US Air Force is soliciting a reusable, hypersonic VTOL strike aircraft that needs no runway and designed for operations ...

A separate competition to replace the MQ-9A Reaper is expected to kick off a concept refinement stage early in the next ...

A mammoth military plane on a routine test mission crashed shortly after takeoff Monday in Southern California, killing all eight crew members on board and leaving charred wreckage so mangled it was ...

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President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the ...

The Air Force may cancel the development of hundreds of Space Development Agency satellites and give the work to SpaceX, one senator said Thursday—a move that would shut out other companies hoping to ...

President Trump nominated former Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, center, to be the Air Force's next undersecretary and root out policies Trump referred to as damaging and "woke." (U.S. Air ...

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