Aircraft Competing to Be the New SpecOps 'Armed Overwatch' Plane Now Face a Tough Series of Tests SOCOM announced it had awarded $19.2 million in contracts to five vendors producing prototype aircraft for Armed Overwatch.
F-22 Has In-Flight Emergency, Ends Up Nose Down at Florida Base A photo posted on the popular but unofficial Air Force page Amn/NCO/SNCO showed the F-22 nose down on its belly.
Air Force Blames F-35 Crash at Eglin on Excessive Landing Speed The aircraft bounced, rolled, "caught fire and was completely destroyed," the report states.
Air Force's New Search-and Rescue Helicopter Gets 1st Aerial Refueling The Air Force's newest combat search-and-rescue helicopter, the HH-60W Jolly Green II, hit another milestone.
Eglin Orders Brief Suspension of Flight Ops Following F-35, F-22 Crashes The "safety pause" follows two back-to-back crashes of stealth fighters less than a week apart.
Air Force F-35 Crashes at Eglin; Pilot Ejects Safely The F-35 mishap marks the second accident at Eglin in a week's time.
Eglin Curtails Run Portion of PT Test After Captain's Death Capt. Tranay Lashawn Tanner, 29, was transported to the Eglin Hospital last week with health complications.
Airman Takes First Flight on HH-60W Combat Search-and-Rescue Helicopter A pilot from the 413th Flight Test Squadron at Duke Field at Eglin Air Force Base flew with Sikorsky contractors.
Navy Deactivates F-35 Training Squadron as it Concentrates Stealth Fighter Ops The U.S. Navy has deactivated its stealth fighter squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
Our Nation's Veterans Are a Perfect Match for STEM Jobs "Despite increasing opportunities in STEM fields, our vets continue to face challenges to entering this critical workforce."
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
