Air Force

The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command (AMC) has flight tested a Boeing [BA] KC-46A Pegasus tanker without a co-pilot to verify the aircraft is able to fly with a […]

On May 5-6, a KC-46A Pegasus tanker assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell AFB, Kan., flew more than 24 hours straight–the longest mission in the history of […]

The U.S. Air Force is replacing tail pipes on the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-2 Spirit stealth bomber as a follow-on effort to stopgap work begun a decade ago. Each of […]

A top U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) official on Oct. 26 highlighted the command’s need for High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HSVTOL) systems and SOCOM’s planned shift to a 60 […]

Cost overruns on the U.S. Air Force’s KC-46A Pegasus tanker have climbed to $6.9 billion from more than $5 billion last December. Under the terms of Air Force’s February 2011 […]

A new report from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies recommends that the Pentagon require the hardening of the Space Development Agency’s envisioned Transport Layer satellites, which are to be […]

Collins Aerospace [RTX] said on Oct. 24 that it has upgraded the first Chilean Air Force C-130 transport to the company eight-bladed NP2000 propelle. “The completion of this install marks […]

The U.S. Army has been trying out Booz Allen Hamilton‘s [BAH] Modular Detachment Kit (MDK) in the Project Convergence 2022 (PC 22) experiment in the western United States and the […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the U.S. Air Force plan to unveil the company’s B-21 Raider stealth bomber in Palmdale, Calif., on Dec. 2 at an invitation-only event, the company said […]

The U.S. Air Force plans to issue a solicitation for support equipment (SE) for the Boeing [BA] KC-46A Pegasus tanker next month. The future SE contract is to last five […]