The Air Force on Monday sent five nuclear-capable bombers on simultaneous non-stop flights from the continental US to the North and Baltic Seas in one of the biggest flexes of its nuclear might, US Strategic Command announced. The aircraft –...
An Air Force F-35A in late July got its first air-to-air kill, taking out an aerial drone with an externally mounted AIM-9X missile. The F-35A, piloted by Air Force Maj. Raven LeClair, on July 28 identified and targeted the drone...
US aircraft on Monday conducted precision airstrikes in Sirte, Libya, to support Libyan government-affiliated forces fighting ISIS, the Pentagon announced. President Obama authorized the strikes following a recommendation from Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the...
A remodeled Doolittle Raiders exhibit at Eglin AFB, Fla., had a special guest at its dedication Saturday: the last surviving Doolittle Raider. Lt. Col. (ret.) Dick Cole, 100, was Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in America’s first air raid on...
Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, touched down in Turkey to visit troops at Incirlik AB, the same base that dealt with a power outage and frozen operations during a coup attempt last month....
SrA Ramon Curtis was riding his motorcycle to work at Columbus AFB, Miss., on July 24 when he saw an SUV flip onto its side. Curtis, a weather forecaster with 14th Operations Support Squadron, could hear a man inside the...
US-backed rebels, bolstered by constant coalition air support, now control 70 percent of the contested Syrian ISIS stronghold of Manbij, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces said. The spokesman told Reuters that the SDF fighters pushed back Sunni militants...
The Russian Defense Ministry said a Mi-8 helicopter was shot down during a mission on Monday in Syria, killing all five on board. Video released online by Syrian rebels shows the flaming wreckage of the aircraft, reportedly near Aleppo. The...