The US Air Force Just Hit Its 1,500-Pilot Goal, But The Real Shortage Will Take 20 Years To Fix
Why the USAF's training victory is just the first hurdle.
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page 1 of 3Why Restarting A 1990s Airlifter Could Be The US Air Force's Fastest Path To 2040s Capability
The US Air Force is considering restarting C-17 production after more than a decade. But can Boeing still rebuild the line before NGAL arrives?
Inside The $1.4 Billion Program The US Air Force Just Stood Up At Grand Forks To Defend Its Own Bases
The USAF is up-arming its close-in base air defenses.
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How A Pacific Conflict Would Need Every Tanker The US Air Force Owns
The Pacific would demand every tanker the USAF could muster, but how such a conflict would eventually evolve and end is unknowable.
The US Air Force Has 113 KC-46 Tankers & Almost None Are Based In The Pacific
Why the Pegasus doesn't roam very far... yet.
The Real Reason Why The US Air Force Rejected The B-52's Purpose-Built Radome From Its Modernization
The US Air Force is modernizing the B-52 with a new AESA radar while retaining its existing radome.
Why The US Air Force Is Scrapping 119 F-15E Strike Eagles But Keeping The Other 99
The changing of the guard begins.
The US Air Force Just Ended Boeing's Monopoly On Its Most Strategic Bunker-Buster With A $149 Million Deal
The USAF's push to rebuild its stockpile of key ordnance.
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The US Air Force Retired Its Most Capable Tanker & Replaced It With A Downgrade
A troubled transition for the USAF.
USAF receives FQ-42 Vengeance as CCA programme advances
The US Air Force (USAF) has taken delivery of a new FQ-42 Vengeance uncrewed combat aircraft at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.
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Why The US Air Force May Keep The RQ-4 Global Hawk Flying Into The 2030s
The need for resilience, a wider ISR portfolio, and immature space-based capabilities mean the RQ-4 will continue to fly to 2033.
Why The US Air Force Is Quietly Retiring Its Entire T-38 Talon Training Fleet Ahead Of Schedule
The Air Force is not yet retiring its T-38 Talons, and it expects to fly them into the mid-2030s, phasing them out as replacement T-7s arrive.
Why The US Air Force Is Sending A Third Of Its KC-46 Tanker Fleet To The Pacific
The Asia-Pacific is one of the most important regions of planning for the USAF, Marines, and Navy with the KC-46 taking a central planning role.
The US Air Force Just Asked Its Standard C-130J To Do The Ski-Equipped LC-130's Job In Iceland
Standard-configuration Super Hercules are demonstrating that they can do some of the missions that previously required a special-mission LC-130H.
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F-22 pilot receives USAF’s highest safety award after belly landing
The US Air Force has presented its highest flight safety award to an F-22 Raptor pilot who landed…
AeroTime•Clement Charpentreau12 SeptThe US Air Force Just Admitted AI Cannot Replace A 2nd Pilot On The B-21 Raider
The USAF isn't ready to go all-in on AI with its latest and greatest warbird.
The US Air Force Just Bought A Stripped-Down Radar To Keep The B-52 Relevant Into The 2040s
Budget overruns force the BUFF to cut back.
Why The US Air Force Is Spending Nearly $1 Billion To Rebuild 1 Base For Just 21 F-15EX Jets
Purchasing fighter jets and other warplanes, training pilots, building support infrastructure, and maintenance facilities is more expensive.
Why The US Air Force Is Betting Its Newest Stealth Fighters On A Hurricane-Flattened Florida Coastline
Building up a strategic air base in Hurricane Alley to deploy new stealth jets.
Why The US Air Force Flew B-52s At 70 Degrees Of Bank While Connected To A Tanker
A viral video captured the US Air Force performing a seemingly impossible maneuver with a B-52 bomber.