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The Crash Of B-52H ‘Czar 52’: The Fairchild Air Force Base Tragedy, 30 Years Ago Today

The 1994 B-52 crash serves as a stark reminder of the importance of strict adherence to safety protocols and vigilant leadership in aviation. On June...

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Artillery goes trucking to survive drones swarming the battlefield

PARIS — French artillery engineers had a simple idea: Take a big gun, mount it on a truck, and you’ve got self-propelled artillery at...

Air Force Museum Undertakes Another Monumental Move of Mighty XB-70 Mach 3 Super Bomber

The XB-70 Valkyrie on display at the Air Force Museum was once again towed out of its display hangar temporarily for museum maintenance recently. The...

Powerful GOP senator eyes ships, jets, nukes in defense spending surge

The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee has released a detailed plan calling for an additional $55 billion above the fiscal 2025...

Watch a B-52 Bomber Go Around at RAF Fairford Because of a U-2 on the Runway

This is something you don’t see too often: a B-52 on final performs a go-around because a U-2 hasn’t vacated the runway yet. On Monday...

Back Into The Cockpit: 70-Year Old Instructor Pilot Flies Again In The B-52 After 28 Years

The last time William “Bill” Pedeaux had flown in the B-52 was when he was on active-duty at now defunct Castle Air Force Base,...

Flight Testing Of The B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Is On Track

The secretive test campaign is proceeding well, according to the Air Force acquisition chief, and working its way through test objectives. As we often reported,...

Now is not the time to scale back on the B-21 bomber program

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin made headlines when he hedged about the ultimate...

B-52s Land At Civilian Airport To Test Their Ability To Operate From Unfamiliar Airfields

During exercise Bayou Vigilance, two B-52 Stratofortress bombers tested their capabilities by landing at Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles, Louisiana. During the Bayou Vigilance...

U.S. Air Force Deploys B-52H And B-1B Bomber Task Forces

Few days apart, B-52s landed at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and B-1s landed at Moron in Spain. The U.S. Air Force started two...

Guam Hosts Hypersonic Weapon Training With Live ARRW Missile

A live AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon was photographed on a B-52H currently stationed at Andersen AFB for a Bomber Task Force deployment. The U.S....

Department of the Air Force needs more resources for successful reorg

The Department of the Air Force’s top leaders are on target with their newly announced reorganization. “We are out of time, Secretary of the...

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