The U.S. Air Force is making a dramatic shift in how it protects its most vulnerable aircraft. For decades, lumbering tankers ...

The Pentagon is putting real money behind its vision of AI-piloted drones flying into combat alongside human fighter pilots. The U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program received full ...

The Air Force has started ground testing the Anduril-made YFQ-44A, a semi-autonomous drone known as a collaborative combat aircraft, and could start flying it this summer. (Anduril) The Air Force has ...

China is building up and modernizing its military as the US strives to maintain its edge. The focus on advanced technologies has put the two countries into a different kind of arms race. The US Air ...

An artist's rendering of the F-47, Boeing's pitch for the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter aircraft. (Air Force) The Air Force plans for its sixth-generation F-47 fighter to be able to fly ...

Over the past three decades, the Air Force has struggled to modernize its fleets of aircraft and missiles. As the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, the Air Force's only bomber modernization ...

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General Atomics ran an autonomy test with a testbed drone and a US Air Force F-22 Raptor. The F-22 pilot commanded the MQ-20, a stand-in for a future Collaborative Combat Aircraft. CCAs are loyal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on defense, strategy, the profession of arms, and aerospace. After decades in decline, President Trump is now inheriting ...