Share this story An F-16 Fighting Falcon belonging to the 149th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard came down in rural northern Michigan on Thursday afternoon. The pilot ejected and was recovered alive. That last sentence is the story. Everything else is...
Share this story The U.S. Air Force has been flying its fighter drones for over a year. It has tested them, taxied them, launched them from austere strips and flown one alongside an F-35. What it has never done is put them into a proper war. In December, it will....
Share this story The AIM-260 was supposed to be in squadron service in 2022. It is September 2026, the missile is still in development, and the first photograph of one only surfaced four months ago. For a weapon the U.S. Air Force calls essential to winning the next...
Share this story The ramp at Pituffik is wet, grey and running with meltwater. Behind it a ridge of bare rock streaked with old snow. A marshaller in olive fleece walks backwards with both arms up, and an F-35A Lightning II rolls towards him with WI stencilled on the...
Share this story When the Pentagon shelved the Navy’s sixth-generation fighter last year, the official reason was that American industry could not develop and build two of them at once. A lot of people did not believe it. The Air Force general who advises the Pentagon...
Share this story The United States has not bought an F-16 for itself in more than twenty years. That may be about to change, and the proposed designation tells you how far the idea has already travelled: F-16G. Air & Space Forces Magazine reported on 16 September...
Share this story Asked at a press roundtable whether the US Air Force would like to build new C-17s, the general in charge of American airlift did not hedge for long. “Heck yeah,” said Lt. Gen. Daniel Tulley, head of Air Mobility Command. Then came the...
Share this story The first thing the world saw was a tailfin. Scorched, standing upright in a burnt patch of Marib scrub, with the green and white of the Saudi flag still legible through the soot. On 16 September 2026, Yemen’s Houthi movement — formally Ansar Allah —...
Share this story Air Combat Command’s director of operations stood up at the Air, Space and Cyber conference this week and said the F-35 “absolutely proved itself” in combat over Iran.He is right. He also attached a condition to the sentence that is...
Share this story For as long as the United States has had an independent Air Force, defending its airfields against attack from the sky has been somebody else’s job. Specifically, the Army’s.That arrangement is quietly collapsing, and at the Air, Space and...
Share this story Somewhere over Africa this spring, a four-engine turboprop that first flew in 1954 rolled its ramp open and pushed a missile out the back. The missile fell clear, unfolded its wings, lit a small turbojet and flew away. Minutes later it was several...
Share this story On the morning of 21 August 1976, B-52s flew in from Guam with Phantom escorts. F-111s crossed the Pacific from Idaho. Fighters launched from Kadena, Clark, Osan and Taegu. South Korean F-5s and Sabres joined the stack. An aircraft carrier task force...
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