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.
- Air Force can't quit the A-10 Warthog, extends service into 2030 (taskandpurpose.com)
- 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Iran war took a toll on the Air Force's Reaper fleet (taskandpurpose.com)
- Former US Air Force master sergeant pleads guilty to defrauding military by $37M (www.theguardian.com)
- When U.S. Air Force discovered the flaw of averages (2016) [pdf] (noblestatman.com)
- Air Force Recruits Most New Airmen Since 2004, Making Goal Early (www.airandspaceforces.com)
- USAF Esports Team Wins the 2026 Armed Forces Esports Championship (armedforcessports.defense.gov)
- China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus (www.cnbc.com)
- Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American (www.forbes.com)
- Trump: Australia's media bargaining laws 'foreign extortion' (www.theguardian.com)
- JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet (www.reuters.com)
- One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One (www.atlasobscura.com)
- Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets (www.scmp.com)
- US Air Force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing Supreme Court's Chevron ruling (www.theguardian.com)
- Upside Down Air Force (www.frontiernet.net)
- The USAF's "Upside-Down Air Force" (www.twz.com)
- NZ Air Force carries out 'world-class medical evacuation' in Antarctica (www.stuff.co.nz)
- Pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with US Air Force plane near Venezuela (www.theguardian.com)
- F-35 'kill switch' could allow Trump to disable European Air Force (www.telegraph.co.uk)
- Retrofitting Qatari jet as Air Force One will cost hundreds of millions (www.reuters.com)
- Air Force Confirms Its F-35As Were Mission Capable About Half the Time in 2023 (www.airandspaceforces.com)
- Air Force fires head of Sentinel ICBM program (www.defenseone.com)
- Qatar-gifted Air Force One may be security, upgrade disaster (www.defensenews.com)
- Israeli Air Force major charged [..] classified info to place bets on Polymarket (www.timesofisrael.com)
- Air Force Tests Subscale Model of Blended-Wing Body Jet (www.airandspaceforces.com)
- Air Force security team can breach an 'impenetrable' SCIF in one minute (taskandpurpose.com)
- Musk's Alleged Russia Contacts Worry Air Force's Kendall (www.bloomberg.com)
- Ukraine's Air Force has survived. Taiwan's almost certainly couldn't (www.aspistrategist.org.au)