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Boeing To End F/A-18 Super Hornet Production In Two Years
Air

Boeing To End F/A-18 Super Hornet Production In Two Years

By Joseph Trevithick, Oliver Parken

Posted on Feb 24, 2023

Our Best Look Yet At The Chinese Spy Balloon’s Massive Payload
Air

Our Best Look Yet At The Chinese Spy Balloon’s Massive Payload

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 22, 2023

U-2 Pilot’s Selfie Flying Alongside Chinese Spy Balloon Leaks (Updated)
Air

U-2 Pilot’s Selfie Flying Alongside Chinese Spy Balloon Leaks (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Feb 21, 2023

F-16 BALLOON INTERCEPT
Air

Listen To F-16 Pilots Intercept The Octagon Object Over Lake Huron

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 13, 2023

Octagonal Object shoot down Lake Huron
Air

F-16 Shoots Down “Octagonal Object” Over Lake Huron (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Feb 12, 2023

F-22 shoot down
Air

F-22 Shoots Down Another Object, This Time Over Canada (Updated)

By Stetson Payne

Posted on Feb 11, 2023

A-10
Air

A-10 Warthog Emerges In New Camouflage

By Oliver Parken

Updated on Feb 10, 2023

F-22 Balloon shoot down china
Air

The Shooting Down Of China’s Spy Balloon In Moment-By-Moment Audio

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Feb 7, 2023

U-2 Spy Planes Snooped On Chinese Surveillance Balloon
Air

U-2 Spy Planes Snooped On Chinese Surveillance Balloon

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 6, 2023

Chinese Spy Balloon shot down
Air

F-22 Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off Carolinas With Missile (Updated)

By Stetson Payne, Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 4, 2023

MAC MC-130
Air

C-130 Seaplane Program Put On Back Burner (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Updated on Feb 2, 2023

Gambit Drone Chosen To Fly Under Secretive Off-Board Sensing Station Program
Air

Gambit Drone Chosen To Fly Under Secretive Off-Board Sensing Station Program

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

Air Force Says It Needs More Survivable Tankers By 2040
Air

Air Force Says It Needs More Survivable Tankers By 2040

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

New Shots Of Stealthy XQ-58A Valkyrie Highlight Its Runway Independence
Air

New Shots Of Stealthy XQ-58A Valkyrie Highlight Its Runway Independence

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

F-35 Thule Air Base greenland
Air

F-35s Have Debuted At Greenland’s Strategic Thule Air Base

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

DARPA's Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept completes final flight
Air

DARPA’s Hypersonic Cruise Missile Flew Its Final Test, Follow-On To Come

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

F-15E Confromal Fuel Tanks F-15EX
Air

F-15E Strike Eagles Now Flying Without Conformal Fuel Tanks On Air Defense Missions

By Jamie Hunter

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

Air Mobility Command Boss Predicts War With China In 2025 In Dire Memo
Air

Air Mobility Command Boss Predicts War With China In 2025 In Dire Memo

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

Air Force Aggressors More Relevant Than Ever At 50
Air

Air Force Aggressors More Relevant Than Ever At 50

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Jan 27, 2023

Boeing stealth transport tanker
Air

Stealthy Tanker-Transport Aircraft Concept Unveiled By Boeing

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 26, 2023

F-15EX First Operational Units Will Not Get Conformal Fuel Tanks (Updated)
Air

F-15EX First Operational Units Will Not Get Conformal Fuel Tanks (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

New Nuke-Sniffing Jet Flies Off South America On First International Mission
News & Features

New Nuke-Sniffing Jet Flies Off South America On First International Mission

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 19, 2023

ODNI report
News & Features

Highly Anticipated Government Report On UFOs Very Thin On New Details

By Oliver Parken, Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 13, 2023

B21 Raider vs B2
Air

The B-21 Raider Is And Isn’t A ‘B-2 Spirit 2.0’

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jan 11, 2023

F-35 Technology Refresh 3
Air

F-35 Has Flown With Its New Computer Backbone For The First Time

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 11, 2023

CENTCOM's Air Force innovation Task Force 99
Air

Task Force 99 Is Small, Agile, And Laser Focused On Its Own Backyard

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 10, 2023

‘Retired’ F-117 Nighthawks Will Fly For Another Decade
Air

‘Retired’ F-117 Nighthawks Will Fly For Another Decade

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 9, 2023

HH-60W Jolly Green II on first operational deployment
Air

HH-60W Jolly Green II Helicopters Sent To Africa On First Deployment

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 5, 2023

RC-26B
Air

RC-26 Condor Surveillance Planes Meet The End Of Their U.S. Military Career

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 4, 2023

SHANDONG CV-17
Sea

Mock Attack On U.S. Navy Vessels Underway During Chinese Fighter’s ‘Unsafe Intercept’

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 30, 2022

Intercept China US South China Sea
News & Features

Pentagon Releases Video Of Chinese J-11 Fighter Making ‘Unsafe Intercept’ On U.S. Jet

