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About 130 airmen from Charleston Air Force Base are set to deploy as an entire C-17 squadron to the Middle East.

DAVAO, Philippines : A military transport plane that crashed after takeoff in the southern Philippines with nine people aboard sank up to 1,000 feet under water, too deep for divers to reach, air force ...

WASHINGTON : The Pentagon is in danger of missing a self-imposed deadline to award a politically charged $35 billion deal to Boeing or Northrop Grumman for Air Force refueling tankers ahead of the next ...

Air Force to re-evaluate fuel project at Malmstrom Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writer BILLINGS, Mont.

KNOXVILLE - A retired University of Tennessee engineering professor went on trial Monday, accused of passing secrets from his work on a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign graduate students, one from China ...

The Air Force says the pilots are at fault in a jet crash that killed one pilot.

Roger Daniels, left, and Idus Spooner, top center, work to secure their house from the flood waters of the Ochlocknee River, Monday, Aug.

Fishermen found body parts, debris and documents Tuesday that were believed to be from a C-130 military transport plane that disappeared after taking off in the southern Philippines with nine crew members on board.

Air force chief Lt. Gen. Pedrito Cadungog said 'it is highly probable' that the remains belonged to the aircraft that lost contact within minutes of takeoff from Davao International Airport at 8:50 p.m. Monday. He said the debris included a plane wheel and other parts.

The weather was reported clear at the time of the crash.

As the U.S. military scrambles to get more robotic warplanes like the Predator drone aloft, it is confronting an unexpected adversary: human error.

The drones are prized by the Pentagon for their ability to provide reconnaissance imagery and close-air support to ground commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But an Air Force researcher has found that operator mistakes are responsible for a growing number of Predator mishaps in recent years, a period in which the drones have been flown by increasingly inexperienced crews.

PHOENIX - U.S. border police arrested a member of the U.S. Air National Guard driving four Mexican illegal immigrants in a car in southern Arizona, authorities said on Monday.Border Patrol spokeswoman Esmeralda ...

Sheppard Air Force Base's 106 T-38 Talons will all receive replacement parts because of a fatal crash in Mississippi.

The Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board is expected to release its report Monday on a February jet crash over the Gulf of Mexico that killed one airman and injured another.

Appearing on C-Span's "Newsmakers," Air Force Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., who leads both NorthCom and North American Aerospace Defense Command, cited recent cyber attacks against the former Soviet republic of ...

A small plane carrying U.S. humanitarian workers crashed in a field in eastern Guatemala on Sunday, killing 10 people, including five Americans, an aviation official and a survivor said.

A U.S. District Court Judge has awarded an Air Force couple $7.5 million for a malpractice case against the Andersen Air Force Base family clinic.

A passenger jet heading to Iran with up to 123 people aboard has crashed near the main airport in Kyrgyzstan.

NEW DELHI: The multinational air exercise 'Exercise Red Flag' at the Nellis base of the U.S Air Force in Nevada entered its crucial phase following the crawl, walk and run pattern of exercising.

Ellsworth Air Force Base officials say expanding a western training airspace would help B-1B bomber pilots practice in a more realistic atmosphere without having to travel long distances.

Thousands of Georgians demanded that Russian troops leave the outskirts of this strategic Black Sea port on Saturday and took to the streets in protest, while a top Russian general said his country's forces would keep patrolling the area.

The comments by deputy head of the general staff Col.-Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, reported by Russian news agencies, showed that despite protests from the United States, France and Britain, Russia was confident enough to occupy whatever part of Georgia it deemed necessary.

Government officials joined thousands of mourners at Lusaka airport on Saturday to welcome the remains of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa who died in a Paris hospital this week.