Another contingent of stealth fighters has landed at Kadena Air Base as part of a temporary plan to fill in for retiring F-15 Eagles. Unmanned aerial vehicles from the United States and South ...
One of the newest aircraft to enter service in the U.S. Air Force is the F-35 Lightning II, which is a fifth-generation stealth fighter. It can hit speeds up to 1,200 mph or Mach 1.6 The F-22 ...
Among the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of combat aircraft, a few stand out for their incredible velocity. (Nearly 900 of this stealth fighter jet take to the skies worldwide.) While the latest fifth ...
The Air Force inventory of 732 aircraft are more than 50 years old and have been retrofitted several times with new engines, avionics and structural upgrades. Four turbofans, mounted under 35 ...
The Responsive Open Source Engine (ROSE) is designed to be cheap enough that it can be disposable, which has obvious military applications for the Air Force such as small jet-powered drones or ...
Stung by the exorbitant cost of its new stealth fighter, the US Air Force is demanding a radical redesign of the ...
The following is the Nov. 4, 2024, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Air ...
A bow wave of modernizations — including the Air Force's desire to build a sixth-gen fighter and drone wingmen — has ...
China’s air force is set to officially debut its new stealth fighter jet, the J-35A, giving observers the first look at a ...
The 100th Maintenance Squadron's aircraft metals technology technicians aim to achieve the highest levels of precision when grinding, welding, fabricating or repairing parts for Team Mildenhall ...
(Senior Airman Mark Sulaica/U.S. Air Force) The Air Force is trying to halt an increase in maintenance-related aircraft mishaps by putting new safety training and briefings in place for ...
In July, the Pentagon announced that it would upgrade Kadena's air power by replacing the aging F-15C/D Eagle fighter jets with the successor F-15EX Eagle II aircraft, while the U.S. Air Force ...