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What One Space Force General Did When We Weren’t Watching
Maj Gen Purdy and Charles Beames at the Space Mobility Conference in Orlando, FL. Space Mobility…
Three Essential Truths Space Force Must Never Forget
Three Essential Truths Space Force Must Never Forget ShutterStock | Pretty Vectors High level budget allocation…
The Air Force Launched 15 Percent of Its C-17 Fleet in a Recent Surge Exercise
A flight of 24 C-17 Globemasters – 15% of the USAF’s C-17s – from the Charleston,…
Meeting In Washington, U.S. Surface Navy Mulls Lost Mojo
The Navy must realize the 1990s are long past. Getty Images As the U.S. Navy surface…
The Pentagon, In A Tech War With China, Is On Track To Field Its First Electric Aircraft In 2023
Air Force Maj. Jonathan Appleby (left) and Beta Technologies test pilot Camron Guthrie sit in the…
U.S. Air Force Reveals (Not So) Cutting Edge B-21 Stealth Bomber
B-21 Stealth bomber unveiled for first time in Palmdale, California. Northrop Grumman Unveiled during a ceremony…
It’s Been 50 Years Since the Air Force Last Operated a Single Engine Tail-Dragger. How Will It Train New OA-1K Pilots?
The L3Harris/Air Tractor AT-802U Sky Warden, now formally called the OA-1K by the Air Force, on…
Air Force F-35 Lightning IIs Still Can’t Fly Within 25 Miles of …Lightning
U.S. Air Force Capt. Kristin “BEO” Wolfe, F-35 Lightning II Demonstration Team commander and pilot, ……
A KC-46 Crew Gutted Out a Day and a Half-Long Mission to Prove the Air Force Can Offset Its Dwindling Number of Tankers
Lt. Col. Greg Van Splunder and Lt. Col. Brandon Stock, pilots with the 157th Air Refueling…
2 Live Crew – The Air Force Flew a KC-46 Refueling Mission with Just One Pilot and One Boom Operator
A KC-46A Pegasus like this one flew an entire aerial refueling mission with one pilot and…
Five Ways A New Air Force Tanker Competition Would Be Very Different From The Last One
One of the most important roles the Air Force performs is providing aerial refueling for U.S.…
Air Force, Navy Plans Look Totally Out Of Sync With China Threat Estimates
What’s wrong with this picture? Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that China has…
The Air Force’s Aged Fleet Of AWACS Radar Planes Is In ‘Hospice Care.’ It Needs New Planes As Soon As Possible.
The E-3 Sentry AWACS plane with its rotating radar dome above the fuselage has long been…
Leadership Actions On Drones Put Lives At Risk And Undermine U.S. Security
MQ-1 Predator A Tail 3034, first to fire a Hellfire in combat. Photo by Eric Long,…
Provide The Airpower Ukraine Needs To Win Now
F-15 and F-16 Fighters U.S. Air Force photo Time is not on Ukraine’s side. The West’s…
The Air Force Is Retiring Most of Its Global Hawk ISR Drones to A Test Role for Hypersonic Missiles
An RQ-4 Global Hawk receives routine maintenance after being refueled at Grand Forks Air Force Base,…
U.S. Service Member Arrested For Explosion On American Base In Syria
Topline A member of the U.S. Air Force was arrested in connection with an attack on…
The Proposed 2023 Defense Budget Doesn’t Meet U.S. Security Goals
Cover from FY23 DOD budget request DOD Will the president’s proposed 2023 federal budget allow the…
The Space Force Requires A Space National Guard
National Guard and Space Force Official Seals In a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on…
Ukraine’s Best Fighter Jets Just Bombed The Hell Out Of The Russian Troops On Snake Island
Su-27s strike Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture The Ukrainian air force’s best fighter jets just…
Ukraine’s Air Force Is Back! But Who Knows For How Long.
A Ukrainian Su-25 over Donbas on May 7, 2022. TikTok capture Ten weeks into Russia’s wider…
How Used Aircraft Parts Can Help DoD Improve Mission Readiness
By Randy Starr and Dennis Santare Randy Starr, an ex-Army commander of an airborne rapid deployment…
Ukraine Is Losing Several S-300 Anti-Air Launchers A Week. But It Still Has Hundreds Left.
A destroyed Ukrainian S-300 battery in eastern Ukraine in late March 2022. Russian defense ministry capture…
Ukrainian Helicopters Reportedly Strike Fuel Depot Over Border In Russia
Topline A fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod is on fire Friday after Ukrainian…
World Events Demand Congress Reset Administration F-35 Cuts
OGDEN, UT: A F-35 fighter jet on a training mission (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images) Getty…