Category: Air Force

This year, the USAF’s Air Combat Command plans to only send its jets to 61 airshows and the F-22 will appear in 20 of those shows.

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Ugandan Su-30 pilots are unhappy over their low wages and two of the eight pilots have left the squadron for greener pastures.

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The 17th Air Force was inactivated on Friday as part of a larger reorganization across the service to cut costs.

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Boeing is trying to entice Israel with a version of its CH-47 to replace the IAF’s CH-53s.

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Female paratroopers dropped into Hsinchu air force base in northern Taiwan on Thursday in a drill to test the military’s response to an airborne invasion.

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