5+ hour, 19+ min ago   (898+ words) “A lot of things surprised me in a good way,” said Lt. Gen. Derek C. France, who completed his tour last month as Air Forces Central commander and the Combined Forces Air Component Commander for U.S. Central Command on…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (720+ words) One year into a new campaign to boost readiness rates for the B-1B Lancer and B-52H Stratofortress bombers, Air Force Global Strike Command is claiming some early wins and planning to forge ahead with more improvements. The Air Force no longer releases…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1610+ words) Over the past few months and peaking in August, crews with the 910th Airlift Wing out of Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, have been running nighttime, low-flying missions to kill a ubiquitous and deadly adversary that’s plagued Americans for centuries—mosquitoes....

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (314+ words) U.S. Space Command maneuvered satellites across low-, medium-, and geosynchronous orbits in an exercise early this month, advancing the command’s push to master dynamic operations in space. SPACECOM announced the completion of Apollo Maneuvers 2026 in a Sept. 8 release, a month after…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (677+ words) General Atomics has unveiled the first renderings of its Wildfire drone, which it plans to pitch for the Air Force’s hunt for a new, low-cost Massed Modular Aircraft. The images provide hints of the drone’s expected capabilities. One image shows…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (693+ words) Startups Anduril Industries and Heremus have agreed to integrate Anduril’s autonomy software onto Hermeus’ hypersonic demonstrator aircraft “Quarterhorse”—uniting two technologies that have drawn keen interest and investment from the Air Force. The firms announced the deal Sept. 3 and said…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (855+ words) The Department of the Air Force’s new equal opportunity and harassment policy, rolled out to comply with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s directives, redefines key terms and empowers commanders to dismiss complaints they deem not actionable. The new rules also bar…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (682+ words) After months of delays from a factory strike, the first F-15EX fighter jet the U.S. Air Force will permanently base overseas left Boeing’s facilities in St. Louis on Aug. 28. Eventually, the aircraft will fly to Kadena Air Base in Japan and join…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (690+ words) The Air Force Research Laboratory has signaled to industry it wants to develop a low-cost hypersonic cruise missile to deliver a wide range of payloads at a range up to 500 nautical miles. That note signals an openness to using 3D printing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (514+ words) The Air Force’s decision to more than double its purchase of F-15EX Eagle II jets may bolster the service’s fighter fleet, but it also comes with risks and questions officials will have to manage in the years ahead, a new…...