The prevalence of slow-moving uncrewed aircraft systems targeting U.S. interests in the Middle East prompted a back-of-the-napkin idea—and then a software update—to take them down using cheaper, laser ...

Never before in history has any fighter jet carried an arsenal of up to 50 precision-guided air-to-air missiles—until now, as ...

The U.S. Air Force confirmed that F-16 fightes used Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System 70mm guided rockets in the air-to-air role in combat to shoot down Houthi drones. The U.S. Air Force has ...

The photo shows Air Force Master Sgt. Eric Burks reenlisting as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off the launchpad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Jeff Schogol Feb 24, 2025 1:11 PM EST ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this ...

The Department of the Air Force has suspended plans to use an isolated Pacific island as a test site for landing rockets as it considers alternative sites. The service had chosen Johnston Atoll ...

The Air Force has proposed a test program that calls for up to 10 reentry vehicle landings at a site to be built at a remote wildlife refuge in the Pacific Ocean. Environmentalists are now suing ...

Johnston Island was used in the 1950s and 1960s for rocket launches in support of nuclear tests, according to the Air Force Space and Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Between 1958 and 1975 ...

Rocket Lab signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force to launch a rocket-based system experiment. The spacecraft maker said Thursday the deal was for its Neutron rocket in a point-to-point ...

WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk's SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a ...