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

The base is the headquarters of the Twentieth Air Force (20 AF), which is in command of all Air Force intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). 20 AF is designated as Task Force 214 for US ...

The United States Air Force ranks number three in the US Armed Forces for the largest troop count. With just over 300,000 ...

An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the North American X-15 had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of ...

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest ...

For now, the F-22 Raptor remains the greatest air superiority fighter ever built. But China is catching up. The Chengdu J-20 and the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor represent the respective apexes of ...

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has debuted a new exhibit, and a second one is on the way for the week of Dec. 20.

The Douglas C-54 Skymaster departed Anchorage on January 26, 1950, carrying 42 service members and Joyce Espe—a pregnant ...

A fighter jet with the Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert ...

After four years of repair efforts, the "Spirit of Georgia" overcame obstacles to return to flight following a landing ...

With top brass at the controls, the Air Force this week marked delivery of the 100th new KC-46A Pegasus aerial tanker built by Boeing. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Healy, chief of the Air Force Reserve, ...

The ancient Abu Dhabi Pearl is among the pieces on display at the Zayed National Museum, which opened this week. By David Belcher Jewelry is one of many ways that history is told at the Zayed National ...