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Behold The First Flight Of A B-52 Bomber Carrying The AGM-183A Hypersonic Missile

Behold The First Flight Of A B-52 Bomber Carrying The AGM-183A Hypersonic Missile

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Jun 18, 2019
Turkey Rolls Out A Mock-Up Of Its Indigenous Stealth Fighter To An Uncertain Future

Turkey Rolls Out A Mock-Up Of Its Indigenous Stealth Fighter To An Uncertain Future

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 17, 2019
Lockheed Eyes Giving F-35s More Gas With Drop Tanks And That’s A Very Good Thing

Lockheed Eyes Giving F-35s More Gas With Drop Tanks And That’s A Very Good Thing

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jun 15, 2019
B-52 Bomber Flies For The First Time With New Hypersonic Missile Under Its Wing

B-52 Bomber Flies For The First Time With New Hypersonic Missile Under Its Wing

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 13, 2019
USAF Fighter And Bomber Crews Get Modified M4 Rifles That Fit Under Ejection Seats

USAF Fighter And Bomber Crews Get Modified M4 Rifles That Fit Under Ejection Seats

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Jun 5, 2019
USAF Wants More Airlift Capacity But With C-17 Out Of Production What Could Provide It?

USAF Wants More Airlift Capacity But With C-17 Out Of Production What Could Provide It?

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Jun 5, 2019
The Air Force Found Airmen Boozing It Up In A Nuclear Missile Alert Facility In Wyoming

The Air Force Found Airmen Boozing It Up In A Nuclear Missile Alert Facility In Wyoming

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 28, 2019
A Tornado Touched Down On Or Very Near Wright Patterson Air Force Base In Ohio (Updated)

A Tornado Touched Down On Or Very Near Wright Patterson Air Force Base In Ohio (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 28, 2019
The Air Force Can’t Say What It Plans To Do With Its Retired B-2 Bombers

The Air Force Can’t Say What It Plans To Do With Its Retired B-2 Bombers

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 27, 2019
Boeing’s T-X Jet Trainer Takes to the Air as New Contender Emerges

Boeing’s T-X Jet Trainer Takes to the Air as New Contender Emerges

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 27, 2019
Raptor Nest: To Escape Hurricane Matthew, Dozens Of F-22s Migrate West From Langley AFB

Raptor Nest: To Escape Hurricane Matthew, Dozens Of F-22s Migrate West From Langley AFB

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 27, 2019
You Have To Hear What Keeps The Head Of U.S. Strategic Command Up At Night

You Have To Hear What Keeps The Head Of U.S. Strategic Command Up At Night

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 25, 2019
The Dark World Of USAF Special Ops Air Refuelers And Their Modified KC-135RT Tankers

The Dark World Of USAF Special Ops Air Refuelers And Their Modified KC-135RT Tankers

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 24, 2019
New Hangars Constructed At Edwards AFB Ahead Of B-21 Raider’s Arrival

New Hangars Constructed At Edwards AFB Ahead Of B-21 Raider’s Arrival

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 22, 2019
Has Israel Actually Sent The F-35 Into Combat Already?

Has Israel Actually Sent The F-35 Into Combat Already?

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 20, 2019
The U.S. Military Wants Tiny Road Mobile Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In A C-17

The U.S. Military Wants Tiny Road Mobile Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In A C-17

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 20, 2019
Air Force F-16 Aggressor Jet Emerges In Highly Anticipated “Ghost” Paint Scheme

Air Force F-16 Aggressor Jet Emerges In Highly Anticipated “Ghost” Paint Scheme

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 18, 2019
The Air Force’s New HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter Has Taken Flight For The First Time

The Air Force’s New HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter Has Taken Flight For The First Time

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 18, 2019
Two F-16s Collide During Night Training And The Blue Angels Pay A Flying Tribute To Their Lost Teammate

Two F-16s Collide During Night Training And The Blue Angels Pay A Flying Tribute To Their Lost Teammate

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 17, 2019
Huge Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars As It Drifted Across The Midwest Remains A Mystery

Huge Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars As It Drifted Across The Midwest Remains A Mystery

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 17, 2019
Company Teases New F-16 Flight Sim After Developer Ends Up In Jail Over Buying USAF Manuals

Company Teases New F-16 Flight Sim After Developer Ends Up In Jail Over Buying USAF Manuals

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 17, 2019
New Video Of B-2 Bomber Dropping Mother Of All Bunker Busters Sends Ominous Message

New Video Of B-2 Bomber Dropping Mother Of All Bunker Busters Sends Ominous Message

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 17, 2019
Russia Now Claims It Will Buy 76 Su-57 Advanced Fighter Jets By 2028

