Fort Dodge resident Gary Ryker loved to fly, and throughout his Air Force career he had a kind of plane he really enjoyed flying. He piloted an F-111 Aardvark fighter-bomber, which he said was the ...

President Donald Trump announced the U.S. possesses enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 150 times, emphasizing the need to resume nuclear testing due to concerns over Russia and China’s ...

The Olympus 593 was the soul of Concorde; it was its heartbeat and the force that let it slice through the skies at Mach 2.

the United States Air Force dispatched two B-1B Lancer bombers to South America, leading some to wonder why they're still ...

The Air Force plans to keep 76 B-52s flying into the 2050s and buy 100 B-21 Raiders, but the B-52J upgrade path—new F130 engines, AESA radar, and LRSO integration—has slipped and breached Nunn-McCurdy ...

With fire streaming from his engine and the right wing half enveloped in flames, Lindsey led the formation to drop their ...

Russia’s waging the world’s first war aimed at obliterating internet use in the target country, but Ukraine’s resistance is winning, says a top scholar on the conflict.

President Trump on Friday said he was not considering strikes within Venezuela following reports his administration had identified potential military targets within the country. Trump was asked ...

According to the Heritage Foundation's Index of U.S. Military Strength in 2024, at the close of FY 2023, the Air Force’s ...

An unclassified U.S. Air Force report, mandated by the 2025 NDAA, included figures of the required combat fleet, calling for an increase of nearly 300 ...

In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its ...

Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on the evolution of strategic bombers in the US Air Force. Voice, text and ...