First Lt. Maurielle Pankau, a 183rd Air Component Operations Squadron intelligence analyst planner, participates in the Shadow Operations Center — Nellis "Experiment 3" on June 13, 2025. (Airman 1st ...

Air Force officials and international observers have flocked to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for the service's Light Attack Experiment, going on throughout August. The exercise has been ...

While the U.S. Air Force hasn't closed the door to a possible light attack program, efforts to procure a new turboprop aircraft for training with allies appear to have lost steam as other priorities ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein and Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson chat in front of the Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine produced by Textron. Goldfein and Wilson visited Holloman Air Force ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein, left, chats with Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson after flying Textron's AT-6 as part of the service's light-attack experiment, held August 2017 at ...

The mission was launched aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) 551 configuration vehicle, which includes a 5-meter large Payload Fairing (PLF). The Atlas booster was powered by ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – The U.S. Air Force is using a little-discussed satellite that launched in 2014 as part of ongoing experiments that look at how the Defense Department and intelligence ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Eglin Air Force Base is home to some air defense experiments this month, causing the waters off of Santa Rosa Island to be closed at times. According to an Eglin AFB ...

Col. Eric Felt, head of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, speaks June 4, 2020, during a SpaceNews virtual event. WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory announced ...

On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship just off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray a cloud of microbes into the air and into the city's famous fog. The military was testing how a ...