At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a test bed for a new kind of air force, Major Trent McMullen is a fighter pilot learning to fly alongside the XQ-58, a drone piloted by artificial intelligence.

A top Air Force commander, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, announced his retirement Tuesday for “personal and family reasons.” “After much reflection and with a full heart, Barb and I have made a difficult ...

WASHINGTON — L3Harris Technologies said it has successfully demonstrated a satellite-based radio system that allows military aircraft to tap commercial space broadband services such as SpaceX’s ...

The U.S. Air Force launched a new “Culture of Fitness” initiative, altering the current physical fitness assessments by adding a 2-mile run and making the test biannual for all service members. At the ...

Multiple government-directed tests evaluated how Ultra-STOL and hybrid-electric technologies can support America’s warfighters Electra today announced it has completed its participation in the Air ...

The United States Air Force is unveiling changes to its Physical Fitness Assessment and a new fitness program for its Total Force Airmen. The program includes scored assessments in cardiovascular, ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has taken delivery of a Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter that will be employed for testing software updates and new weapons. The “new specially instrumented F-35A” will join the ...

The U.S. Air Force is hoping to use two Tesla Cybertrucks as target practice for precision-guided military weapons. According to the daily military newspaper, Stars and Stripes, the Air Force wants to ...

Airports are military targets of immense strategic importance. We only need to cast our eyes back a few years to see a prime example of this. At the start of the Ukraine war, the original Russian ...

The pool of companies will compete for task orders to provide computer-controlled diagnostic equipment to test military aircraft and weapons systems. Thirty-three companies won spots on a $980 million ...

The Air Force PAST test is designed to weed out all but the strongest and most disciplined. I went in without practice, expecting it to be hard. I didn’t expect it to feel impossible by the halfway ...