Russia Now Claims It Will Buy 76 Su-57 Advanced Fighter Jets By 2028

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 16, 2019
Behold An MC-130J Spec Ops Transport With Its Badly Needed Terrain Following Radar Installed

Behold An MC-130J Spec Ops Transport With Its Badly Needed Terrain Following Radar Installed

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 16, 2019
A B-52H Nicknamed “Wise Guy” Becomes The Second To Ever Come Back From The Bone Yard

A B-52H Nicknamed “Wise Guy” Becomes The Second To Ever Come Back From The Bone Yard

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 15, 2019
Half Of Russia’s Su-57 Fleet Escorted Putin To Military Test Facility Ahead Of Pompeo Meeting (Updated)

Half Of Russia’s Su-57 Fleet Escorted Putin To Military Test Facility Ahead Of Pompeo Meeting (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 15, 2019
Air Force Tests Tiny Personnel Footprint For Operating Fighters In Austere Combat Zones

Air Force Tests Tiny Personnel Footprint For Operating Fighters In Austere Combat Zones

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on May 14, 2019
Shot Down? The USAF Now Wants To Air-Drop An Air Taxi To Fly You Out To Safety

Shot Down? The USAF Now Wants To Air-Drop An Air Taxi To Fly You Out To Safety

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 14, 2019
F-35A Pictured On “Deterrence Mission” Over Middle East With Peculiar Single Missile Loadout

F-35A Pictured On “Deterrence Mission” Over Middle East With Peculiar Single Missile Loadout

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 14, 2019
USAF Fighter Pilots Are Now Flying With These Converted M4 Rifles In Their Survival Kits

USAF Fighter Pilots Are Now Flying With These Converted M4 Rifles In Their Survival Kits

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 11, 2019
Fully Armed F-15Cs Have Arrived In The Middle East Amid Accusations Of Iranian Threats (Updated)

Fully Armed F-15Cs Have Arrived In The Middle East Amid Accusations Of Iranian Threats (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 10, 2019
F-35 Aggressor Squadron To Be Activated At Nellis Air Force Base (Updated)

F-35 Aggressor Squadron To Be Activated At Nellis Air Force Base (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 10, 2019
Canada’s CF-18 Replacement Competition Structure Seems To Have Already Disqualified The F-35

Canada’s CF-18 Replacement Competition Structure Seems To Have Already Disqualified The F-35

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 8, 2019
USAF F-35As Will Get Navy’s New Air Defense Busting Missile Amid Talk Of Anti-Ship Variants

USAF F-35As Will Get Navy’s New Air Defense Busting Missile Amid Talk Of Anti-Ship Variants

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 7, 2019
Historic Northrop Flying Wing Crashed After Doing A “Barrel Roll” According To NTSB (Updated)

Historic Northrop Flying Wing Crashed After Doing A “Barrel Roll” According To NTSB (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 4, 2019
The Air Force Just Shot Down Multiple Missiles With A Laser Destined For Fighter Aircraft

The Air Force Just Shot Down Multiple Missiles With A Laser Destined For Fighter Aircraft

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 3, 2019
Air Force Considering Making Its Next Tanker A Drone With A Podded Refueling Boom

Air Force Considering Making Its Next Tanker A Drone With A Podded Refueling Boom

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 3, 2019
Family Says Land Overlooking Area 51 Is Worth $116M—USAF Says $330k

Family Says Land Overlooking Area 51 Is Worth $116M—USAF Says $330k

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on May 3, 2019
USAF Wants To Turn HC-130J’s Self Defense Suite Into “Sauron’s Eye” Vision System

USAF Wants To Turn HC-130J’s Self Defense Suite Into “Sauron’s Eye” Vision System

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 2, 2019
If The U.S. Isn’t About To Intervene In Venezuela, It Sure Seems To Be Building The Case

If The U.S. Isn’t About To Intervene In Venezuela, It Sure Seems To Be Building The Case

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on May 2, 2019
U.S. Air Force T-6A Turboprop Training Plane Crashed Near Lake in Oklahoma

U.S. Air Force T-6A Turboprop Training Plane Crashed Near Lake in Oklahoma

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 1, 2019
USAF F-35As Flew First-Ever Combat Strikes With Radar Reflectors And Sidewinders Fitted

USAF F-35As Flew First-Ever Combat Strikes With Radar Reflectors And Sidewinders Fitted

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Apr 30, 2019
Boeing’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Trucked To Air Base Near St. Louis For Flight Testing

Boeing’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Trucked To Air Base Near St. Louis For Flight Testing

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 29, 2019
In CAS Of Emergency Grab One Of These Sweet A-10 Warthog T-Shirts!

