Air Force

The Air Force on Monday said a weather satellite that stopped responding to commands in February is not repairable and that it wouldn’t take further action toward recovery. The Air […]

NanoRacks, a company doing business on the International Space Station (ISS), has launched roughly six Defense Department payloads into space via ISS, a company official told Defense Daily. Kirk Woellert, […]

Funding will not be a problem in President Barack Obama administration’s plan to field a new Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) nuclear cruise missile, Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein, Air Force deputy chief […]

Boeing [BA] said Thursday it will take another after-tax charge on the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker program, this one costing $393 million. The company said the charge, its fourth, reflects […]

The Air Force said Wednesday it signed a first-of-its-kind cooperative research and development  agreement (CRADA) with Textron [TXT] to provide an airworthiness assessment of the company’s Model 530 Scorpion. Air […]

Ten Democratic senators urged President Barack Obama to cancel the Air Force’s Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon before he leaves office in January, according to a letter obtained by Defense […]

The KC-46 program completed all flight tests required for the Milestone C decision by offloading 1,500 pounds of fuel to an A-10 on July 15, according to an Air Force […]

Draken International said Tuesday it successfully deployed aircraft in support of the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command (AETC). Between June 25 and July 1, Draken deployed six A-4 […]

Building on an acquisition it made in late winter, Textron [TXT] earlier this month launched a new operating business focused on providing tactical airborne training services to the Navy and […]

Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, from which a portion of U.S. air strikes against Islamic State militants (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria are launched, is without power following the coup […]