The US Air Force is upgrading its aircraft to stay relevant in a fast-changing threat environment, but those upgrades are ...

Over the last 15 years, China has elevated and transformed its military into a true peer rival of the United States. Its ...

The United States enjoys hemispheric supremacy, in large part because no other nation can match US air power. The US has long enjoyed global hegemony owing to a combination of factors. These include ...

The United States Air Force is quietly transforming its F-35A fleet from a stealthy scout into a far more lethal strike platform, committing hundreds of millions of dollars to new long-range weapons.

Air Force Sec. Troy Meink, right, shown during a June budget hearing. (Eric Dietrich/Air Force) The Air Force has scrapped its outgoing chief of staff’s plan to create an independent command focused ...

The United States is enhancing its air power in South Korea by retiring aging aircraft and modernizing fighter jets amid North Korea's threat, newly released photos show. Newsweek has contacted North ...

The US Air Force will install Raytheon's PhantomStrike active electronically scanned array radar on its X-62 VISTA test ...

The United States Air Force maintains a complex network of installations designed to project air power and support global ...

US Air Force and Energy Department personnel load a pair of unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs onto an F-35 at Hill Air Force Base on Aug. 19 for testing. The Energy Department and Air Force in ...

The Air Force said it successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base early Wednesday, part of regular testing of the land-based ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The origins of the USAF lie in a decision made just four years after the Wright ...