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New system will help the Air Force achieve a 30 percent improvement in fuel efficiency for the iconic bomber.

The U.S. Air Force successfully dropped a cruise missile armed with a live warhead out of a MC-130J over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) announced. The December 16 test at Eglin Air Force Base Overwater Test Range in Florida was a demonstration of the Air Force’s Rapid Dragon, […]

Santa came early this year for dozens of island communities in the South Pacific, powered not by nine reindeer, but instead four Rolls-Royce turboprop power plants, each generating 4,700 horsepower. Last week, U.S. Air Force crew members concluded an annual weeklong airdrop of food, tools, fishing equipment, and clothing out the back of C-130 Hercules […]

The bladder relief devices are aimed at curbing pilots from dehydrating themselves before flights.

At Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier honors those lost in action without a name. This Veterans Day—November 11—will mark 100 years since the first burial there from World War I. Because the smallest details shed light on the past, the Society of the Honor Guard for the TUS is […]

Ahead of the Dubai Air Show this week in the United Arab Emirates, Boeing gave an update on its T-7 training platform program for the initial contractor, the U.S. Air Force. Program manager and vice president Paul Niewald delivered the briefing on the T-7 from the current lead aircraft position on the production line, where […]

U.S. military cargo aircraft are one step closer to delivering long-range strike weapons en masse, according to an announcement by the U.S. Air Force. The announcement comes after a demonstration Wednesday of a new Air Force rapid development program which aims to turn mobility aircraft into bombers. The program, called Rapid Dragon, involved Boeing C-17 […]

Mission controllers for Inspiration4 have updated the launch window for SpaceX’s next crewed mission to Earth orbit, launching from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. A new five-hour launch window begins at 8:02 p.m. ET on Wednesday, according to a statement. The window is based on an updated weather forecast for the launch site and possible landing […]

There was big disappointment in southern California’s aviation community this week as it was announced that the Los Angeles Air Show, scheduled to take place in Lancaster on October 23 and 24, has been canceled. “The mounting challenges of resurrecting an air show at William J. Fox Airfield, combined with numerous complications created by the […]

As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United States Air Force’s most senior uniformed officer, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is responsible for the organization, training and equipping of 689,000 active-duty National Guard, Reserve and civilian forces serving in the US and overseas. A military adviser to the secretary of defense, […]