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

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 ...

The United States Air Force enters FY26 with 42 combat-coded F-15C/Ds, 133 F-15Es, and 27 F-15EXs, although the portion ...

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

The next generation of Air Force One, already years behind schedule, is now not expected to carry a president until the middle of 2028, extending a saga of delays for one of the United States’ most ...

U.S. Air Force Col. Nathan Malafa, left, outgoing U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron commander, and Lt. Col. Alexander ...

A New York-bound JetBlue flight had to halt its ascent Friday to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker ...

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

Military wargames date back thousands of years, but their modern versions have many of the same challenges that civilian ...

Deterrence is emerging as a theme for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, but questions remain about the administration’s ability to deliver and maintain the nation’s nuclear deterrent. At the Air ...

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 ...

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 ...