In a potential fast-moving future conflict, spread widely across the Pacific, the U.S. would depend on mighty Air Force C-5 and C-17 airlifters to move vast amounts of military materiel. But they can’t do the job alone. Air Mobility Command’s 1,145 tankers and cargo aircraft ...
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The last remaining U.S. base in Niger, Air Base 201 has closed, Pentagon said on Aug. 5. The base had conducted intelligence operations with drones such as MQ-9s, as part of Washington's counterterrorism mission in the region. Less than two dozen of American troops still ...
Military leaders and analysts are urging the U.S. military to field advanced layered air defense systems to counter China's growing missile threats to Guam, a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the Pacific.
Project Magellan is the latest maximum endurance operation (MEO), the term for long-haul missions, meant to test Airmen as transport and tanker crews under Air Mobility Command.
The last few U.S. troops departed Air Base 101 in Niger on July 7, flying on an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III. The moment marks a milestone in the ongoing effort to withdraw American forces from Niger, where they have conducted key counterterrorism missions from ...
Two B-52 bombers from Barksdale Air Force Base flew a mission in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility last week, a relatively rare trip below the equator. The sortie comes on the heels of SOUTHCOM’s three-week multilateral exercise, Resolute Sentinel, which wrapped up June ...
A detailed guide to the aircraft, aerial target systems, weapons systems, and satellite systems in USAF and USSF inventory.
An Air Force Accident Investigation Board released a detailed report on a Missile Defense Agency employee's death on Aug. 22, 2023, linked to decompression sickness.
The U.S., Australia, and the U.K. joined forces for "Global Dexterity," a two-week exercise in the Pacific that saw C-17 transport crews from all three nations work together to practice mobility operations from Nov. 27 to Dec. 8. Air and ground crews from each country ...
Recent Chiefs put the Air Force on the right course. Allvin’s mission is to deliver on those promises.
More than 200 Airmen will receive medals for their roles in Operation Allies Refuge, the effort to move more than 124,000 evacuees out of Afghanistan in the final weeks of the U.S. war there in late summer 2021.
While the Pentagon surges U.S. forces to the Middle East to deter further conflict in the region, the Air Force’s airlift fleet has been steadily working to deliver essential munitions, armored vehicles, and aid to Israel for its war against Hamas using C-17 Globemaster III ...
