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May 3, 2016

F-35 Will Not Reach Full Close-Air-Support Potential Until 2022

F-35 pilots will have to wait until 2022 to fire the U.S. military's top close-air-support bomb after the Small Diameter Bomb II enters service in 2017.

May 3, 2016

Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Promotions Announced

The Air Force has selected 1,257 of its Master Sergeants for promotion to Senior Master Sergeant.

May 3, 2016

Afghan Military to Receive Its First A-29s in December

The first of the A-29 Super Tucanos will begin arriving in December to begin their close-air-support missions after years of delays and court fights.

May 3, 2016

Air Force Mixes Up Constitutional Amendments in Test Given to Airmen

An Air Force training test jumbled the 1st and 5th amendments, incorrectly claiming that religious freedom is "commonly violated.",The Air Force mixed up the 1st and 5th amendments to the U.S. Constitution in a widely distributed test to airmen, according to Mikey Weinstein, president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

May 3, 2016

Move of Air Guard to Hill Air Force Base Supported

A House committee approved a resolution Monday that urges support for moving Utah Air National Guard operations to Hill Air Force Base.

May 3, 2016

New Small Diameter Bomb Doesn’t Fit Inside Marine’s F-35B

Joint Strike Fighter engineers will have to make adjustments to the weapons bay of the Marine Corps variant of the F-35 so the aircraft can carry a pin point glide bomb by 2022, JSF program officials said. The Small Diameter Bomb II, or SDB II, can acquire and track moving targets from distances up to […]

May 3, 2016

Air Force Officials Review Article Lauding NCO’s Missionary Work

An Air Force commander must decide whether to spike an AF article about an airman who does Christian charity work in Mexico. ,The Air Force Reserve Command is expected to decide Friday whether a Reserve feature story about a senior master sergeant who proselytizes in Guatemala with his family should have been posted on the command's official webpage. And now whether the story should be pulled.

May 3, 2016

F-35 Tested in Extreme Weather Conditions

The Pentagon’s F-35 Lightning II has been test-flying in extreme heat, artic cold, rain, humidity, ice and desert winds in a specially engineered climactic laboratory hangar at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida — as a way to prepare and certify the new aircraft to fly into any corner of the world. “They have been testing […]

May 3, 2016

Pentagon Unveils Program to Help Build 6th Generation Fighter

The Pentagon is poised to unveil a new collaborative research program in the upcoming 2016 defense budget submission.

May 3, 2016

SpaceX Drops Suit as AF Opens More Competitive Launches

Start-up rocket-maker Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX and headed by billionaire Elon Musk, has agreed to drop its lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force after the service pledged to open more satellite launches to competition. The company based near Los Angeles sued the service last year for the chance to compete in the […]