MOUNTAIN HOME AFB, Idaho — The 391st Fighter Squadron became the first operational unit to use the GBU-53/B, the Air Force’s new small diameter bomb known as StormBreaker, Nov. 2 at the Utah Test and Training Range.

Four F-15Es from the 366th Fighter Wing had the opportunity to employ this new …

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. —- The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration rolled out the first production unit of the B61-12 nuclear bomb at its Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas, Nov. 23.

The B61-12 is DOE’s first major modernization program of an Air Force nuclear warhead in ove…

ST. PETERSBURG — Flight tests of the cutting-edge VK-650V engine on the light multirole helicopter Ka-226T will start in 2023, chief designer of the VK-650V engine in UEC-Klimov Anastasia Solovyova told reporters on Monday.

“We will initiate flight tests on Ka-226T in 2023 and will further cont…

SAN DIEGO — Northrop Grumman Corporation has been issued a task order to support the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) to begin engineering and planning work to reconfigure four United States Air Force EQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk aircraft for use in the SkyRange fleet of t…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, will fulfill two orders of APG-79(V)4 AESA radars for the U.S. Marine Corps with a total value of $63 million.

The radar, which is a scaled version of the APG-79 AESA that equips F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter…

MOSCOW — Unmanned aerial vehicles developed in Russia outperform Turkey’s Bayraktar combat drones, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said in an interview with RBC.

“Russian-developed drones don’t just have the same technical capabilities as the unmanned aerial vehicles that you mention…