TEHRAN, September 18 -The U.S. Air Force is predicting it will need to grow sharply over the next decade or so, boosting the number of operational squadrons by nearly a quarter to stay ahead of increasingly muscular militaries in China and Russia, officials said.
TEHRAN, September 01 -Operation Exercise Predictable Iron in North Carolina, which included more than 1,000 Army paratroopers and 40 tons of equipment, sought to strengthen skills needed for airdrop insertion on a mass scale.
TEHRAN, July 28 - The former spokesperson of the US Air Force’s notorious UFO investigation bureau, Project Blue Book, is demanding the Pentagon make public any evidence it has about aliens having visited Earth.
TEHRAN, July 28 - The skies over Australia’s northern coastline were filled with air force pilot top guns from 16 nations on Saturday in one of Asia-Pacific’s largest air force training exercises.
TEHRAN, July 06 - A MiG-29 military jet crashed during a night flight in the country's north and the Polish Air Force pilot was killed, despite ejecting before the crash, Poland's defense officials said Friday.
TEHRAN, June 25 -Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will send a satellite into orbit atop its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2020, the U.S. Air Force announced on Thursday.
TEHRAN, April 28 - The U.S. Air Force said the B-52s took off from Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam and “transited to the vicinity of the South China Sea” on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, March 29 - The US Air Force is likely to slash its purchases of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets to save money, a new study has revealed, a new threat to the costly program’s sustainability.
TEHRAN, March 25 - China's air force has held another round of drills in the disputed South China Sea and the Western Pacific after passing though Japan's southern islands, the air force said on Sunday, calling such exercises the best preparation for war.
TEHRAN, February 10 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that enemies are resorting to any means at their disposal, including cyberspace and sanctions, to undermine the Iranian nation’s faith in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
TEHRAN, February 3 - Germany’s Air Force chief “will likely be fired” if he “says ‘F-35’ again,” a local defense expert reports as debate about the Luftwaffe’s next-generation fighter jet grows in German military circles.
TEHRAN, January 10 - Yemen’s Air Force revealed the use of a new missile system that overthrew two Saudi advanced aggressive fighter planes over the past three days.
TEHRAN, December 9 - Pakistan’s Air Force (PAF) commander has reportedly ordered to take down drones violating the country’s sovereignty, including that of the US.
TEHRAN, November 21 -A US Air Force training jet crashed has crashed near Lake Amistad, Texas, killing the pilot and injuring another airman, according to officials at Laughlin Air Force Base.
TEHRAN, October 30 - The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force is to stage maneuvers recruiting the service of all the bases under its command throughout the country.
TEHRAN, October 9 - Commander of the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) held a meeting with commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) on Monday in Tehran.
TEHRAN, October 4 - The leader of Al-Nusra has been critically injured in an airstrike carried out by the Russian Air Force, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, adding that at least 12 Al-Nusra field commanders had been killed in the same attack.