Under cover of secrecy, the “training” mission turned to “advice in combat” and then into “combat training sorties.”
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Barnstormers, wing walkers, and air racers lit the spark to enchantment with aviation.
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Art posted to social media by Air Combat Command's leader, Gen. Mark D. Kelly, shows advanced new capabilities sported by the F-22 Raptor, including stealthy external fuel tanks, an infrared search-and-track system, and likely the F-22's new long-range missile, the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile. ...
The first chief of the air arm was a pilot—but not an airplane pilot.
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The British and the Americans disagreed on almost everything about the Combined Bomber Offensive.
President Joe Biden traveled to the Troy, Ala., Lockheed Martin production facility for Javelin anti-tank weapons to highlight that weapon's role in helping Ukrainian soldiers push back Russia on the battlefield. Biden is calling for passage of a $33 billion supplemental bill that would begin ...
The Air Force may not need more than the 100 B-21s it originally planned to buy because it can supplement them with new "collaborative" uncrewed aircraft, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. told the Senate Armed Services Committee. He and Secretary Frank Kendall ...
Growing out of the problem of fratricide in close air support, an app originating in the Air Force Research Laboratory is bringing wildland firefighting into the internet age. Team Awareness Kit’s free downloads and plugin architecture are giving firefighters, among others, the ability to layer ...
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