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Shaw F-16 squadron to train with Vermont Air Guard F-35s in offensive counter-air ops

The Agile Combat Employment capabilities of a small contingent of airmen from the 55th Fighter Squadron will be tested as they work out of a deployed, simulated remote location.

By Air Force Times staff

3 years ago

US Air Force tests electronic warfare capabilities with fighter, recon and bomber aircraft

The Air Force concluded a test event evaluating the F-35's ability to provide Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses for other stealthy platforms.

By Mark Pomerleau

4 years ago

Here’s how F-35 technology would be compromised if Turkey also had the S-400 anti-aircraft system

The U.S. Air Force was able to bomb Libya with impunity after knocking out its relic of an Integrated Air Defense System, but what if the country had actually maintained a competent IADS network?

By Kyle Rempfer

5 years ago

A battlefield bond, unbroken: Goldfein reunites with PJ who rescued him in Serbia

The bond between Gen. Dave Goldfein and the airmen who rescued him after he was shot down in Serbia remains as strong as ever.

By Stephen Losey

5 years ago

South Korea’s new defense report backs off from calling North Korea its enemy

The conciliatory tone comes as U.S. and North Korean leaders look toward a second summit on the North's nuclear program.

5 years ago

5 things to know about Guantanamo Bay on its 115th birthday

Dozens of detainees remain at "Gitmo" and President Trump has ordered that it remain open indefinitely.

By Jana Lipman, Tulane University

5 years ago

US military wants to use genetically engineered life forms to track enemy subs

Researchers are looking at military uses for genetically modified sea creatures.

By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider

5 years ago

The inside story of how a US Navy pilot shot down a Syrian jet

It was the American military's first shootdown of an enemy plane since 1999

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

6 years ago

The Air Force is arming pilots with this longer-range, stand-off rifle to use if they’re ever shot down

The self-defense weapon is a variant of the M4.

By Kyle Rempfer

6 years ago

Bowe Bergdahl judge begins deliberating sergeant's sentence

A military judge on Thursday began deliberating the punishment for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after defense attorneys asked for no prison time while prosecutors sought more than a decade behind bars.

7 years ago

Judge: Bergdahl to get fair sentence, despite Trump remarks

President Donald Trump’s scathing criticism of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl won’t prevent the soldier from receiving a fair sentence for endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, a judge ruled Monday.

7 years ago

Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion, misbehavior

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl told a military judge he’s pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

7 years ago