Nearly 100 Airmen will receive Distinguished Flying Crosses and a dozen more will get Bronze Star Medals for their actions in Operation Allies Refuge, the noncombatant evacuation out of Kabul, Afghanistan, in the summer of 2021 that garnered worldwide attention. Additionally, the 621st Contingency Response ...
Gen. Mike Minihan
A pair of KC-135s from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., continuously operated for 72 hours, landing only to swap crews, refuel, and service engine oil while keeping at least one engine running at all times. The mission, which took place from Oct. 4 to 7 ...
The troubled KC-46 Pegasus tanker faced yet another setback when the Air Force said the new Remote Vision System (RVS) 2.0, which will be used to operate the airplane's refueling boom, will not be available until October 2025. That is a further 19-month delay from ...
World: ASC22--Air Force adapts ACE; An emphasis on people; Flexibility for the Air Force future; Collaborative Combat Aircraft; Semper Supra.
A collection of quotes on air power, space power, and national security issues
Commander of Air Mobility Command Gen. Mike Minihan delivered a keynote address on “The Mobility Manifesto” at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Watch the video or read the transcript below.
With an ambitious goal of being ready to fight inside the Pacific’s first island chain by August 2023, Air Mobility Command boss Gen. Mike Minihan laid out what he called his “Mobility Manifesto” at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference, highlighted by plans to move ...
AMC and PACAF say they have overcome fuel storage and aerial refueling concerns.
A collection of quotes on air power, space power, and national security issues.
A collection of quotes on air power, space power, and national security issues.
Lessons from the KC-46 and F-35 will prove useful to the testing community in the years to come.
Van Ovost is currently the only female four-star general in the Defense Department and just the fourth in Air Force history. She and retired Gen. Lori J. Robinson are now the only women to lead a unified combatant command—Robinson headed U.S. Northern Command and NORAD ...