The U.S. Air Force is facing a severe modernization crisis. Its fleet is shrinking to its smallest size in modern history, ...

With a new generation of aircraft comes a shifting focus for Beale Air Force Base, away from its long-held surveillance and intelligence-gathering mission and toward an autonomous combat fleet ...

As the Pentagon develops sixth-generation fighters like the F-47, experts disagree whether humans should remain in cockpits or if autonomous drones will soon match piloted aircraft.

The ability to take combat-ready aircraft to the skies at a moment’s notice is a key component of Beale’s new mission. Efficiency is just as important, said Air Force officials in ...

Fighter aircraft have always been the cutting edge of air combat. Whether ripping through the skies of Europe in World ...

Despite the promise of a leap in performance, other programs—the U.S. Air Force Boeing F-47, U.S. Navy future F/A-XX and the UK-Italian-Japanese Global Combat Air Program (GCAP)—have passed on ...

The Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk was decided in December 2022. ... “I had 2000 combat hours in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Sledd said.

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Light Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, use a drone to survey the area during Joint Pacific Multinational ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The U.S. Army will field its first Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, commonly known as FLRAA, to the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell ...

The U.S. Army is developing the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) to serve as a next-generation aircraft for vertical lift, air assault, maritime interdiction, aeromedical evacuation ...