stated at a press conference on "Life Cycle Industry Day" that the US Air Force will upgrade the F-16 fighter jet to continue service beyond 2040. United States Air ForcefighterAccording to Brigadier General Dale White, the executive officer of the Advanced Aircraft...
In the war game, four types of aircraft made up the Air Force’s future fighter inventory. Three of those are ongoing programs of record for the service: The highly advanced Next Generation Air Dominance aircraft, or NGAD, and its associated systems, which were capable of penetrating highly ...
US Fighter Jets, Warships for Humanitarian Mission
18081 Tags News and updates about US Air Force One year later: US airmen look back on defending Israel from Iranian attack A year after Iran launched hundreds of missiles and attack drones at Israel, the US airmen who helped intercept them look back on that historic night. ...
Other categories represented among the oldest aircraft in the Air Force inventory are transport planes and fighter/attack jets. The latter category includes the A-10C Thunderbolt II, with 141 planes in active service, the most on the list. Second-most on the list is the KC-135R Stratotanker...
Will Roper, the head of Air Force acquisition, revealed the existence of the new jet, which he said was part of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, project. “NGAD right now is designing, assembling, testing in the digital world, exploring things that would have cost ti...
Air Force said the service might be open to sending ground-attack planes, like the A-10, to Ukraine. After transferring the planes to the Ukrainian Air Force, Ukrainian pilots would fly them. A more likely choice would be F-16 Fighting Falcons, which can take on more missions and more...
And yet, it turns out that the Air Force's newest fighter plane is built by -- you guessed it -- L3Harris. (Re)introducing the A-1 Skyraider The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) awarded L3Harris a $3 billion contract in 2022 to deliver 75 modified Air Tractor AT-802U Sky...
A contract for the prototyping effort wasfinalisedin 2024, which the air force says is valued at just over $2.5 billion. The service expects to make a production decision advancing the E-7A programme in fiscal year 2026, with the two prototype jets delivered in FY2028. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Air Force fighter jets recently squared off in a dogfight in California. One was flown by a pilot. The other wasn’t. That second jet was piloted by artificial intelligence, with the Air Force’s highest-ranking civilian riding along in the front seat. I...