The United States Air Force is making one of its most crucial strategic investments in decades, committing $1.5 billion to the E-7 Wedgetail program for fiscal year 2027. This massive funding boost ...

When a US aircraft goes down in combat, rarely used but highly trained airborne search-and-rescue crews spring into action. Multiple American media outlets, citing anonymous US officials, reported the ...

AURORA, Colorado—The U.S. Air Force will in the coming months finalize requirements for how it will take on the airborne nuclear command post mission as the U.S. Navy offloads it from its Take Charge ...

The Air Force is sweeping some of the offices that oversee its acquisition programs into groups with similar missions, part of an effort that aligns with—but also predates—recent acquisition-reform ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A newly promoted lieutenant general will take command of 5th Air Force in Tokyo, a role that until recently was held by the head of U.S. Forces Japan but has now been split as ...

Bomber Task Force missions are never announced in advance and vary in terms of time and location, intended to keep US adversaries unprepared. Even as the longest government shutdown in United States ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - After nearly three decades, a major military mission could come back to Offutt Air Force Base. From 1961 through 1998, Offutt was home to the airborne command post and had the ...