When U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles headed out to blunt Iran’s attack on Israel last April, they tried an unusual tactic: Knock Iranian drones out of the sky with laser-guided bombs. www.airandspaceforces.com/how-f-15s-tr...

What does the future hold for the Space Force? Here’s my interview with Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman: www.airandspaceforces.com/cso-saltzman...

The U.S. military is deploying significant airpower in the Caribbean one week after carrying out an airstrike on what it said was a boat operated by a Venezuelan drug cartel. www.airandspaceforces.com/airpower-car... Airpower in the Caribbean: US Bulks Up Presence with MQ-9s, F-35s, and More

Russian drones were shot down by NATO fighter jets over Polish airspace Sept. 10, alliance officials told Air & Space Forces Magazine, marking the first time allied aircraft have used force to defend its airspace. www.airandspaceforces.com/nato-fighter...

“I was never going to resign. They were going to have to fire me,” former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. CQ Brown said in an appearance at Duke University, where he now works. “They did. But I was going to do my job regardless. I walk away with my head held high. I have zero regrets.”

U.S. Air Force F-16s intercepted a Russian spy plane off the coast of Alaska for the second day in a row, NORAD officials said late Thursday. www.airandspaceforces.com/norad-f-16s-...

Dispatch from Langley on the new boss of the Air Force’s Air Combat Command. www.airandspaceforces.com/spain-heart-...

At least three high-profile four-star Air Force commands—U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa, Air Mobility Command, and Air Force Materiel Command—could be downgraded to three-star roles, as the Pentagon presses to shrink the number of generals, people familiar with the matter told me.

The Space Force will begin assuming space missions currently conducted by the Air National Guard in October. The move is likely to spark criticism from some governors, lawmakers, and advocacy groups who favor creating a separate Space National Guard instead. www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

The Air Force and Space Force are both set to have new No. 2 officers. Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere has been nominated for Air Force Vice Chief of Staff and Lt. Gen. Shawn N. Bratton has been nominated to receive a fourth star as Vice Chief of Space Operations. www.airandspaceforces.com/bussiere-bra...

An Iranian ballistic missile struck Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar during Iran’s attack on the base June 23, the Pentagon told me. Officials have touted the success of U.S. and Qatari Patriot anti-missile systems. But DOD now says that one missile leaked through www.airandspaceforces.com/iranian-ball...

Here is a photo of the damaged KC-46 at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. with part of its boom missing in an image provided to Air & Space Forces Magazine by local photographer enc_spotter. www.airandspaceforces.com/kc-46-boom-d...

A US Air Force KC-46 tanker suffered damage to its boom while refueling F-22 Raptors off the coast of Va. today. The McConnell AFB, Kan. based KC-46 diverted to Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. Officials did not respond to queries about the status of the F-22s. www.airandspaceforces.com/kc-46-boom-d...

The U.S. military is maintaining a beefed-up presence in the Middle East, including fighters and air defense assets, following the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities June 22 and subsequent retaliation by the Iranians against Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. www.airandspaceforces.com/us-bolstered...

The Marine Corps needs an Italian-made violin and a century-old violin bow immediately. And it somehow must be manufactured in the USA. #forcedesign #lethality sam.gov/opp/1a25df9f...

The 36-hour operation by the U.S. military to fly deep into Iranian airspace and drop massive bunker-buster bombs on a heavily fortified nuclear complex traces its roots to the work of intelligence analysts over 15 years ago. www.airandspaceforces.com/inside-story...

Trump had been saying he would give Tehran up to two weeks to yield to U.S. demands before ordering an attack. Then Saturday, he gave the final go-ahead to strike in a few hours. From @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear sites in an operation intended to shut down Iran’s nuclear program and not harm the country’s leadership. www.airandspaceforces.com/us-strikes-i...

Story here: B-2 Bombers Launch Westward as Trump Weighs Striking Iran www.airandspaceforces.com/b-2-bombers-...

Multiple B-2 bombers have taken off from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Air & Space Forces Magazine has confirmed. The B-2s are now flying over the Pacific. The mission comes President Donald Trump weighs whether to join Israel’s air campaign against Iran.

This recent piece by @bychrisgordon.bsky.social is one of the very few to notice AFRICOM's airstrikes. www.airandspaceforces.com/us-has-doubl...

The Pentagon plans to reduce how often service members and their families are required to move in an effort to save money and reduce stress. Defense officials have not offered a blueprint, but are asking the military services to come up with their own ideas. www.airandspaceforces.com/pentagon-eye...

The Space Force is facing a 14% cut to its civilian workforce due to the Trump admin’s push to shrink the number of civilians working for the DOD. Instead of anticipated growth in its workforce, the Space Force’s personnel have now shrunk significantly. www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

Multiple U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters have deployed to the strategic outpost of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to protect the myriad of assets deployed there, including B-52 strategic bombers, a U.S. official tells me. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-f-...

