Early year gains reflect a confluence of factors as Trump claims a turnaround. The U.S. military is tracking strong early-year recruiting figures across the services, a signal it will meet or ...

Now the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program has taken things a giant step further, by declaring that the YFQ-42A made by General Atomics and the YFQ-44A from Anduril are now official ...

The Air Force is yet to decide which aircraft type will form the core of its future executive transport fleet, but still hopes to procure the C-40D, a 737 MAX 9, in the interim. Aviation Week ...

New fighter jets or bombers won't be enough to win the next war, the US Air Force director for force design, integration, and wargaming said this week. Instead, the service needs to focus on what ...

The U.S. Air Force wants to recapitalize its executive airlift fleet with a single platform as it faces reduced availability on its current aircraft, and in the meantime still hopes to buy the ...

A shooting just outside Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico left one airman dead and another hospitalized early Saturday morning, the Air Force said. Members of the 377th Security Forces ...

But that’s not what the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is doing, as in its wisdom it sees plenty of uses for much less technologically advanced planes as well. That's because in the USAF books there is ...

Senators are delving into the question of whether the military establishment is prepared to handle mass combat casualties. Shown here, Idaho National Guard members conduct medevac training in 2022.

Easily the most iconic is the presidential plane, actually two different Boeing 747-200Bs often referred to by their shared call sign, Air Force One. Air Force One can stay in the air for some ...

A U.S Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber and Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-15I Ra’am and F-35I Adir fighters conducted a joint training exercise over the Arabian Peninsula in the U.S. CENTCOM ...

Air Force F-16 fighter jets scrambled Sunday to intercept aircraft that entered the airspace over President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida — the second time that’s happened in 48 hours ...

Languages: English. Email: e.palmer@newsweek.com. The U.S. Air Force is facing a readiness crisis, with only around six out of 10 of its fleet mission-capable on an average day in fiscal year 2024 ...