After decades of nonstop wars and aging planes, the Air Force now fields a force far smaller and more strained than its Cold ...

In January 1944, over the skies of Germany, U.S. Army Air Forces pilot James Howard made history. Flying a P-51 Mustang, he ...

In 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order restoring the use of Department of War as a "secondary title" for ...

The mission quickly went sideways, however, demonstrating the challenges facing the Air Force. The auxiliary power unit in the tanker with Tail No. 59-1459 started to smoke, forcing the Eisenhower-era ...

The first Air Force jet designed specifically for US presidents, SAM 26000 carried every president from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton.

In August 1945, North Field launched the two bombers that carried out the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in ...

U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons taxi at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, December 2023. (Tech. Sgt. Emili Koonce/Air Force) The U.S. Air Force has begun transferring F-16 Fighting Falcon warplanes ...