Surveillance Aircraft

With each pass, the scientists aboard these planes take measurements that satellites can't and send them to forecasters at...

SOCOM commander Gen. Richard Clarke said each squadron would be made up of 15 aircraft, and he expects one would be deployed...

Officials said they will look to gather information from crews at Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland.

Just as mission planners thought it was out, the JSTARS was recently pulled back into the Middle East.

The fiscal 2020 NDAA contains provisions to halt the retirement of an Air National Guard's RC-26 surveillance plane.

The Air Force just flew an unmanned aircraft for two days, demonstrating the drone's ability to take off and land by itself.

The U.S. Air Force finds itself at a crossroads on what to do about its small aircraft fleets.

An E-6B Mercury, a nuclear command-and-control plane, hit the bird at Naval Air Station Patuxent River on Oct. 2.

U.S. surveillance and reconnaissance flights haven't stopped or been scaled back since Iran shot down a Navy RQ-4 last week.

Iranian leaders said they refrained from shooting down a P-8 transiting in the region, and instead shot down the Global Hawk.