After 25 years of operation, the US Air Force officially retired this pioneering fighter jet, but plans to keep using it ...

The 562nd Electronic Warfare Squadron will help airmen at Nellis Air Force Base deal with "contested electronic environments.

Key Points and Summary - The Air Force may upgrade 35 older F-22 Block 20 Raptors once slated for retirement, converting training airframes into combat-coded jets to bolster stealth capacity before ...

The first F-47, Boeing's successful pitch for the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter aircraft, is now being built and will fly for the first time in 2028, Gen. David Allvin said. (Air Force) The ...

Airmen perform maintenance on an A-10C Thunderbolt II at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Nov. 17, 2025. (SrA Iain Stanley/Air Force) In a future war against China or other advanced adversary, Air Force ...

Shortfalls in staffing, organization and training could undermine the Air Force’s execution of its maneuver concept for modern warfare, according to a recent report. Introduced in late 2021, the Agile ...

The USAF remains the world's largest, but its number of crewed aircraft is shrinking as the PLAAF grows in numbers. Its UAV fleet is on the up though.

A $1.5 trillion defense budget is a prudent and reasonable re-leveling of defense investment in historical proportion of GDP, ...

A YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft test aircraft is staged in Poway, Calif., May 19, 2025. The Department of the Air Force has begun ground testing for the CCA program to validate performance and ...

Maryland Air National Guard troops prepare for the departure of the final flight of an A-10C Thunderbolt at Warfield Air National Guard Base, Maryland. (Airman 1st Class Sarah Hoover/U.S. Air National ...

When the Korean War began in 1950, the United States entered a new era of air combat it barely understood. Pilots trained for the piston-engine battles of World War II suddenly faced jet fighters that ...