Air Force

Textron Inc. [TXT] on Wednesday posted a drop in net income and sales in the first quarter driven by declines in most of its operating segments and charges related to […]

The first Europe-bound training deployment of the conventional takeoff and landing F-35A Joint Strike Fighter was made official Saturday when several of the jets touched down at Royal Air Force […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Thursday it joined with the U.S. Air Force to conduct a non-nuclear flight test of the B61-12 gravity bomb in March. The test, […]

Investigators concluded that pilot error caused an Air Force MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aircraft to crash at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan last year, the service announced April 13. According to Air […]

The Air Force on Wednesday night dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever developed on an Islamic State tunnel complex in Afghanistan. Designated the GBU-43, the 30-foot, 22,000-pound guided munition is […]

The next-generation rocket wars continued Monday on Capitol Hill as 20 bipartisan members of the House of Representatives wrote Defense Secretary James Mattis advocating for total launch system funding as […]

The U.S. Air Force is studying how to tap into the agility, speed and other advanced capabilities of small unmanned aerial vehicles that have proliferated in the private sector in […]

The Air Force’s chief of staff isn’t considering using stop loss, an order preventing airmen from moving to inactive status, to help stem the tide of pilots leaving the service. […]

The U.S. Air Force authorized extending the service life of the F-16 to from 8,000 to 12,000 Equivalent Flight Hours, producer Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Wednesday. This authorization came after […]

In his first turn briefing the press at the Pentagon as Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis said the recent retaliatory strike against Syria for its use of chemical weapons on civilians […]