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Watch this incredible cockpit clip of an A-10 Thunderbolt II landing on a dry...

The following video shows an A-10C Thunderbolt II from the 190th Fighter Squadron at Gowen Field in Idaho taking off from Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base and proceeding to an austere landing site at...

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Take a seat in one of the Air Force's last F-4 Phantoms

Two of the just twenty remaining Phantoms in the US Air Force have taken part in the EAA AirVenture airshow.Flying from Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, the two QF-4s performed two flyovers and one...

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Eerie night-vision footage shows F-22 Raptors refueling during air strikes on...

The clip in this post shows airmen assigned to the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron prepare their aircraft and refuel US F-22 Raptors using a KC-10 Extender tanker during an aerial refueling...

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This video lets you join F-22 pilots preparing for a night airstrike on ISIS

Filmed at Al Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates, this clip shows F-22 pilots with the 90th Fighter Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, preparing to launch at night for a...

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This is why the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest production plane ever

The SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest and highest-flying production aircraft ever to exist. It holds all of the world’s airspeed and altitude records, even after its retirement from the Air Force in the...

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US Air Force general: We need stealthy, nuclear-armed cruise missiles

The safety and survival of American civilians along with countless US military assets hinges, to some extent, upon the existence of a nuclear-armed, air-launched long-range stealthy cruise missile able...

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The US Air Force is vigorously upgrading its F-15 to compete with China

 The US Air Force is vigorously upgrading the 1980s-era F-15 fighter by giving new weapons and sensors in the hope of maintaining air-to-air superiority over the Chinese J-10 equivalent.The...

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The idea that SpaceX's rocket was sabotaged is 'pretty much a joke,' says...

On September 1, a SpaceX rocket burst into flames during a routine launchpad test, destroying a $200 million satellite that Facebook planned to lease.An ongoing investigation into the fireball, which...

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US Air Force signs $60 million contract so that its F-35 hits moving targets

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a nearly $60 million contract to Raytheon to equip its F-35 jets with a smart bomb that could strike moving targets.The contract includes 1,200 kits and other technical...

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Launching Elon Musk's car toward Mars was a backup plan — here's what SpaceX...

SpaceX on Tuesday launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time.The test payload was Musk's own Tesla Roadster, fitted with cameras and a dummy wearing a SpaceX space suit.But a former...

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A space junk disaster is a real possibility, and surprisingly little is...

China's school-bus-size Tiangong-1 modular space station is expected to fall to Earth in a fiery blaze on or around Easter Sunday.The US government is tracking the orbit of Tiangong-1 and about 23,000...

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This Air Force combat controller died alone while fighting insurgents on a...

US Air Force Technical Sgt. John Chapman will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.Chapman, a combat controller, was killed during a fierce firefight in Afghanistan in 2002.He will be the first...

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Astronaut Mark Kelly says Trump's order to create a Space Force 'is a dumb idea'

President Donald Trump on Monday advocated creating a sixth division of the military called the Space Force.Mark Kelly, a retired NASA astronaut, tweeted that this "is a dumb idea." The US Air Force...

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A scrappy competitor to SpaceX and Blue Origin just scored a crucial and...

Relativity Space is a startup focused on 3D-printed rockets that was founded by former SpaceX and Blue Origin engineersThe company has secured a launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...

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Millions of people signed up to storm Area 51 in September — here’s a look at...

A Facebook event focused on storming the infamous Area 51 United States Air Force base started as a joke, but has since taken on a life of its own.The event, known as "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop...

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SpaceX is suing the US Air Force, accusing it of awarding $2.3 billion worth...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is suing the US Air Force over contracts it awarded as part of a program to assure constant military access to space.SpaceX argues that the $2.3 billion Launch Service Agreements...

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A dead NASA space telescope and an old Air Force satellite avoided a crash on...

A dead NASA telescope and an old US Air Force satellite avoided a collision in space above Pittsburgh on Wednesday evening, beating odds experts called "dangerous" and "alarming."A head-on collision...

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A renegade Air Force base is 'liking' Trump's 2020 campaign tweets that...

Royal Air Force Mildenhall, an airbase near Suffolk, England, appeared to be "liking" tweets related to President Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign since at least January.The verified Twitter...

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Air Force dismisses cadets due to 'inability' to carry out social distancing...

The US Air Force Academy in Colorado made the decision "to begin an orderly dismissal" of a "large" portion of its cadets in light of the coronavirus pandemic.The military academy deemed it was unable...

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Air Force One's million-dollar defenses can't stop mask-less passengers from...

Summary List PlacementThe iconic blue-and-white Boeing 747 that's supposed to keep President Donald Trump safe in the air may have been where he contracted COVID-19.Trump most recently flew on Air...

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