The iconic 70-year-old spy plane is receiving updates to its AN/ALQ-221 Advanced Defensive System. Despite ever changing plans to retire the type in the next few years, the U.S. Air Force’s U-2 Dragon ...

One person was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a US Air Force base in New Mexico on Tuesday evening, according to reports. Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo was placed on lockdown ...

The U.S. Air Force is on the hunt for small one-way attack drones for its special operations forces. (Anna Berrettini/U.S. Air Force) The U.S. Air Force wants small one-way attack drones for its ...

The concentration of U.S. military assets in the Middle East is forcing allies like Japan and South Korea to ask themselves hard questions about U.S. reliability. Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile ...

Six crew members were killed when a US Air Force refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, US Central Command announced Friday morning. The Tampa, Fla.-based command said the crash of ...

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A U.S. KC-135 fuel tanker crashed in western Iraq on Thursday. Rescue operations are under way and the U.S. military didn’t say whether airmen were killed or wounded. Any casualties would be the first ...

Six US service members are dead after a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker, a refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, the US military said, adding that the incident was “not due to ...

A U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq on Thursday after an apparent accident involving two KC-135 tankers supporting operations in Iran, military officials said. U.S. officials have not ...

A U.S. refueling plane crashed in western Iraq Thursday, as the American military pressed its punishing air campaign against Iran. Rescue operations were under way, and the U.S. military didn’t say ...

William "Neil" McCasland, a 68-year-old retired U.S. Air Force general, has been missing for almost two weeks. "There has been no indication whatsoever of where he might be," his wife, Susan McCasland ...

For close to three decades, the Northrop Grumman B-2 "Spirit" carried the mantle of being the only stealth bomber in the U.S. Air Force arsenal. Alongside the Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk stealth ...