When the Air Force and Navy first started looking for a shared plane to replace several of their aging fighters, ...

Kelsey D. Atherton at 09:56 AM Aug 8 2016
Space // 

The Titan missile was an US Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile that NASA ultimately chose to launch its ...

Amy Shira Teitel at 09:36 AM May 16 2016

X-wings these are not. Someday, laser-toting airplanes may be sleek, small fighters, but first the U.S. Air Force ...

Kelsey D. Atherton at 12:01 PM May 11 2016
Space // 

In 1947, the Air Force played with kittens in microgravity. In October of 1962, the same lab published a report ...

Amy Shira Teitel at 09:57 AM Mar 21 2016

In 1783, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier launched a sheep, a duck, and a rooster in the open ...

Amy Shira Teitel at 13:51 PM Dec 14 2015
Drones // 

Military drones are cheap, but they could certainly stand to be a whole lot cheaper. At least, that's the rationale ...

Kelsey D. Atherton at 10:03 AM Jun 9 2015

According to the Air Force, the future of war in the sky is lasers. Lasers on new jet fighters are a future goal, ...

Kelsey D. Atherton at 11:31 AM May 27 2015
 
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