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New Air Force F-16 Aggressor Squadron Stands Up
Air

New Air Force F-16 Aggressor Squadron Stands Up

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 16, 2023

F-15 Seen Damaged In Drainage Canal After Landing Mishap (Updated)
Air

F-15 Seen Damaged In Drainage Canal After Landing Mishap (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on May 16, 2023

AC-130 Gunship AESA
Air

AC-130J Ghostrider Could Get Huge Upgrade From AESA Radar

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on May 15, 2023

T-7 Red Hawk delays
Air

T-7A Delays Compound Pilot Shortage, Expose Digital Engineering Pitfalls

By Jan Tegler

Posted on May 12, 2023

New Era Of Deception Tactics Key To Air Force Surviving Pacific Fight
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New Era Of Deception Tactics Key To Air Force Surviving Pacific Fight

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on May 8, 2023

MOP Bunker Buster
Air

Our Best Look Yet At The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bunker Buster Bomb

By Oliver Parken

Posted on May 4, 2023

Reaper MQ-9 Wyoming
Air

MQ-9 Reaper Has Operated From A Highway For The First Time

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on May 3, 2023

Air Force personnel make their way into nuclear missile silo B-06
Air

Watch Air Force Security Forces Train To Recapture A Nuclear Missile Silo

By Oliver Parken

Posted on May 3, 2023

Classified AIM-260 Air-To-Air Missiles To Arm Future Air Force Drones
Air

Classified AIM-260 Air-To-Air Missiles To Arm Future Air Force Drones

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 2, 2023

Elephant Walk Holloman
Air

Take An MQ-9 Reaper’s View Of Holloman Air Force Base’s Elephant Walk

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on May 2, 2023

F-22s Intercepted “Spherical Object” Off Hawaii In Latest Balloon Chase
Air

F-22s Intercepted “Spherical Object” Off Hawaii In Latest Balloon Chase

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 2, 2023

F-35 Patrols Near Russia Highlight Case For Cognitive Electronic Warfare
Air

F-35 Patrols Near Russia Highlight Case For Cognitive Electronic Warfare

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 28, 2023

An HH-60W Jolly Green II connected with a HC-130J
Air

Air Force Admits New HH-60Ws Rescue Helicopters Not “Particularly Helpful” In China Fight

By Tyler Rogoway, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Apr 28, 2023

F-117 Nighthawk Low level
Air

F-117 Nighthawks Caught Roaring Through A Canyon In Awesome Images

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 25, 2023

SDB A-10 Warthog
Air

A-10 Warthog To Soon Carry 16 Small Diameter Bombs In Combat

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Apr 25, 2023

Moment E-6B ‘Doomsday Plane’ Crew Ordered ICBM Launch Seen In Image (Updated)
Air

Moment E-6B ‘Doomsday Plane’ Crew Ordered ICBM Launch Seen In Image (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 24, 2023

RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Drones May Have Flown Sorties Off Crimea
Air

RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Drones May Have Flown Sorties Off Crimea

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 20, 2023

Russian Su-35 Encounters Over Syria Seen In Newly Declassified Videos
News & Features

Russian Su-35 Encounters Over Syria Seen In Newly Declassified Videos

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 20, 2023

Air Force Announces F-15EXs Are Headed To Two New Bases
Air

Air Force Announces F-15EXs Are Headed To Two New Bases

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 19, 2023

B-2 Stealth Bomber Spotted In Hawaii During Fleet-Wide Grounding (Updated)
Air

B-2 Stealth Bomber Spotted In Hawaii During Fleet-Wide Grounding (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 18, 2023

B-1B Cope India
Air

B-1B Lancers Fight With And Against Indian Air Force In Historic First

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Apr 18, 2023

A-10 Warthogs Sent To Boneyard For The First Time In Years
Air

A-10 Warthogs Sent To Boneyard For The First Time In Years

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 13, 2023

How The F-35’s Lack Of Spare Parts Became As Big A Threat As Enemy Missiles
Air

How The F-35’s Lack Of Spare Parts Became As Big A Threat As Enemy Missiles

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Apr 13, 2023

Air Defender 23 will be NATO's largest air exercise in history
News & Features

NATO Will Hold Its Biggest Air Exercise In History This Summer

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Apr 13, 2023

F-22 Raptor pilots are testing the new Next-Generation Fixed Wing Helmet
Air

F-22 Raptor Pilots Give New Helmets A Spin

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Apr 12, 2023

Retirement Of MC-130H Speeds Up MC-130J Low-Flying Radar Upgrade
Air

Retirement Of MC-130H Speeds Up MC-130J Low-Flying Radar Upgrade

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 11, 2023

The AFRL's Networked Weapons Laboratory is using small drones to develop missiles
Air

How The Air Force Is Using Small Drones To Prove Big Capabilities

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Apr 10, 2023

Navy Carrier-Based Drones Will Be Able To Be Controlled By The Air Force
Sea

Navy Carrier-Based Drones Will Be Able To Be Controlled By The Air Force

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 5, 2023

Navy Drops Air Force’s Mission From Its Next ‘Doomsday Plane’
Sea

Navy Drops Air Force’s Mission From Its Next ‘Doomsday Plane’

