March 20, 2020 Pentagon hypersonic weapons hit 'impact point' The Army, Navy and Pentagon fired off a new Hypersonic Glide Body engineered to travel more than five times the speed of sound and destroy enemy targets thousands of miles away in a matter of minutes, a Pentagon report said.
March 11, 2020 Army, Air Force scientists manage hypersonic weapons' 'heat flow' Air Force and Army scientists are making progress in their effort to bring hypersonic weapons development to a new level of effectiveness by exploring ways to better manage “heat flow” during hypersonic flight.
March 9, 2020 Army, Air Force Research Labs set sights on new hypersonic weapons They can take out targets faster than enemies can respond by destroying a wide range of air, sea, land and space targets. Traveling at five-times the speed of sound, they are nearly impossible to defend against and place fighter jets, ships, ground vehicles, satellites and ground assets at tremendous risk of nearly instant destruction -- they are hypersonic weapons.
March 5, 2020 Joe Biden confronted by veteran over Iraq War support: 'Blood is on your hands!' Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden is taking heat on Twitter after a video of a confrontation between him and members of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War went viral.
March 4, 2020 US Air Force: The history of the military branch The United States Air Force was born from humble beginnings. Benjamin Franklin first considered using air balloons for reconnaissance back in 1783 and since then, it has blossomed into the biggest and most powerful Air Force in the world.
February 28, 2020 Pennsylvania father, 3-year-old daughter released from coronavirus quarantine: 'I understand the fear' Frank Wucinski and his three-year-old daughter Annabel have returned home to Pennsylvania after undergoing coronavirus testing and quarantine for the second time since their evacuation from the disease's epicenter of Wuhan, China.
February 25, 2020 What is the 'Space Force' and how will it fit into the US military? In December 2019, President Trump signed a Defense spending bill authorizing the creation of a "Space Force," as the sixth branch of the United States armed forces. Here are the details on how it came to be and what to expect from it, going forward.
January 30, 2020 Hundreds attend Illinois funeral for veteran with no known family Hundreds of people turned out for the funeral of a U.S. Air Force mechanic who served in Vietnam on Wednesday after an invitation was extended to the general public.
January 30, 2020 New Air Force technology aims to stop nuclear attacks faster The Air Force and industry are taking new technical steps to quickly alert commanders in the event that the U.S. comes under nuclear attack, by increasing the time window with which decision-makers have to both defend and potentially retaliate.
January 27, 2020 US military plane that crashed in Afghanistan: What we know An Air Force statement has confirmed that the plane that crashed in Afghanistan Monday was a U.S. Air Force E-11A communications and electronic warfare plane.