Known as Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, the manned jet will serve as quarterback to a fleet of future drone aircraft ...

Boeing has been awarded a $20B contract to develop the USAF’s next-gen NGAD fighter, beating Lockheed Martin and marking a ...

The A-10 still serves the Air Force today after more than five decades in service. T he A-10 Thunderbolt II may be well into ...

A French Army general named Ecaterina Teodoroiu the “Joan of Arc of Romania.” In honor of Women’s History Month, The National Interest now concludes our five-part series hon ...

Michael Conley, head of the Air Force Special Operations Command, announced in March 2025 that the newly developed OA-1K ...

And yet, it turns out that the Air Force's newest fighter plane is built by -- you guessed it -- L3Harris.

The Air Force’s decision to award the contract to Fairchild Republic—which went on to build the A-10 Warthog—proved to be one of the greatest decisions Pentagon acquisitions experts have ever made.

Given the Pentagon’s antipathy toward the A-10, its proponents should offer meaningful ways to keep it relevant in the modern ...

Languages: English. Email: [email protected]. The U.S. Air Force is facing a readiness crisis, with only around six out of 10 of its fleet mission-capable on an average day in fiscal year 2024 ...

The Air Force provided statistics on how many of each kind of aircraft it had in 2024, as well as the percentage of time each aircraft was ready to carry out its mission. Those st ...

A month before President Donald Trump returned to the White House, Elon Musk flew to Kelly Field to meet with Boeing’s CEO about his company’s troubled Air Force One project at Port San Antonio.

The United States Air Force first introduced its 'doomsday' E-4A planes in 1974, based on the Boeing 747-200B jumbo jet. These were then developed into the E-4B. The first E-4B was delivered in 1980, ...