The following is the Nov. 28, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat ...

The head of Air Combat Command on Wednesday said he expects the Air Force to choose which company will develop its sixth-generation fighter jet later this year. The fate of the Air Force's Next ...

Following years of research and development on artificial intelligence, on Wednesday the Air Force announced it had down-selected two companies that would build and test prototype aircraft in a ...

The F-4 Phantom entered Vietnam with no gun, a fatal mistake that left pilots helpless in dogfights against nimble MiGs. We ...

The U.S. Air Force has begun seeking proposals for a potential $5.7 billion follow-on multiple-award contract to provide combat air forces contracted air support services to help protect U.S. assets ...

A Draken International A-4 at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina. Credit: U.S. Air Force AURORA, Colorado—The U.S. Air Force should increase its use of contracted adversary aircraft to provide more ...

To help advance the development of a data-driven and automated kill chain, the U.S. Air Force’s 805th Combat Training Squadron, or Shadow Operations Center-Nellis (ShOC-N), completed Experiment 3, a ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat ...

Berlin and Paris are racing to salvage their Future Combat Air System (FCAS), Europe’s largest weapons programme that is on ...