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A new experiment integrating commercial satellites with military networks for tactical and strategic communications is one of U.S. Northern Command chief Gen. Glen D. VanHerck’s priorities. The experiment should be concluded within the year, he said during a press briefing. Speaking from Alaska with Pentagon ...
As the Air Force Research Laboratory is studying the space environment in space, it’s also building a new device to simulate the space environment in a lab. Both activities could help the Space Force predict and track the well being of satellites.
Under cover of secrecy, the “training” mission turned to “advice in combat” and then into “combat training sorties.”
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 ...
