How Many U-2 Spy Planes Were Built?

Many of the aircraft that lived to retirement are now on display both in the US and in Europe. The Lockheed U-2 was a black ...
National Security Journal on MSN

Boeing X-32B stealth fighter deserves a better fate than this

B, the Joint Strike Fighter contender that lost to Lockheed Martin’s X-35 (now the F-35), survives in just two museum ...
National Security Journal on MSN

The stealth fighter that got away: Why the YF-23 Black Widow II lost to the F-22 Raptor

Lockheed’s YF-22 wasn’t the inevitable winner of the Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter contest. -Northrop’s YF-23 “Black ...

India’s bid to rival the Chinese navy

New Delhi is building up its maritime capability as a counter to Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the Indian Ocean ...
Air Force Times

Air Force drops quarterly standards reviews, moves to annual checks

We’ve heard your feedback from the field, and we listened,” CMSAF David Wolfe said about dropping quarterly standards and ...
Stars and Stripes

Air Force’s new deployable task force wraps up its first Indo-Pacific mission

A new type of Air Force expeditionary unit designed to deploy in a crisis recently tested how to fight and survive across ...
The Aviationist on MSN

U.S. Marines Practice Large Scale Distributed Aviation Operations During Steel Knight 25

Steel Knight focused on contested maritime operations, with assets operating from far-off Forward Arming and Refueling Points and Air-Delivered Ground ...
The White House

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

Today, I have signed into law S. 1071, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026" (the "Act"). The Act authorizes fiscal year ...

NASCAR’s Greg Biffle said to be on downed plane. Here are some other athletes who died in the air

Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle was believed to be on the plane that crashed outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, on ...