America’s MiG - Sukhoi Air Force

America’s MiG Air Force -- David Axe, Offiziere.ch For at least 35 years the U.S. military has operated Soviet- and Russian-made MiG and Suk...

Russian And U.S. Air Force

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Top 10 Most Expensive U.S. Military Planes (Photo Gallery)

B-2 Spirit: $2.4 billion The B-2 bomber was so costly that Congress cut its initial 1987 purchase order from 132 to 21. (A 2008 crash leaves...

The Case For Maintaining America's Air Force

U.S. Must Keep Nuke Triad, F-35, Satellites, Tanker: Air Force Secretary -- Aol Defense National Harbor: Air Force Secretary Mike Donley ple...

A New Flight Suit For The Air Force (Maybe)

Pilots walk the flight line at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, wearing the iconic green flight suits, which are slated to be replaced unless a co...

What Does U.S. Air Power Actually Do?

[Photo: USAF ] What U.S. Air Power Actually Does -- CBS Why we need a new lexicon to describe air power in the age of the war on terror When...

F-35 Delays Means Other Fighter Jets Are Purchased

PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 5, 2007) - An F/A-18C Hornet, attached to the "Vigilantes" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151, launches off ...

The U.S. Air force Looks To The Future And The Impending Budget Cuts

Air Force Speeds Up Fleet Upgrades as Big-Ticket Acquisitions Slow to a Crawl -- National Defense In a time of tight budgets, the Air Force ...

Air Force's Space-Based Surveillance Satellite Launches Tomorrow, To Scan For Space Junk

Space Debris NASA From Popular Science: A massive collection of spacecraft parts, dead satellites, and spent rocket stages circle high abov...

How New Tech Is Making Old Fighter Jets More Lethal

Giving Sight Back To An F-15C Golden Eagle -- Popular Mechanics Precision is something that 30-year-old warplanes lack. But they can be retr...

Projecting Air Power On The Cheap

AC-208B "Combat Caravan" aircraft. Photo from C208B.com Air Power On The Cheap -- The Economist Small, slow and inexpensive prope...

‘Batman’ Prepares To Join The Air Force

From the Danger Room: Grappling hooks attached to siphon electricity from low-hanging power lines. Computers mounted onto a commando’s chest...

U.S. Air Force Prepares For Homeland Defense

Units Make History With Air Force's First Homeland Defense ORI -- U.S. Air Force 6/1/2010 - GULFPORT, MISS. (AFNS) -- Three units repres...

Top 10 Low Pass Flyby's Of All Time (Video)

WNU Editor: Number #1, #3 and #4 are awesome. #2 is insane.

Northrop Pulls Out Of Race For US Air Force Tankers

An artist's depiction of the Northrop Grumman aerial tanker refueling an Air Force stealth bomber. The tanker would have been based on t...

Where Planes Go To Die: Massive £22bn Air Force 'Boneyard' Revealed In High Resolution By Google Earth

(Click Image To Enlarge) Four of the numerous types of military aircraft kept at the site in Arizona From The Daily Mail: It's where old...

Why Does The Air Force Want Thousands Of PlayStations?

PlayStation 3 (PS3) From ABC News: Clusters of High-Performance Gaming Consoles Can Serve as Supercomputers. Guess what's on the U.S. Ai...

Why An F-15E Strike Eagle Crashed In Afghanistan This Year

A U.S. Air Force ground crew inspects an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet at Bagram air base, some 31 miles north of Kabul, on Aug. 10, 2009. ...

Another Air Force Wing Commander Has Been Fired

From In From The Cold: For the second time in less than a month, an Air Force wing commander has been fired at Minot AFB, North Dakota. Air ...

Classified Mission Reveals How The US Almost Went To War Against The Sudan In 2006

11 Airmen Survived 2006 Confrontation In Sudan -- Air Force Times Trapped in Sudan: 11 airmen in an HC-130 ‘taxi’ run. 150 Sudanese soldiers...