The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier entered the Caribbean Sea, the U.S. Navy said Nov. 16, as the U.S. continues to build up its military might in the region, largely through airpower.
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Fail Today, Win Tomorrow: Reflecting on Pacific Wargames By David Roza The Department of the Air Force swung for the fences this summer with a massive six-week exercise stretching from Japan to New Mexico where more than 12,000 Airmen and 700...
Reflections on a 39-year career. Gen. David W. Allvin completed two years as Chief of Staff, half the statutory tour length, but long enough, he says, to have made a mark on the Air Force. “We can’t always pick...
In the wake of an intense storm, Alaska Air National Guard Airmen evacuated more than 500 residents by C-17s as heavy storm surges flooded villages in the region.
The U.S. military is deploying significant airpower in the Caribbean one week after carrying out an airstrike on what it said was a boat operated by a Venezuelan drug cartel.
The C-17-flying 21st Airlift Squadron is one of dozens of units taking part in the first-of-its-kind Air Force exercise stretching across the Pacific Ocean this month.
Air Force Reveals Range and Inventory Goals for F-47, CCAs By John A. Tirpak The F-47 Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter will have a combat radius greater than 1,000 miles—nearly double that of the F-22—and the Air Force plans to acquire...
Sustained Munitions Production and Lower-Cost Designs By John A. Tirpak Munitions have long been a bill-payer in the Air Force budget—staples of warfare that, in peacetime, can be neglected or shortchanged to pay for more pressing needs—but after more than...
B-2 Spirit bombers have landed on Diego Garcia, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean that serves as a strategic hub for operations everywhere from the Middle East to Africa to the Indo-Pacific, a spokesperson for Air Force Global Strike Command confirmed to Air & ...
The head of the U.S. Transportation doesn’t want to wait to start planning on a new airlifter to replace both the C-5 and C-17 fleets, which serve as the command's "workhorses."
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A U.S. Air Force C-17 carrying detained migrants arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Feb. 6, the second such flight to the U.S. military outpost this week, a defense official told Air & Space Forces Magazine, part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on ...

