Another contingent of stealth fighters has landed at Kadena Air Base as part of a temporary plan to fill in for retiring F-15 Eagles. Unmanned aerial vehicles from the United States and South ...

One of the newest aircraft to enter service in the U.S. Air Force is the F-35 Lightning II, which is a fifth-generation stealth fighter. It can hit speeds up to 1,200 mph or Mach 1.6 The F-22 ...

Among the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of combat aircraft, a few stand out for their incredible velocity. (Nearly 900 of this stealth fighter jet take to the skies worldwide.) While the latest fifth ...

The Responsive Open Source Engine (ROSE) is designed to be cheap enough that it can be disposable, which has obvious military applications for the Air Force such as small jet-powered drones or ...

A team at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International ... Working with the Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA's Small Business ...

The Air Force inventory of 732 aircraft are more than 50 years old and have been retrofitted several times with new engines, avionics and structural upgrades. Four turbofans, mounted under 35 ...

The following is the Nov. 4, 2024, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Air ...

A bow wave of modernizations — including the Air Force's desire to build a sixth-gen fighter and drone wingmen — has ...

China’s air force is set to officially debut its new stealth fighter jet, the J-35A, giving observers the first look at a ...

(Senior Airman Mark Sulaica/U.S. Air Force) The Air Force is trying to halt an increase in maintenance-related aircraft mishaps by putting new safety training and briefings in place for ...

The Department of the Air Force was created with the signing of the National Security Act of 1947. The Air Force’s missions are broken down into Air and Space Superiority, Global Attack ...

The C-17 Globemaster III is a military cargo jet that can carry what their commercial ... labor using castoff materials. The volunteer force included maintenance crew whose job is to know the ...