Warfighters depend on high-frequency (HF) radio transmissions to operate military systems across the space, air, ground, and maritime domains. Current understanding of how HF waves propagate through the electromagnetically noisy ionosphere typically depends on ground-based methods. To more accuratel…

CREECH AFB, Nev. — Nearly 45 MQ-9 Reaper crews from across the United States entered Creech Air Force Base’s flight simulators April 6-7: only one crew emerged on top.

Testing remotely piloted aircraft pilots and sensor operators, exercise Reaper Smoke 2022 pitted dozens of aircrews against eac…

MONS, Belgium — Locked Shields 2022, the largest and most complex international live-fire cyber defence exercise in the world, wrapped up on Friday, Apr. 22, 2022.

This real-time network defence exercise, organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallin, E…

On September 17, 2021, the transfer of the first two Pilatus PC-21 (E.27) aircraft to the Air Force took place at the General Air Academy (AGA), once the acceptance tests at destination that were carried out had been passed. carried out by personnel from the Logistics Center for Weapons and Experime…

LANGLEY AFB, Va. — An Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board completed its investigation into an RQ-4B that crashed into a field near Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, August 6, 2021.

Around 6:16 a.m. local time, the aircraft was flying a mission in the local military operating…