The Air Force said Friday that it is grounding its fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets over a faulty component. The stand-down, which was first reported by Breaking Defense, was due to an issue ...
WASHINGTON – While the U.S Air Force is taking more steps to oversee nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3), the service must focus more on short-term problems than long-term issues, the ...
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The Air Force Has a Secret Weapon

The U.S. Air Force prefers upgrades over clean-sheet designs because they’re faster, cheaper, and preserve fleet size—think B ...
An unknown number of airmen will face delays in their moving day because of problems with the service's Permanent Change of Station budget. (Air Force illustration) The U.S. Air Force delayed the ...
Today’s Air Force is relatively paltry compared to its heyday, with just 142 bombers and just over 2,000 fighter aircraft. And the average USAF bomber is around fifty years old, while the average ...