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U.S. Air Force to Update U-2 Dragon Lady Defensive System

The iconic 70-year-old spy plane is receiving updates to its AN/ALQ-221 Advanced Defensive System. Despite ever changing plans to retire the type in the next few years, the U.S. Air Force's U-2 Dragon ...
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B-21 Raider completed ‘close-proximity flight' with KC-135 tanker, US Air Force confirms

The event represents a precursor step toward validating capabilities essential for the B-21's long-range, penetrating strike ...
AOL

Air Force One Has Close Encounter with Spirit Jet During Trumps' Flight to U.K. for State Visit: 'Pay Attention. Get Off the iPad'

Stock photo of Spirit Airlines flight (left); President Donald Trump (right) The Spirit Airlines flight 1300 traveling from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Boston was instructed to steer clear of the ...

Former Beale Air Force Base pilot weighs in after deadly crash over Iraq

This week's mid-air crash between two Air Force jets that killed six flight crew members​ over Iraq is hitting close to home in Northern California.
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Fasten your seatbelt for this smart history of an unheralded Air Force bomber flight

Doom 34” is a primer on operational security, group dynamics, Air Force culture, flight operations and geopolitics.