U.S. Air Force News

F-35s may never need to engage in future dogfights - here's why

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall listed a 6th-generation “family of systems” as one of the service’s key “operational imperatives

Air Force Research Lab "Mayhem" Hypersonic Weapon Will Perform Surveillance/Strike Missions

AFRL’s scientists are engineering weapon technology to demonstrate what weapons can accomplish when they can autonomously connect with and share information between “themselves” while in flight to a target.

The Air Force may wind up building several manned variants of the emerging 6th-Generation Next-Generation Air Dominance stealth fighter jet.

The F-35 has a 25mm cannon, 5th-Generation stealth configuration and unmatched “sensor fusion.” Go behind the scenes with Warrior Maven's, Kris Osborn as he interviews F-35 Fighter Pilots.

Steven Stockbridge, Navigation and Data Links Team Lead at Force Research Lab

A Warrior Maven exclusive interview with US Air Force Maj. Gen. & Commander of the Air Force Research Lab, Heather Pringle

Germany has now joined the ranks of European countries acquiring and operating the F-35

Colonel Michael Stefanovic, Director of the Strategic Studies Institute for the Air Force sits down for an exclusive interview with Kris Osborn

Air Force is breaking through to yet another level by achieving in flight weapons “collaboration”

Breakthrough new stealth technology? Carefully engineered coating and radar absorbent materials? Acoustic & thermal signature management?

The Air Force’s rendering of the B-21 gives us some clues as to the configuration

B-21 First Flight Will be Next Year After Dec 22 Rollout

While some enhancements are being made to the B1, the service does plan to phase out the aircraft as B-21s arrive and the B-52 advances its ability to fire hypersonic weapons.

The Air Force S&T Strategy for 2030 focuses on areas such as hypersonics, AI, manned-unmanned teaming, composite materials, stealth technologies

At the moment, it seem unlikely that either Russia or China could truly challenge the US and NATO in the air.

The F-35 has come to be known as a “flying computer” - here's why

Air Force Research Laboratory “basic research” is beginning to shape the materials informing hypersonic weapons construction

Air Force is breaking through with in flight weapons “collaboration”

F-35 weapons and sensors will detect or destroy an ICBM launch during the initial “boost” phase

C-130 fires JASSM-ER

A Warrior Maven exclusive interview with US Air Force Maj. Gen. & Commander of the Air Force Research Lab, Heather Pringle

Warrior Talks to Congressman, Army & Air Force