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Lockheed Martin landed a $999 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for JASSM and LRASM missile lifecycle support.
We’re revisiting the Air Force’s major incentive program, offering up to $600,000 to retain experienced pilots. The move highlighted growing concerns over military aviation staffing.
A combination of budget constraints, strategic realignment, and the evolution of warfare in the decades since the A-10’s ...
France formally retired the last of its Boeing KC-135 tankers on 30 June, bringing to an end an operational run with the type which began in 1964.
The service moved up its retirement of its final 162 close attack fighters by two years in a new budget request. The Air Force also asked for far fewer F-35s.
The Air Force wants to retire its final 162 A-10 Warthog attack jets in fiscal 2026, as part of a plan to divest 340 total aircraft. The Pentagon also plans to cancel the E-7 Wedgetail program ...
The U.S. Air Force is reportedly speeding up plans to retire the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, better known as the “Warthog." ...
The mayor offered the retirement program in March in a pitch to save the city money. At the time, Houston was contending with a $330 million deficit.
It will “probably” cost hundreds of millions of dollars for the Pentagon to transform a luxury Qatari jet into Air Force One, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday.
Retired Air Force Colonel Samantha Weeks was the first female solo Thunderbird pilot. Dianne Derby talks with her about what it took to get there as how she is using her retirement to teach and ...
Mayor John Whitmire offered a voluntary retirement program to around 3,000 eligible employees to help boost cost savings.