US Military Aircraft Are Nowhere Near as Ready as They Should Be — Here's How Bad the Situation Is From fiscal year 2011 to 2019, 24 military aircraft types never once achieved their required mission capable rates.
Maverick's Favorite Fighter Jet Is Getting Its Own Monument The F-14 Tomcat Monument Association will debut a paneled monument at the National Naval Aviation Museum.
Blue Angels' Classic F/A-18 Hornets Take Final Flights After 34 Years The legacy F/A-18 Hornets that have wowed Blue Angels spectators for more than three decades will make their final flight...
The Air Force Updated F-16 Live-Fire Training Rules Following 2017 Strafing Death The U.S. Air Force quietly changed its F-16 Fighting Falcon nighttime live-fire training after a contractor was killed during...
Navy Reveals Basing Plans for New MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Drones The Navy is studying the effects its new unmanned refueling aircraft could have on California's Pacific coastline as it makes...
1st Air Force Pilot Reaches 1,000-Hour Milestone in F-35A Joint Strike Fighter Lt. Col. Jared "Vic" Santos reached 1,000 flight hours in the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter stealth jet.
Marines Say Military Helicopter Did Not Hover Low Over Trump Campaign Rally A video shared by President Trump prompted new questions about the use of military aircraft at political campaign rallies.
Hillary Clinton Takes Shot at F-35 Program, Urges Retirement of Old Air Force Planes Congress has been skeptical of letting the Air Force retire weapons systems early.
Marine Corps F-35 and C-130 Collide During Refueling Exercise, All Personnel Found Safe All nine personnel -- one in the F-35B and eight in the KC-130J tanker -- are accounted for.
After 2nd Day of Bad Weather, Vintage WWII Plane Flyover Scrapped for Good The warbirds flyover was intended to be a stirring tribute to the "Greatest Generation."
Why Japanese Tanks Were Doomed in the Pacific Theater Today, the Pacific remains a prominent strategic interest for the U.S. military, but the Marine Corps recently deactivated...
Hegseth Says Wounded Knee Soldiers Will Keep Their Medals of Honor Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for...
The Italian WWII Frogmen Who Inspired the U.S. Navy SEALs While uniquely American, SEAL doctrine owes a technical and conceptual debt to Italy’s WWII combat divers, who first combined...
New Mexico's Health Care Crisis Is Forcing Military Personnel to Decline Assignments At New Mexico's three Air Force bases — Kirtland in Albuquerque, Cannon near Clovis and Holloman outside of Alamogordo — the...
Democratic Candidate for Governor of New Jersey Pushes Back After GOP Questions Her Service Record Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey in this year’s high-stakes race, is defending her Navy...