WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has scrapped its plan to create an independent command expected to drive modernization developments. “This restructuring will accelerate the delivery of combat power, ...

Lt. Col. William “Skate” Park led a squadron of Air Force F-16s in the Middle East, and defended the USS Harry S. Truman from ...

The Air Force would buy 24 F-35As in 2026 under a draft budget plan from the Pentagon, which would be about half as many as the service usually buys. (Senior Airman Nicholas Rupiper/Air Force) The Air ...

The Air Force may cut short its planned purchases of F-35 jets, depending on how newer development efforts go, the service’s outgoing secretary said Thursday. “Our inventory objective for the F-35 is ...

Deep cuts to the Air Force’s F-35 program and the elimination of the E-7 Wedgetail program would prove a “costly and strategic blunder” for the service, a retired three-star general said Thursday.