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."
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...