AT-6B Texan II Shines at JEFX, But the Future Is Unclear
The Hawker Beechcraft AT-6B Texan II is being tested in realistic, mock-war conditions at a time when the U. S. …
Aerospace
The State of U.S. Air Force Airlift
The state of airlift for the U.S. military, despite a decade of the highest continuous demand since World War II, …
MH-53M Pave Low’s Farewell
The MH-53M Pave Low helicopters of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) flew their last missions supporting combat operations in …
Prompt Global Strike
Is it a substitute for a new bomber? Is it a bold new weapon of war? Or is it a …
A-10 Thunderbolt II
For the first time in almost 33 years of operational service, the A-10 Thunderbolt II has an integrated sustainment/modernization program …
Shiny New Hybrid
National security threats may have changed, but more to the point, they’ve multiplied, analysts say. A superpower can no longer …
Sacrificing Air Sovereignty?
In Pentagon talk, it used to be called air defense. Today it’s commonly known as the Air Sovereignty Alert (ASA) …
U.S. Air Force Year in Review
The United States Air Force is changing.
While airmen perform superbly in Iraq and Afghanistan and in air sovereignty operations …
Fixing Terrorists with the Gorgon Stare
While nobody questions the value and utility of the first generation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems now in the …
F-35B Makes First Vertical Landing
F-35B BF-1 followed up its first “free air” hover earlier in the week with its first vertical landing yesterday, March …