March Air Force Base in California was founded in 1918 as Alessandro Flying Training Field to prepare pilots for World War I. During the Cold War, it became a significant Strategic Air Command base, ...

The next generation of presidential aircraft has slipped further into the future, with the Air Force now targeting the middle ...

Key Points and Summary – China’s stealth revolution is no longer hypothetical. With the J-20 in growing numbers, ...

The US Air Force announced plans Tuesday to purchase two Boeing 747-8 aircraft to support its future presidential airlift program, with an Air Force official confirming it would acquire the planes ...

U.S. Air Force Col. Nathan Malafa, left, outgoing U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron commander, and Lt. Col. Alexander Prevendar, incoming USAFADS “Thunderbirds” commander, smile during a ...

Pilots of a private jet flying near the coast of Venezuela reported a near-miss collision with a U.S. Air Force refueling ...

Over the last 15 years, China has elevated and transformed its military into a true peer rival of the United States. Its ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The origins of the USAF lie in a decision made just four years after the Wright ...

They were really close,” one of the pilots told controllers of the encounter at approximately 26,000 feet. “We were climbing right into him.” ...

JetBlue flight from Curaçao to New York narrowly avoided mid-air collision with U.S. Air Force tanker near Venezuela, forcing ...

A JetBlue pilot described the near-collision between his plane and a military aircraft with its transponder turned off near Curaçao “outrageous.” ...

It has been nearly six years since the United States Space Force was established, when President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020 into law. The sixth and ...