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 ...

Near the end of the war in Vietnam, an American-built Northrop F-5 fighter in South Vietnamese markings dropped bombs on the South Vietnamese Independence Palace shortly before the fall of Saigon.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin told lawmakers Tuesday the service will be able to upgrade the sixth-generation F-47 with new technology quicker and easier than the F-35. (U.S. Air Force) ...