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On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Twelve men were on that flight.
Some A-10 Warthogs could get a reprieve from total retirement as Congress moves to reverse some of the Pentagon’s most dramatic Air Force cuts in its proposed fiscal 2026 budget. The Pentagon ...
Steven Parker began his Air Force career at the age of 17, and following basic and military police training, found himself enforcing the law at McConnell Air Force Base, but things quickly changed … ...
I was being honored for my retirement as a four-star general and 37th vice chief of staff of the Air Force.
France formally retired the last of its Boeing KC-135 tankers on 30 June, bringing to an end an operational run with the type which began in 1964.
An Air Force report found that Capt. John Robertson's death on May 13, 2024 likely came from not being properly strapped into his T-6A.
The service moved up its retirement of its final 162 close attack fighters by two years in a new budget request. The Air Force also asked for far fewer F-35s.
The U.S. Air Force plans to accelerate the retirement of the A-10 Thunderbolt II ("Warthog") aircraft, potentially completing the phaseout by 2027. The 2026 budget includes $57 million for the ...
Congress must approve the plan, which would see the US Air Force accelerate retirement of its entire A-10 fleet by two years.
There’s a degree of dysfunction here that isn’t going away regardless of what happens in the Lebanese, Israeli, Syrian, Iranian triangle.
Squirrels have become a source of exasperation for personnel at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, home to nuclear-armed bombers and long-range ballistic missiles.