Aircrew members of an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System from the 963rd Airborne Air Control Squadron conduct a pre-flight check before takeoff during Vigilant Shield 15 in October 2014 at ...

Modernizing the Air Force’s battle management structure was one of seven “operational imperatives” Secretary Frank Kendall announced in March. (Colin Demarest/Staff) NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S.

When you look at the overall history of warfare, air battles are still relatively new. Considering the airplane is only around 120 years old, compared to civilizations fighting wars for centuries, air ...

A Ukrainian air force Sukhoi Su-25 over Bakhmut. Russian and Ukrainian pilots are braving enemy air-defenses to fly close-air-support and air-defense sorties over Bakhmut, arguably the locus of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — One way to restore offensive punch to the surface Navy is to discard the idea of Outer Air Battle to defeat a Soviet Cold War fleet in the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas and the ...

The U.S. Air Force has established a new, innovative organization whose charter is to “create an environment where innovative ideas are rapidly harvested and evaluated, leading to swift fielding of ...

Air-Sea Battle is described as a limited objective concept by the Department of Defense.[1] Some critics have argued that Air-Sea Battle must be more than a limited objective concept, possibly a war ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Two months after World War I began, French pilot Sgt.

Over the past several months there has been a lot of earnest discussion of the potential risks and rewards of the Pentagon’s concept called Air-Sea Battle (ASB). Many national security thinkers, ...

At the outset of the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force had just 446 operational fighters to fend off a Luftwaffe nearly ten times larger. While the pilots deserve — and received — much credit for ...