"This is how you find a drone, this is how you employ against a drone, and how you verify that you’ve killed the drone." Cool rundown of the F-15E air defense missions in April 2024 by @bychrisgordon.bsky.social

Over northern Iraq, an F-15E crewed by Lt. Col. Kevin Murphy and Maj. George Welton heard “FOX 2″ on the radio: Another U.S. Strike Eagle had fired a Sidewinder at an Iranian drone—one of 80 shot down that night. The inside story of DUDE 41 on April 13, 2024 www.airandspaceforces.com/north-caroli...

The design of the launch facilities for the Air Force’s new Sentinel ICBM are likely to undergo major revision, posing yet another challenge for the much-delayed and over-budget program to modernize the land-based component of America’s nuclear triad. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-si...

The Air Force and Boeing are now projecting that they will field the Remote Vision System 2.0 on the KC-46 tanker by summer 2027. The new date is nearly two years longer than previously anticipated, and four years later than originally expected. www.airandspaceforces.com/new-kc-46-rv...

Secretary of Defense Hegseth is directing the Pentagon to slash the number of senior generals and admirals—at least 20 percent of four-star positions would be eliminated under the move. www.airandspaceforces.com/hegseth-20-p...

The Royal Air Force has unveiled a new electronic warfare drone to fly with its fighter jets, including F-35s, into contested airspace. RAF says it plans to develop more drones to work with its warplanes. Insight from @cnas.bksy.org’s @spettyjohn.bsky.social www.airandspaceforces.com/raf-new-plan...

The revival of Tinian North Field. Sentinel-2 L1C imagery from February 26, 2024, until March 27th of this year.

“A U.S. Space Force colonel was removed from her position as the commander of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Thursday after she disavowed Vice President JD Vance’s remarks about acquiring the Danish territory.”

The Air Force has conducted more than 50 surveillance missions around the U.S. southern border with crewed and uncrewed aircraft, as the Pentagon seeks to gather intelligence on foreign cartels, drug and human trafficking, and illegal migration. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-so...

The U.S. has spent $40 million to jail about 400 migrants at Guantanamo Bay Early costs of the enterprise emerged over the weekend along with a statement from five senators who toured the base Friday and urged the Trump administration to “immediately cease this misguided mission.”

The Air Force has released the official rendering of the F-47 NGAD fighter.

NEW: Trump Announces F-47, the Air Force’s New Sixth-Gen Fighter Built by Boeing www.airandspaceforces.com/trump-ngad-f...

Multiple U.S. Navy destroyers deploying to the waters off the U.S. plan to conduct operations such as assisting the Coast Guard in patrolling for drug smugglers, a U.S. official tells me.

U.S. Air Force fighters have been using laser-guided rockets to down Houthi drones that are attacking ships in the Red Sea, as the U.S. military seeks to drive down the cost of defeating cheap uncrewed systems. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-fi...

China has been using experimental satellites to practice “dogfighting” in space, the U.S. Space Force said today, the latest in series of revelations that America’s adversaries may seek to disrupt U.S. space operations in the future. www.airandspaceforces.com/china-practi...

The U.S. military is expected to send additional aircraft to the Middle East, U.S. officials tell me. www.airandspaceforces.com/us-strikes-h...

The U.S. military conducted strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen for the second day in a row tonight, hours after U.S. Air Force fighters helped fend off a drone attack by the Houthis in retaliation for an earlier round of U.S. strikes. www.airandspaceforces.com/us-strikes-h...

The U.S. is conducting another round of strikes against the Houthi targets in Yemen tonight, a U.S. official tells me.

News: "Bloody Saturday" for Voice of America and other U.S.-funded international networks Mass indefinite suspensions at Voice of America, Radio/TV Marti Federal contracts severed for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia & more My NPR story www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...

NEW: U.S. Air Force U-2 spy planes are flying along the southern border, Air Force and defense officials disclosed. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-u-...

OSD-SOLIC clarifies that, exactly as @davidsterman.bsky.social suspected, they sourced this claim not from any internal DOD document about a previously unacknowledged 1998 Afg operation but from this 2021 post about SOF dogs from this nonprofit: web.archive.org/web/20210802...

In this LinkedIn post, the Pentagon’s ASD-SO/LIC office appears to be saying that a previously unacknowledged DOD ground operation occurred in Afg in 1998. The 9/11 commission and other accounts only describe covert action that year by the CIA’s Afghan surrogates, with JSOC planning support.

The U.S. military is sending approximately 40 Air Force intelligence analysts to beef up its surveillance of the southern border. Some will serve at the HQ of Joint Intelligence Task Force-Southern Border at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, a defense official told me. www.airandspaceforces.com/pentagon-dep...

Vets Find Their History Erased Last month, the Pentagon ordered the removal of military news content that promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion, and in the weeks since, some Air Force veterans and civilians have been surprised by what disappeared. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-de...

D.C. area friends of MRE, join us tomorrow Wednesday, March 12 for a happy hour at Nighthawk Brewery & Pizza in Pentagon City (1201 S. Joyce Street, Arlington, VA 22202) at 5:30 p.m. We’d love to have you. More details here: www.militaryreporters.org/2025/03/join...