An AC-130U Spooky crew provided more than nine hours of air support to special operations forces, enabling the rescue of 15 patients during a mass casualty evacuation in an April 2019 mission in Afghanistan. In a March 2 ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Fla., the aircrew ...
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Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein told Senate legislators March 3 the service will not use the new KC-46 tanker unless absolutely necessary to fight a powerful adversary. The wide-ranging Senate Armed Services Committee hearing—the first of multiple chances the Air Force has this week ...
The Air Force picked the AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon hypersonic missile over the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon because it's more advanced and is a better match to the Air Force's needs, and the HCSW just didn't fit in an overcrowded budget, service acquisition chief ...
President Trump nominated Gen. Charles Q. Brown, head of Pacific Air Forces, to be the next Air Force Chief of Staff, succeeding Gen. David Goldfein, who retires this summer. If confirmed, Brown would be the first African American to serve as Chief of Staff of ...
The priority target for Germany's V-1 “Vengeance” weapon was London. To his peril, Hitler ignored military targets close to the coast.
USAF to launch no-risk, trial fitness tests.
Research Closes in on Reality
USAF and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force are taking bilateral interoperability to the next level with joint F-35 training.
Barbara Barrett’s first interview as Secretary of the Air Force.
With a dozen-plus initiatives, the Air Force is cutting decades from the acquisition process.
Patrolling USAF’s missile fields is job one for the Air Force’s new helicopter.
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