From Norway to Australia, from Guam to United Kingdom, the Air Force wants to invest more money in infrastructure outside the continental U.S. than it has in years, according to budget documents. As part of to its fiscal year 2024 budget request, the Air Force is ...
F-22 Raptors are leaving Europe after a four-month deployment, U.S. Air Forces in Europe said. The stealth fifth-generation fighters were sent to NATO's Eastern Flank in July and mainly operated out of Poland, conducting air policing missions in response to Russia's renewed invasion of Ukraine. ...
The Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2022 will be formally recognized at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference from Sept. 19 to 21 in National Harbor, Md. Air & Space Forces Magazine is highlighting one each weekday from now until the ...
The Department of the Air Force launched a new pilot program Aug. 1 that will centralize resources for survivors of sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic abuse, and other forms of “interpersonal violence.” The Integrated Response Co-Location Pilot program is being tested at seven locations across ...
Only a few years ago, RAF Mildenhall, one of a few bases in the United Kingdom that still hosts U.S. Air Force units, was set to close, a target of the 2015 European Infrastructure Consolidation Plan. That changed in the summer of 2020, when then-Defense ...
F-22s arrived at RAF Lakenheath, U.K., en route to Poland, as the U.S. Air Force continues to bolster its presence of fifth-generation fighters in the region. U.S. Air Forces in Europe confirmed the F-22s’ arrival, stating that the fighters from the 90th Fighter Squadron of ...
As tens of thousands of industry officials, military personnel, and aviation enthusiasts streamed through the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough International Airshow, many gathered to see U.S. Air Force jets, assembled from across Europe and the U.S., and to speak to the aircrew who ...
At a NATO summit in June, President Joe Biden highlighted the two F-35 squadrons the U.S. is placing in the United Kingdom as part of his administration’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But once those two squadrons, both stationed at RAF Lakenheath, are built ...
President Joe Biden highlighted the already planned positioning of two F-35 squadrons in the United Kingdom, along with new air defenses in Italy and Germany, when naming the U.S.'s European force posture moves to deter Russian aggression.
RZESZOW, Poland—Just 62 miles from the Ukrainian border in southeastern Poland, a small regional airport has been converted to an international logistics hub where aircraft deliver defense and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. It is protected by American air defense systems. After Moscow promised to target ...
The U.S. Air Force sent F-35 fighters to Germany days after a B-52 Bomber Task Force arrived in England to reassure Allies amid increasing tensions in Eastern Europe. F-15s from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., also recently deployed to Poland to augment F-15s forward-deployed ...
Sixteen U.S. Air Force fighter jets have deployed to Poland and Romania to support Baltic enhanced air policing and to reassure NATO eastern flank allies in the face of heightened Russian activity, U.S. Air Forces in Europe told Air Force Magazine. Eight F-16s from the ...
