Global Strike Command says it inspected about 8,000 of the handguns after the death of an airman in July. That death is under ...

Challenges remain for directed energy weapons, from their size and weight, to policies, procedures and training.

The Air Force is beginning to put a lot of resources into security forces, including upgraded kit and weapons, more practical physical fitness standards and better training under stressful conditions.

The US Air Force integrated BAE Systems' APKWS II guided rockets onto F-15E fighters in just nine days, dramatically ...

The AGR-20 APKWS II was extensively used in combat by Strike Eagles in the Middle East, but these are the first photos to ...

The Air Force carried out a captive-carry test of the Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW.

What the Air Force must determine as that future approaches is how this new operational reality will affect the roles and responsibilities of human airmen and the structure of their work.

The U.S. Air Force is refining its combat strategy, tactics and concepts of operation to accommodate the rapid emergence of laser weapons, technologies which promise to alter the landscape of ...

Since the 1980s, all three legs of the United States’ nuclear deterrent force have been kept up and running with regular, pricey maintenance and upgrades. But the Air Force is moving ahead with ...

For some time, engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory have been developing network collaborative autonomous technologies. Munitions that operate in coordination with unmanned aerial vehicles, ...

– The Air Force Research Laboratory is immersed in early work on a new-generation of hypersonic weapons designed to come after the currently emerging arsenal, expanding hypersonic mission ...

Although the Air Force’s work on hypersonic weapons is progressing, it’s not moving fast enough, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space ...