Experienced Ukrainian pilotscould learn to fly the multirole missions of the Lockheed MartinF-16—including using heat-seeking and radar-guided air-to-airmissiles—in as little as three months, U.S. Air Force leaders sayas the training pipeline is preparing to begin.BRIAN EVERSTINE...
“These future mobility concepts may be very different than our traditional ones,” Kendall says. “We need capabilities that can survive the threat of long-range air-to-air missiles. You must be able to bring mobility assets into a contested environment.” Gen. Mike Minihan, commande...
But even though the United States spends more money on its air force than Russia there are a lot of things to contrast between the two. For instance, the fact that Russia has more bombers than the US is rather interesting. One of the main reasons for this is that Russia has many old ...
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The Air Force has conducted the first flight test of the MQ-9A Reaper carrying eight live AGM-114 Hellfire missiles -- twice the number it can currently hold -- to show the remotely piloted aircraft's ability to perform "persistent attack" operations in future conflicts. The 556th Tes...
Do you love airplanes, jets and learning about the history of the Air Force? A visit to the FREE National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio is a perfect place for a few hours or an entire day. Make sure you wear your walking shoes, be
The Air Force's 'Nuclear SWAT Teams' who guard missiles, bombers and warheads. more info :TRF SOSFS Special Operations Security Forces Squadrons (SOSFS) proovide force protection for AFSOC at home and abroad. more info :SOSFS Special Operations Aircraft ...
Eventually it was decided that the Air Force should return back to more spherical shaped balloons. Balloons that would cause less of a panic than the saucer shaped 17. After the program was finished, all Type 17s and many of the documents relating to the program were destroyed by the USAF,...
All U.S. Air Force units must be readily identifiable. To accomplish this, each organizations has a unique designation. The designation includes a number or name; a functional term describing its primary mission and an organizational type denoting its position in the Air Force organizational hierarc...
(HCV), and to create a Small Launch Vehicle (SLV) capable of sending small satellites into earth orbit. The HCV is a technological marvel designed for high-speed tactical deployment, enabling swift penetration of air defenses from a safe distance, while carrying a hypersonic weapons platform ...