Hackernews posts about Air Force

Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States armed forces responsible for defending the country and its interests through air power.

1. Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market for soap dispensers (www.reuters.com)
   152 points by lr0 2 days ago | 132 comments
2. China to unveil J-35A stealth fighter jet as air force aims to match US power (www.cnn.com)
   2 points by wumeow 17 days ago | discuss
3. Crisis Brewing over Air Force's Future Air Dominance Plans (www.twz.com)
   1 points by peutetre 14 days ago | discuss
4. Show HN: Best way to setup a fullstack webapp using AI to get >97% code accuracy (github.com)
   4 points by weebhek about 5 hours ago | 3 comments
5. Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes (apps.apple.com)
   184 points by yeatsy 5 days ago | 73 comments
6. Show HN: Hercules – Open-Source software testing agent (testzeus.com)
   5 points by Smilinrobin 5 days ago | 9 comments
7. Show HN: Codebrew – An open-source AI-powered development workflow (early stage)
   1 points by jvanveen about 9 hours ago | discuss
8. Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE (codeium.com)
   100 points by fortenforge 9 days ago | 51 comments
9. Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets (breakingdefense.com)
   259 points by dcgoss 7 months ago | 425 comments
10. One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One (www.atlasobscura.com)
    252 points by rmason 3 months ago | 68 comments
11. An Air Force officer who spent $11M searching Earhart's plane may have found it (www.businessinsider.com)
    212 points by rntn 10 months ago | 166 comments
12. US Air Force shoots down drone swarm with THOR microwave weapon (www.thedefensepost.com)
    170 points by MR4D over 1 year ago | 246 comments
13. The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico balloon over Canada (www.rtl-sdr.com)
    165 points by upofadown almost 2 years ago | 166 comments
14. US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling (www.theguardian.com)
    139 points by Jimmc414 3 months ago | 173 comments
15. U.S. Air Force Evaluating Pivotal's Blackfly Ultralight EVTOL Aircraft (www.futureflight.aero)
    134 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 57 comments
16. Air Force OKs autonomous cargo flights across California after successful test (timesofsandiego.com)
    103 points by gardenfelder 9 months ago | 89 comments
17. Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force communications – report (www.theguardian.com)
    93 points by penda over 1 year ago | 51 comments
18. Anduril Selected for U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program (www.anduril.com)
    88 points by MaximilianEmel 7 months ago | 75 comments
19. U.S. Air Force selects fast microreactor for nuclear power pilot (www.powermag.com)
    86 points by Turing_Machine about 1 year ago | 93 comments
20. The US Air Force successfully tested AI-controlled jet fighter (arstechnica.com)
    85 points by a-human almost 2 years ago | 90 comments
21. The USAF's "Upside-Down Air Force" (www.twz.com)
    84 points by mauvehaus 6 months ago | 14 comments
22. Air Force funds ‘blended wing body’ design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight (www.popsci.com)
    77 points by webmaven over 1 year ago | 85 comments
23. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland to Operate as a Joint Air Force (old.reddit.com)
    72 points by oidar over 1 year ago | 14 comments
24. US Air Force MQ-9 camera footage: Russian Su-27 Black Sea intercept (www.eucom.mil)
    69 points by mzs over 1 year ago | 58 comments
25. The Air Force has loosened its restrictions on body fat for new recruits (www.airforcetimes.com)
    57 points by fortran77 over 1 year ago | 125 comments
26. Retired Air Force officer gets 3 years in prison for having classified documents (www.airforcetimes.com)
    48 points by Jimmc414 over 1 year ago | 15 comments
27. US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 has been dogfighting with humans (www.theregister.com)
    46 points by LorenDB 7 months ago | 75 comments
28. Three security teams just hacked a US Air Force satellite in space (www.space.com)
    45 points by aa_is_op over 1 year ago | 4 comments
29. US Air Force's new B-21 Raider "flying wing" bomber takes first flight (www.reuters.com)
    43 points by LinuxBender about 1 year ago | 89 comments
30. Air Force chief hints at existence of clandestine spy aircraft (www.twz.com)
    41 points by keepamovin 4 months ago | 15 comments
31. US Air Force DevOps Engineer Sets Himself on Fire in Protest War in Gaza (time.com)
    41 points by secondary_op 9 months ago | 12 comments
32. US Air Force colonel ‘misspoke’ about drone killing pilot (www.theguardian.com)
    39 points by chillycurve over 1 year ago | 16 comments
33. US Air Force MQ 9 camera footage: Russian Su 27 Black Sea intercept (www.youtube.com)
    37 points by hheikinh over 1 year ago | 15 comments
34. The Mexican Air Force no longer has any fighter aircraft in its inventory (2016) (www.thedrive.com)
    33 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | 58 comments
35. NZ Air Force carries out 'world-class medical evacuation' in Antarctica (www.stuff.co.nz)
    33 points by pavel_lishin 5 months ago | 5 comments
36. US Air Force wants $6B to build 2k AI-powered drones (www.theregister.com)
    29 points by LinuxBender about 1 year ago | 24 comments
37. Air Force selects AI-enabled predictive maintenance program as system of record (defensescoop.com)
    29 points by jdmark over 1 year ago | 11 comments
38. US Air Force to divest a total of 310 aircraft in 2024 including 32 F-22A Raptor (www.airandspaceforces.com)
    26 points by belter over 1 year ago | 43 comments