The Air Force has conducted more than 50 surveillance missions around the U.S. southern border with crewed and uncrewed aircraft, as the Pentagon seeks to gather intelligence on foreign cartels, drug and human trafficking, and illegal migration.
Offutt Air Force Base
The Air Force welcomed a new wing meant to improve command and control over the military's nuclear enterprise. The 95th Wing combines command and control units from the Active-Duty Air Force, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve under one roof to streamline command and ...
The U.S. military is carrying out intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions along the southern border and off the coast of Mexico using U.S. Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint and U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft as part of the Pentagon’s effort to secure the southern border ...
The Air Force aims to improve its strategic command and control systems by standing up a new unit, the 95th Wing, at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
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The 55th Operations Group flies RC-135 jets on intelligence-gathering missions all over the world with a small fleet of just 28 aircraft.
They were manufactured in the early 1960s and are deployed almost constantly around the world. But the Air Force's fleet of RC-135 intelligence and reconnaissance aircraft enjoy some of the highest mission capable rates in U.S. military aviation. How the Air Force manages it is ...
The Air Force's 557th Weather Wing headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. is the nerve center for weather forecasts that impact military operations around the world.
Air Force weather specialists are used to providing essential data in austere conditions, and they have new tools to move even faster. Their skills could be even more crucial in a conflict against a near-peer adversary.
The Air Force has dispatched an element of its Natural Disaster Recovery Team to Guam in the wake of Super Typhoon Mawar, which has caused widespread damage on the island and at Andersen Air Force Base. The team will assess the damage and put together ...
Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile April 19, the first such test since Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced he was “suspending” his country’s participation in the New START treaty and the U.S. and Russia stopped ...
Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton assumed command of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) in a ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base on Dec. 9, putting an Air Force general in charge of America’s nuclear forces at a time of rising nuclear threats around the globe.