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Apr 4, 2023

AGM-183 ARRW
Air

Air Force Pulls Plug On Much-Hyped Hypersonic Missile

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 31, 2023

KC-135 stratotanker
Air

KC-135 Tankers To Finally Get Fuel-Saving Winglets

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 28, 2023

Eglin F-16 CCA autonomy
Air

Six F-16s Getting Autonomous Computer Brains For Combat Drone Trials

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Mar 28, 2023

Big Emphasis On ‘Spectral Warfare’ In Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance Plans
Air

Big Emphasis On ‘Spectral Warfare’ In Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance Plans

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 27, 2023

E-3 balloon intercept texas
Air

Balloon Intercepted By U.S. Air Force Over Texas

By Tyler Rogoway, Howard Altman

Updated on Mar 26, 2023

Aerial Refueling Boom
Air

Podded Aerial Refueling Boom Design Has Been Completed For Air Force

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 24, 2023

F-15E Syria Iran
Air

F-15Es Strike Back After Deadly Iranian-Made Drone Attack On U.S. Base In Syria (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Posted on Mar 24, 2023

Tinker Air Force Base E-3 Sentry aircraft perform an elephant walk
Air

E-3 Sentry Jets Elephant Walk During Dangerous Weather Escape Drill

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Mar 23, 2023

RC-135 Finland
Air

U.S. RC-135 Surveillance Jet Has Flown Unprecedented Mission Over Finland (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 23, 2023

Air Force already requesting funding to modernize the B-21 Raider bomber
Air

Air Force Asking For Funds To Modernize B-21 Before It Has Even Flown

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Mar 21, 2023

F-15EX Conformal Tank Funds Sought, Fleet Size Questions Reemerge (Updated)
Air

F-15EX Conformal Tank Funds Sought, Fleet Size Questions Reemerge (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 20, 2023

E-7 radar jet USAF
Air

This Is What USAF’s Future E-7 Radar Jet Is Actually Capable Of

By Howard Altman

Posted on Mar 20, 2023

F-15E Strike Eagle Fleet To Be Slashed By Over Half: Report
Air

F-15E Strike Eagle Fleet To Be Slashed By Over Half: Report

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 16, 2023

Su-27 MQ-9 Black Sea
Air

MQ-9 Sensor Video Showing Collision With Russian Su-27 Released (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 16, 2023

U-2 retirement
Air

U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Planes Are Facing The Axe Again: Report

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Mar 16, 2023

MQ-9 Su-27 VIDEO
Air

Video Purports To Show Russian Su-27’s Close Encounter With An MQ-9 (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 15, 2023

AIM-9X Reaper
Air

MQ-9 Reaper Is Capable Of Defending Itself With Air-To-Air Missiles

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Mar 15, 2023

Russian Su-27 Collided With U.S. MQ-9 Over Black Sea (Updated)
Air

Russian Su-27 Collided With U.S. MQ-9 Over Black Sea (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on Mar 14, 2023

KC-10 Retirement budget
Air

Hundreds Of Aircraft Headed To The Boneyard In New USAF Budget

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 13, 2023

F-15EX 104 inventory
Air

F-15EX Eagle II Total Buy Increases From 80 To 104 In New USAF Budget

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 13, 2023

‘Affordable Mass’ Concept Driving Air Force’s New Advanced Drone Initiative
Air

‘Affordable Mass’ Concept Driving Air Force’s New Advanced Drone Initiative

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 11, 2023

C-130J simulator explores one pilot-one loadmaster concept
Air

Single Pilot C-130J Operations Being Explored By Air Force

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Mar 10, 2023

KC Campbell Pilot A-10 Iraq missile landing
Air

A-10 Pilot’s Diary Entry From The Day She Was Nearly Shot Down

By Kim “KC” Campbell, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 9, 2023

USAF Testing ‘Mutant’ Missiles That Twist In Mid-Air To Hit Their Targets
Air

USAF Testing ‘Mutant’ Missiles That Twist In Mid-Air To Hit Their Targets

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 9, 2023

Air Force boss says Block 4 electronic warfare capabilities critical to F-35 program
Air

New Electronic Warfare Suite Top Feature Of F-35 Block 4, Air Combat Boss Says

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Mar 9, 2023

F-15EX
Air

Buying Just 80 F-15EXs Makes No Sense

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Mar 9, 2023

NGAD
Air

200 NGAD Fighters, 1,000 Advanced Drones In USAF’s Future Plans

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 7, 2023

MQ-9 Special Operations Sky Guardian
Air

USAF Special Ops Buys MQ-9B SkyGuardians To Test Air-Launched Drone Concepts

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Mar 7, 2023

B-21 Raider
Air

B-21 Raider Seen From Above In New Image

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Mar 7, 2023

JDAM-ER Trial
Air

Winged JDAM Smart Bombs Are Now Operational In Ukraine

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 7, 2023

AC-130 Ghostrider
Air

AC-130J Gunship Unleashes Hell On South Korean Island

By Oliver Parken, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 7, 2023

C-130 no markings AMC
Air

Air Mobility Command’s Fleet Of Tankers, Cargo Planes Go Incognito

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Mar 4, 2023

KC-46 Airfield Marking Pattern
Air

KC-46 Expands Its Austere Airfield Capabilities, Could Include Roadways In Future

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Mar 4, 2023

Rolls-Royce testing new F130 engines for B-52 CERP
Air

Rolls-Royce Offers Peek At The B-52’s New Engines Undergoing Testing

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Mar 2, 2023

E-7 WEDGETAIL
Air

Air Force Orders First E-7 Jets To Replace Aging E-3 Sentry

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 1, 2023