Air Force

LISBON, Portugal–While the Portuguese defense minister recently downplayed the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter as a candidate to replace the country’s 28 F-16s, the F-35 may still be in the […]

BEJA AIR BASE (AIR BASE 11), Portugal–The Portuguese Air Force (PRTAF) received its first Embraer KC-390 transport in October 2023 and its second in June of last year, as the […]

In announcing Boeing [BA] as the winner of the Air Force’s F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) manned fighter, President Trump said U.S. allies are interested in the sixth-generation aircraft […]

The Air Force last Friday awarded Boeing [BA] the contract to build the first sixth-generation manned fighter aircraft that it said will have more stealth, range, maneuverability, sustainability, readiness, and […]

As the defense community awaits the release of the Pentagon’s fiscal 2026 budget in the next month or so, the Department of the Air Force may stand to gain a […]

Adak Island, the site of a former Navy base closed in 1997 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, may see military reuse to aid U.S. posture in the Indo-Pacific. […]

Canada is turning to Australia for a more than $4 billion Arctic radar for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). The Canadian Over-the-Horizon Radar would leverage Australia’s BAE Systems‘ […]

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) tactical air and land forces panel, said on Tuesday that he recently received a briefing from the […]

One top U.S. Air Force priority is bolstering sustainment and flying hours funding, as the service moves to an envisioned fleet of cheaper to maintain, unmanned Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) […]

Since the second Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the Ukrainian military has been able to stifle Russian manned aircraft strikes, but that deterrence may not hold without […]