian jets on June 16 reported the aircraft used cluster bombs on their position, which was far from any location Russia had previously targeted. The US-led Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve is still reviewing...

The 433rd Airlift Wing at JBSA-Lackland, Texas, became the Air Force’s first and only Reserve wing to receive the C-5M last week. The Super Galaxy that touched down June 17, dubbed the City of San Antonio, is the first of...

The first African Partnership Flight in Kenya kicked off June 21, with US airmen teaching counterparts from Kenya and Uganda about personnel recovery. More than 50 airmen from US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa and the Massachusetts Air National...