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. DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (www.darpa.mil)
   268 points by r2sk5t 26 days ago | 336 comments
2. US Air Force jet engine manufacturing plagued by 'significant challenges' (www.militarytimes.com)
   20 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 25 comments
3. How Does the Qatar-Donated Air Force One Compare with Other Presidential Jets? (www.wsj.com)
   5 points by thm 15 days ago | discuss
4. With Trump Secretly Evacuated, Imperiled Air Force One Became a Flying Decoy (www.nytimes.com)
   4 points by jbegley 6 days ago | discuss
5. Air Force conducts live-fire test for Collaborative Combat Aircraft program (www.acc.af.mil)
   4 points by lxm 28 days ago | discuss
6. U.S. Air Force F-16 realtime autonomous intercepts (news.lockheedmartin.com)
   3 points by r2sk5t 14 days ago | discuss
7. Trump switched planes earlier this month due to threat from Iran proxies (www.theguardian.com)
   9 points by prmph 24 days ago | discuss
8. The Uses of 'Treason' (www.cjr.org)
   4 points by robtherobber 21 days ago | discuss
9. Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents (github.com)
   42 points by funador 20 days ago | 22 comments
10. Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer
    13 points by throwaway260803 15 days ago | 5 comments
11. Show HN: I shrank DeepSeek V4 Flash to 57GB and it wrote a compiler on my Mac (huggingface.co)
    21 points by hacklas 2 days ago | 3 comments
12. Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts (arstechnica.com)
    1 points by rbanffy 31 minutes ago | discuss
13. Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
    112 points by abdik 1 day ago | 62 comments
14. Show HN: K7d – Fork live Kubernetes clusters in <1s –> GRPO-train AI on infra (github.com)
    2 points by gbxk about 2 hours ago | 1 comments
15. Why is the GitHub trending page weirdly excluding DeepSeek projects?
    9 points by tianyicui 2 days ago | 1 comments
16. JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet (www.reuters.com)
    378 points by divbzero 8 months ago | 319 comments
17. Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman (www.nhpr.org)
    231 points by duxup about 1 year ago | 418 comments
18. Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets (www.scmp.com)
    205 points by belter about 1 year ago | 305 comments
19. Boeing overcharged the U.S. Air Force 8,000% above market for soap dispensers (www.reuters.com)
    154 points by lr0 over 1 year ago | 132 comments
20. US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says (www.reuters.com)
    105 points by tartoran 2 months ago | 96 comments
21. Upside Down Air Force (www.frontiernet.net)
    104 points by stevage over 1 year ago | 17 comments
22. Tiny vanes glued to planes promise big savings for US Air Force (newatlas.com)
    52 points by dabinat over 1 year ago | 39 comments
23. Pilot narrowly avoids 'midair collision' with US Air Force plane near Venezuela (www.theguardian.com)
    32 points by prmph 8 months ago | 27 comments
24. B-52 bomber crashes shortly after takeoff at California's Edwards Air Force Base (www.cnn.com)
    31 points by bluedino 2 months ago | 4 comments
25. F-35 'kill switch' could allow Trump to disable European Air Force (www.telegraph.co.uk)
    30 points by laiysb over 1 year ago | 17 comments
26. Trump to accept luxury jet from Qatar to use as Air Force One – media report (www.rnz.co.nz)
    30 points by colinprince over 1 year ago | 10 comments
27. Retrofitting Qatari jet as Air Force One will cost hundreds of millions (www.reuters.com)
    29 points by geox about 1 year ago | 19 comments
28. Travelers on Air Force One ordered to throw away gifts, phones after China trip (techcrunch.com)
    27 points by leopoldj 3 months ago | 32 comments
29. Drone Incursions Closed Wright Patterson Air Force Base's Airspace Friday Night (www.twz.com)
    25 points by alchemist1e9 over 1 year ago | 18 comments
30. Qatar-gifted Air Force One may be security, upgrade disaster (www.defensenews.com)
    20 points by howard941 over 1 year ago | 2 comments
31. Air Force can't quit the A-10 Warthog, extends service into 2030 (taskandpurpose.com)
    19 points by ilamont 4 months ago | 5 comments
32. Israeli Air Force major charged [..] classified info to place bets on Polymarket (www.timesofisrael.com)
    16 points by defly 5 months ago | discuss
33. Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 from Qatar for Use as Air Force One (www.nytimes.com)
    15 points by duxup over 1 year ago | 9 comments
34. Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender members separated from service (apnews.com)
    15 points by petethomas about 1 year ago | 8 comments
35. Air Force bomber crashed on takoff at California base (www.nbcnews.com)
    14 points by r721 2 months ago | 3 comments
36. Air Force Tests Subscale Model of Blended-Wing Body Jet (www.airandspaceforces.com)
    14 points by rbanffy over 1 year ago | 2 comments
37. Trump to accept luxury jet from Qatar to use as Air Force One (www.cnn.com)
    14 points by gnabgib over 1 year ago | discuss
38. Musk's Alleged Russia Contacts Worry Air Force's Kendall (www.bloomberg.com)
    10 points by moosedman over 1 year ago | 2 comments
39. Ukraine's Air Force has survived. Taiwan's almost certainly couldn't (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
    10 points by ilamont over 1 year ago | discuss
40. Trump Wants a New Air Force One So Badly He's Refurbishing a Qatari Plane (www.wsj.com)
    9 points by impish9208 over 1 year ago | 7 comments
41. New Air Force One is unveiled, a $400M plane gifted by Qatar (www.cbsnews.com)
    9 points by naturalmovement about 2 months ago | 3 comments
42. Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Arrested for Providing Services to Chinese Military (www.justice.gov)
    9 points by 737min 6 months ago | 1 comments
43. Air Force pilots get innovative gear to 'go' while in the air (www.stripes.com)
    9 points by Bender over 1 year ago | 1 comments
44. Trump touts Boeing as builder of Air Force's future F-47 fighter (www.axios.com)
    9 points by richardboegli over 1 year ago | 1 comments
45. U.S. Air Force removes course that included Tuskegee Airmen, female WWII pilots (www.cbsnews.com)
    9 points by unclebucknasty over 1 year ago | 1 comments