Multiple American service members were wounded and some aircraft were damaged in a March 27 Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
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Three additional B-1B Lancers arrived at RAF Fairford on March 26, bringing the total number of bombers stationed at the U.K. base to 21—one of the largest bomber deployments in recent history.
The Air Force may have used a secretive intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance drone over Venezuela earlier this year. Now, observers think they may have spotted an even more classified aircraft amid operations in Iran.
A U.S. Air Force F-35A pilot suffered shrapnel wounds after their aircraft was damaged during a combat mission over Iran on March 19, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
High-end combat against a capable, integrated air defense system has always entailed risk, and historically, that risk has translated into significant aircraft losses. What is remarkable in the current Iran war is not that a U.S. F-35 was hit—but that combat losses to date have ...
Air Force acquisition officials are on the hunt for small, easily portable, one-way attack drones to arm special forces operators, so they can launch first-person-view precision strike missions like Ukraine has used to great effect against Russia.
The Air Force has posthumously promoted two of the six Airmen who died in a KC-135 crash in western Iraq on March 12.
The Air Force is using some of its newest bombs and some of its oldest planes to strike very different targets in the Strait of Hormuz during Operation Epic Fury—a high-tech bunker-busting bomb and the famous A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane. Chairman of the Joint ...
An Air Force F-35A fighter was forced to conduct an emergency landing at a U.S. air base after being struck by ground fire during a combat mission over Iran on March 19, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
For nearly five minutes, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described in detail how the bomber fleet is playing a key role in Operation Epic Fury and how the Airmen who operate that fleet do their jobs.
Tributes to the six crew members that died in the KC-135 Stratotanker crash in Iraq have flooded social media since the Pentagon released their identities March 14. They were the first Airmen to die while supporting Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
U.S. personnel and bases in Europe are playing a major role in enabling the war against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, the head of American forces on the continent said March 12.