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The U.S. Air Force’s B-52J Bomber Crisis

The U.S. Air Force’s ambitious B-52J modernization program, intended to keep the bomber flying until the 2050s, is in serious ...
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The Air Force’s B-52J Bomber Is Starting to Become A Nightmare

The Air Force plans to keep 76 B-52s flying into the 2050s and buy 100 B-21 Raiders, but the B-52J upgrade path—new F130 engines, AESA radar, and LRSO integration—has slipped and breached Nunn-McCurdy ...
Before the gleaming 747s that now ferry U.S. presidents across oceans, there was a smaller, sleeker jet that carried the ...
After the incident, video footage of the Skywest pilot explaining the reason for his "aggressive maneuver" to passengers went viral North Dakota Governor's Office via AP The crew operating a B-52 ...
A second B-21 Raider bomber has flown for the first time in California, the Air Force announced Thursday, a milestone officials say will accelerate testing of America’s first new long-range bomber in ...
A second B-21 Raider bomber has flown for the first time in California, the Air Force announced Thursday, a milestone officials say will accelerate testing of America’s first new long-range bomber in ...
The flight was intended to demonstrate “U.S. commitment to proactively deter adversary threats to the U.S. homeland," ...
With the YFQ-44 now flying, both of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft are in flight testing. The YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat ...
The OA-1K Skyraider II is a light attack plane, a militarized variant of the Air Tractor AT-802, an aircraft long used for ...
A mysterious aircraft crash near Nevada’s secretive Area 51 has triggered weeks of speculation, a military probe — and ...
An ambitious Air Force plan to acquire hundreds more advanced fighter jets for homeland defense over the next decade would ...
Not even a government shutdown can ground the Army Air Corps ahead of the Air Force versus Army football game on Saturday. No, that’s not a typo. Even though the planned flyover by the Air Force and ...