Four service members were aboard a U.S. Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, the Army said in a release Sept. 18. The Army did not release their conditions.
President Donald Trump announced Sept. 18 that the U.S. is trying to reclaim the Afghanistan airbase that American troops abandoned in 2021 during their withdrawal from the country. Trump has repeatedly attacked former President Joe Biden for handing over Bagram Airfield, the largest American military base in the country and a logistics hub for the 20-year international war effort there.
Drone swarms that have deluged Ukraine for years—and crossed the border into Poland last week—have sent NATO militaries in Europe rushing to upgrade air defenses in case they ever face a similar threat. Soon they will have a new solution: lasers.
The Space Force needs a more “comprehensive program,” including more collaboration with commercial industry, to improve space domain awareness capabilities in order to “avoid operational surprise,” according to Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman.
Kirsten Davies, President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Department of Defense chief information officer, told lawmakers that she plans to shake up the Pentagon’s IT enterprise, if her nomination is confirmed.
Northrop Grumman’s new high-tech testbed for AI and autonomy software will take flight “very shortly,” the company’s director for Advanced Autonomy told reporters ahead of the annual Air & Space Forces Association conference. The crucial component, Dan Salluce said, is a new autonomy software package the company is calling Prism.
A recent special-operations exercise in the Caribbean showcased an Air Force operating concept designed to counter near-peer militaries—and, experts said, might be a message to unfriendly governments and criminal groups in the Americas.
The Danish government has decided the country needs long-range strike weapons to strengthen its deterrence posture as well as the collective deterrence of NATO, based on a recommendation from Chief of Defense Gen. Michael Hyldgaard.
What looks to be a previously unseen low-observable flying-wing drone variant with a ‘cranked kite’ planform has emerged in a satellite image from China’s secretive test base near Malan in the country’s far western Xinjiang province.
The Air Force’s efforts over the last 15 years to turn around how it works with small businesses are in danger. A new memo from Secretary Troy Meink cuts the service’s small business office down to one person. The Air Force’s decision to reduce staff and move the small business advocacy functions to its acquisition shop is raising alarm bells among small business advocates.
Plane spotters in Fort Worth, Texas, caught a glimpse of something rare yesterday: one of the U.S. Air Force’s four E-4B Nightwatch jets flying completely stripped of paint and with much of its skin covered in a green zinc chromate coating.
