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Air Force Admits F-22 Raptors Won’t Hit 80 Percent Mission Capable Target On Time

Air Force Admits F-22 Raptors Won’t Hit 80 Percent Mission Capable Target On Time

The service says it has made real progress toward that goal, but keeping availability rates up in the long term could still be challenging.

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Russia Claims US Coalition “Mystery Helicopters” Supplying Arms To ISIS In Afghanistan

Russia Claims US Coalition “Mystery Helicopters” Supplying Arms To ISIS In Afghanistan

There’s no evidence to support the allegations, but they are another prime example of Russia’s active information warfare campaign against the US.

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Secretary Of Defense Carter Keeps Touting The Secret Weapons He Has Up His Sleeve

Secretary Of Defense Carter Keeps Touting The Secret Weapons He Has Up His Sleeve

Ashton Carter is a big tease when it comes to America’s classified super weapons.

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The Alarming Case of the USAF’s Mysteriously Missing Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles

The Alarming Case of the USAF’s Mysteriously Missing Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles

The USAF has them but isn’t telling us they do, or they don’t. Either way we are in trouble. Here’s why.

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Ukraine Situation Report: President Zelensky Has Been Begging NATO For Tanks

Ukraine Situation Report: President Zelensky Has Been Begging NATO For Tanks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told NATO leaders today he wants rocket artillery, anti-ship missiles, and more.

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Why the B-2 Stealth Bomber Was Used to Strike ISIS Camps in Libya

Why the B-2 Stealth Bomber Was Used to Strike ISIS Camps in Libya

America’s most valuable stealth combat aircraft might have seemed like an odd choice to bomb a target whose air defenses were neutered in 2011. It wasn’t.

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The Possibility Of Russians Using Tactical Nukes and the Strategic Importance Of The Arctic

The Possibility Of Russians Using Tactical Nukes and the Strategic Importance Of The Arctic

As US-Russian relations unwind, we’re seeing the possibility of new threats and new battlefields, as “60 Minutes” reported.

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Air Force Eyes Air-Breathing, Rocket-Plane Mothership

Air Force Eyes Air-Breathing, Rocket-Plane Mothership

A UK company famous for exotic engine designs and spaceplane concepts might be getting into bed with the Air Force Research Laboratory. 

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How a Small-Town Girl Ended Up in the Cockpit of an A-10 Warthog

How a Small-Town Girl Ended Up in the Cockpit of an A-10 Warthog

And in her spare time she rides horses.

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China’s Y-20 Airlifters Make Crisis Debut Bringing Medics And Cargo To Virus Plagued Wuhan

China’s Y-20 Airlifters Make Crisis Debut Bringing Medics And Cargo To Virus Plagued Wuhan

Other aircraft took part in the operation, as well, which makes a notable surge in the Chinese military’s involvement in the response to the epidemic.

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