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The Air Force is attempting something no service has tried: rebuilding bombers whose newest airframe was delivered in 1962 to fly into the 2050s,...
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The Air Force is attempting something no service has tried: rebuilding bombers whose newest airframe was delivered in 1962 to fly into the 2050s,...
Two hundred miles off the California coast in 1985, an F-15 pilot hauled his fighter into a near-vertical climb and fired an 18-foot missile...
The Iran war was as close to a pure air campaign as America has fought, and James Holmes — who holds the J.C. Wylie...
The Pentagon's most expensive weapon ever can perform its full mission one hour in four, and the trend line points down. Then the program's...
China fields the most warships. China fields the most soldiers. Count military aircraft, though, and the pattern breaks: one country operates nearly a quarter...
The conventional wisdom says America's F-35 has finally surpassed the older F-22 Raptor — more sensors, constant upgrades, an information-warfare machine. But on the...
The F-22 Raptor is famous for stealth, speed, and air dominance, but keeping its low-observable coatings ready takes constant work. Official reports show that...
The Air Force just switched on Flyer, a $20 million supercomputer at Wright-Patterson built to simulate the hypersonic flights that are too fast and...
The U.S. Air Force is seeking a new Air Force Long Range Weapon, or AFLRW, with a planned reach of 1,000 nautical miles. Details...
In the 1950s, American engineers set out to build the ultimate weapon: a nuclear-powered cruise missile that could fly almost indefinitely, cross oceans, and...