In CAS Of Emergency Grab One Of These Sweet A-10 Warthog T-Shirts!

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Apr 26, 2019
Pentagon Investigation Says Acting SecDef Shanahan Was Justifiably Critical Of The F-35

Pentagon Investigation Says Acting SecDef Shanahan Was Justifiably Critical Of The F-35

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 25, 2019
Russian MiG-31 Foxhound Shot Down Its Wingman During Disastrous Live Fire Exercise

Russian MiG-31 Foxhound Shot Down Its Wingman During Disastrous Live Fire Exercise

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 24, 2019
We Finally Know How Many F-22s Were Left Behind At Tyndall AFB During Hurricane Michael

We Finally Know How Many F-22s Were Left Behind At Tyndall AFB During Hurricane Michael

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Apr 22, 2019
Tyndall Air Force Base In Ruins After Michael, Fighter Jets Seen Inside Roofless Hangars

Tyndall Air Force Base In Ruins After Michael, Fighter Jets Seen Inside Roofless Hangars

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Apr 22, 2019
More Than A Dozen Air Force KC-135s and KC-46s Flee Kansas Base Ahead Of Bad Weather

More Than A Dozen Air Force KC-135s and KC-46s Flee Kansas Base Ahead Of Bad Weather

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Apr 18, 2019
U.S. Air Force F-35A’s First Combat Deployment To The Middle East Has Begun

U.S. Air Force F-35A’s First Combat Deployment To The Middle East Has Begun

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Apr 15, 2019
Idahoans Sue Air Force To Stop It From Using Their Towns For Targeting Practice

Idahoans Sue Air Force To Stop It From Using Their Towns For Targeting Practice

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 12, 2019
USAF Secretary Gives Ominous Warning That Show Of Force Needed To Deter Space Attacks

USAF Secretary Gives Ominous Warning That Show Of Force Needed To Deter Space Attacks

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Apr 12, 2019
A U-2 Spy Plane Is Flying Peculiar Tracks High Over South Las Vegas (Updated)

A U-2 Spy Plane Is Flying Peculiar Tracks High Over South Las Vegas (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Apr 9, 2019
USAF Reveals Timelines And Basing Plans For Its Huge Adversary Support Contract

USAF Reveals Timelines And Basing Plans For Its Huge Adversary Support Contract

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Apr 9, 2019
Indian Radar Data That Supposedly Proves They Downed An F-16 Is Far From “Irrefutable”

Indian Radar Data That Supposedly Proves They Downed An F-16 Is Far From “Irrefutable”

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Apr 9, 2019
Those Lights In The Sky Seen Across The U.S. Were Big Formations Of Military Airlifters

Those Lights In The Sky Seen Across The U.S. Were Big Formations Of Military Airlifters

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Apr 8, 2019
This Is What The Boom Operator’s Station On The New KC-46 Tanker Actually Looks Like

This Is What The Boom Operator’s Station On The New KC-46 Tanker Actually Looks Like

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Apr 3, 2019
Taiwan Will “Forcibly Expel” Chinese Planes After Recent Taiwan Strait Boundary Violation

Taiwan Will “Forcibly Expel” Chinese Planes After Recent Taiwan Strait Boundary Violation

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 1, 2019
Armada Of B-52s And F-16 Escorts Just Flew Off Norway Resulting In These Gorgeous Photos

Armada Of B-52s And F-16 Escorts Just Flew Off Norway Resulting In These Gorgeous Photos

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Mar 30, 2019
The USAF’s Plan To Move F-22 Training Could Make Langley Air Force Base Raptor Central

The USAF’s Plan To Move F-22 Training Could Make Langley Air Force Base Raptor Central

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Mar 29, 2019
The Air Force Has Grounded Its B-1B Bomber Fleet For The Second Time In A Year

The Air Force Has Grounded Its B-1B Bomber Fleet For The Second Time In A Year

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 28, 2019
Two Interceptors Launched From California To Swat ICBM In Most Ambitious Missile Defense Test Yet (Updated)

Two Interceptors Launched From California To Swat ICBM In Most Ambitious Missile Defense Test Yet (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Mar 26, 2019
The Two Sort Of New Air Force One Jets Now To Cost Nearly The Price Of A Nimitz Class Carrier

The Two Sort Of New Air Force One Jets Now To Cost Nearly The Price Of A Nimitz Class Carrier

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Mar 25, 2019
Air Force To Turn Navy Air Defense Busting Missile Into High-Speed Critical Strike Weapon

Air Force To Turn Navy Air Defense Busting Missile Into High-Speed Critical Strike Weapon

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Mar 19, 2019