As the Air Force prepares for possible war with China, it may not have enough rescue aircraft to pick up downed aviators.
At Nellis Air Force Base, the top Air Force generals demonstrated the leaders’ ability to fly the aircraft they command.
In military aviation, raw speed is no longer a benchmark for domination over the ...
Today’s air forces are designed around highly sophisticated, technically impressive combat aircraft and this is their Achillies heel. Such aircraft take years to build and if lost cannot quickly be ...
The software and hardware that will control tomorrow's combat drones got a workout on January 18, as a General Atomics MQ-20 ...
A YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft test aircraft is staged in Poway, Calif., May 19, 2025. The Department of the Air Force has begun ground testing for the CCA program to validate performance and ...
The YFQ-42 becomes the first of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft to enter flight testing. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced on Aug. 27, 2025, that its YFQ-42A ...
The U.S. Air Force is looking for contractors who can train foreign pilots receiving American military aid, according to an ...
In these, aircraft losses in combat are more likely than not. Modern air forces fighting in such wars might have short lives. In the last major air war of 1939-1945, many tens of thousands of aircraft ...