Air Force

The Air Force Tuesday successfully test launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM at 10:45 a.m. EDT, according to the service. The last time the Air Force test launched a Minuteman […]

With an industry day scheduled to take place Thursday and Friday at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., the field of companies vying for the Air Force’s multi-billion dollar next generation rocket […]

The Air Force’s F-22 fighter jet this week saw its first combat action nearly nine years after initial operational capability was declared. The Defense Department said Tuesday the F-22 deployed […]

The House Appropriations defense subcommittee (HAC-D) approved the Defense Department’s July 10 reprogramming request to add $100 million and an additional fiscal year 2015 launch to the Air Force’s Evolved […]

The Air Force is scheduled to perform an operational test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM Tuesday morning between 6:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. EDT, according to a service […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The ease of acquiring, supporting and operating the liquefied natural gas that will power Blue Origin‘s BE-4 rocket engine is exciting to the head of Air […]

The Air Force said Tuesday it awarded United Launch Alliance (ULA) a $938 million contract modification for fiscal year 2015 launch capability. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract provides for mission assurance, program […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Wiring problems on the first test aircraft of the Air Force’s KC-46A aerial refueling tanker program has forced the service to delay the initial flight by months, the […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.-–Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) could be certified by Dec. 1 to perform national security space launches, according to the head of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). Though […]

For more than a decade the United States and its allies have held air superiority without a peer competitor wherever they flew, but NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe (SACEUR) and […]