Aviation Features

The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed Dragon Lady, is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency. […]

Organization of the U.S. Air Force World War II had been over for two years and the Korean War lay three years ahead when the Air Force ended a 40-year association with the U.S. Army to become a separate service. […]

TOPGUN is the popular name of the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor (SFTI) program. SFTI is the modern-day evolution of the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School and carries out the same specialized fighter training as NFWS had from 1969 until 1996, when it was merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at NAS Fallon, Nevada. […]

Here you’ll find multiple resources for Soldiers and Families. […]

Air Combat Command, with headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Va., is a major command created June 1, 1992 by combining its predecessors Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command . ACC is the primary provider of air combat forces to America’s warfighting commanders. […]

Veterans Day is the American name for the international day of called Armistice Day. It falls on 11 November, the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War One. […]

Relations between the Russian Federation and the United States since 1991 began after the demise of the Soviet Union. […]

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Boeing IDS), based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is a unit of The Boeing Company responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. […]

The colors inside and outside of the WC-130J Weatherbird are what stand out when flying into the eye of a hurricane. […]

The Airborne Laser is being developed as an integral part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System designed to protect the United States, its allies, and its deployed troops from a ballistic missile attack. […]