Non-mission essential personnel have been ordered to evacuate MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., by noon of Sept. 27, as Hurricane Ian gathers strength and threatens to hit Florida later this week.
As the Air Force’s test and evaluation enterprise faces a surge of new weapon systems it needs to test, existing range space must be preserved and ground testing needs to be better resourced, said Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr., outgoing head of Air Force Materiel ...
The Air Force and Space Force are teaming up for a hackathon event in late July, looking to “validate rapid development” of new capabilities in an environment spread across bases, services, and classification levels.
An Air Force F-22 and an Air National Guard F-16 crashed in separate incidents a day apart, March 22 and 23, respectively, service spokespeople said. The F-22 crashed at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., while the F-16 crashed in western Louisiana. The F-16 pilot ejected. ...
An F-22's landing gear collapsed upon landing at Eglin Air Force Base March 22, but the pilot is in good condition after a hospital check. The cause of the accident is under investigation, though landing gear issues have afflicted the F-22 in recent years.
The F-15EX successfully fired its first weapon on Jan. 25, launching an AIM-120D missile at a BQM-167 unmanned aerial target over the Gulf of Mexico. Maj. Benjamin Naumann and Maj. Mark Smith, pilots with the 40th Test Squadron, flew the fighter during the test fire, ...
Air Force bases in the Gulf of Mexico region reported minimal damage and no impact on mission as a result of Hurricane Ida, the largest hurricane ever to make landfall in the region. Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., is serving as a relief staging area ...
A maintenance error, committed after an F-22 was washed, affected its control inputs and caused the Raptor to crash May 15, 2020, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The pilot safely ejected, but the aircraft was totaled, with an estimated loss of $201 million, according ...
U.S. Special Operations Command expects a future armed overwatch fleet to quickly reach full utilization, including one squadron deployed at all times, to meet a growing global need for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. SOCOM wants to buy 75 of the aircraft, and Air Force Special ...
Air Combat Command on June 25 activated the first-of-its-kind 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing, which will provide electronic warfare maintenance and expertise for Combat Air Forces. The wing, which is temporarily based at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., while the Air Force does an environmental study ...
The Air Force’s training unit for the F-22 is one step closer to a permanent home, as the service approved Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., as the new location for the unit following the completion of an environmental impact study. But while the study and approval ...
In a multi-faceted test, six bombs that were dropped from two F-16s over White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, set up their own communications network, received new targets in-flight, and struck the targets collaboratively in a synchronized fashion, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced. The ...