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Dec 30, 2022

USAF First F-16 kill
Air

First AIM-120 AMRAAM And U.S. F-16 Kill Happened 30 Years Ago

By Oliver Parken, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 28, 2022

The F-35B Can Eject Its Pilot Automatically
Air

The F-35B Can Eject Its Pilot Automatically

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 22, 2022

B-2 Spirit Bomber prepares for take-off at Whiteman Air Force Base
Air

Runway At Whiteman AFB Reopens After B-2 Landing Incident

By Emma Helfrich

Updated on Dec 21, 2022

F22 JB
Air

F-22 Test Pilot Details The Raptor’s Incredible Speed

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 21, 2022

Army and Air Force team up to simulate hot pit refueling an M1A2 Abrams tank with a C-130J Super Hercules
Air

C-130 Simulates Refueling M1 Abrams Tank During Exercise

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Dec 21, 2022

Newest Air Force E-11A BACN Networking Jet Deploys To Saudi Arabia
Air

Newest Air Force E-11A BACN Networking Jet Deploys To Saudi Arabia

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 20, 2022

B-2 Spirit Stealth bomber still damaged on Whiteman Air Force Base's only runway
Air

Crashed B-2 Still Blocking Whiteman AFB’s Runway, Spirit Fleet Grounded

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Dec 19, 2022

Mayhem Hypersonic Strike-Recon Jet Contract Awarded To Leidos
Air

Mayhem Hypersonic Strike-Recon Jet Contract Awarded To Leidos

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 17, 2022

JDAM Operation Iraqi Freedom
News & Features

What Joint Direct Attack Munitions Could Do For Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 15, 2022

B-1B Bomber’s New Ultra Long-Range Focus Hints At Future B-21 Ops
Air

B-1B Bomber’s New Ultra Long-Range Focus Hints At Future B-21 Ops

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 14, 2022

ATB Skunk Works Lockheed Senior Peg
Air

This Is What Lockheed’s Stealth Bomber Would Have Looked Like

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Dec 13, 2022

Whiteman Air Force Base's only runway closed
Air

Runway At Whiteman AFB Remains Closed After B-2 Bomber Accident

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Dec 12, 2022

Success! Air Force’s First Hypersonic Weapon Completes Full Test With Flying Colors
Air

Success! Air Force’s First Hypersonic Weapon Completes Full Test With Flying Colors

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 12, 2022

B-2 Whiteman
Air

B-2 Stealth Bomber Damaged During Emergency Landing

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Dec 11, 2022

B-21 test pilots
Air

B-21 Raider Test Pilots Talk About Its Upcoming First Flight

By Howard Altman

Posted on Dec 4, 2022

B-21 hangar
Air

This Is The B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway, Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 3, 2022

new topshot f-15e
Air

F-15Es Brandish Live Munitions During Drills With Israel Aimed At Iran

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 2, 2022

Exercise Spirit Vigilance
Air

Behold 40% Of B-2 Bomber Fleet Executing An ‘Elephant Walk’

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 30, 2022

Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber
Air

First B-21 Raider Test Jet Aims To More Closely Mirror Production Examples

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Nov 29, 2022

Raytheon’s Weapon Triad Targets A Future Of Air Dominance
Air

Raytheon’s Weapon Triad Targets A Future Of Air Dominance

By Jamie Hunter

Posted on Nov 28, 2022

Air Force mounts dual M240 machine guns to HH-60G Pave Hawk
Air

Check Out The New Twin M240 Door Guns For HH-60 Rescue Helicopters

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Nov 23, 2022

Autonomy With Limits Essential For Future Drones Air Force Generals Say (Updated)
Air

Autonomy With Limits Essential For Future Drones Air Force Generals Say (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 19, 2022

WILD_DUCKS_TOPSHOT
Air

Luke’s Last F-16 Squadron Sends Its Block 25 Vipers To The Boneyard

By Jamie Hunter

Posted on Nov 15, 2022

X-58A Valkyrie drones arrive at Eglin Air Force Base
Air

XQ-58A Valkyrie Drone Has Joined Eglin Air Force Base’s Test Wing

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Nov 11, 2022

432nd FW F-15E
News & Features

What It’s Really Like Going From Flying Air Force F-15s To Airline 737s

By Jamie Hunter

Posted on Nov 10, 2022

Special Ops C-130 Tests Pallet-Dropped Cruise Missiles In The Arctic
Air

Special Ops C-130 Tests Pallet-Dropped Cruise Missiles In The Arctic

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 9, 2022

A-10s Train With Air-Launched Decoys Alongside B-1B Bombers
Air

A-10s Train With Air-Launched Decoys Alongside B-1B Bombers

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 9, 2022

Electronic Warfare in future conflicts
Air

Air Force’s Electronic Warfare Boss On Fighting Future Conflicts In The Most Contested Domain

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Nov 8, 2022

XQ-58A Valkyrie Flies Longer, Higher, Heavier In Recent Test
Air

XQ-58A Valkyrie Flies Longer, Higher, Heavier In Recent Test

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 4, 2022

A-10 Warthogs Are Operating From A Tent Village In Palau
Air

A-10 Warthogs Are Operating From A Tent Village In Palau

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 2, 2022

BACN Mediterranean
Air

Air Force’s Prized BACN Networking Jets Now Operating Over The Mediterranean

By Amelia Smith, The War Zone staff

Posted on Oct 31, 2022

B52 australia upgrade tindal
News & Features

Australian Airbase Gets Upgrades For American Bomber Deployments

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 31, 2022

KC-46 Pegasus Tanker Flies With A Single Pilot At The Controls
Air

KC-46 Pegasus Tanker Flies With A Single Pilot At The Controls

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Oct 29, 2022