ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Air Force is pressing forward with plans to demonstrate point-to-point rocket travel perhaps in a few years. Among the reasons for optimism are SpaceX’s launch rates ...

The U.S. Air Force announced on Monday that it intends to build two landing pads on a remote island in the Pacific. It wants to land rockets there as part of a test of the Rocket Cargo Vanguard ...

A U.S. Air Force MC-130J Commando II executes the first-ever European-theater live-fire demonstration of a Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile during exercise Atreus in Norway on Nov. 9, 2022 ...

A Coast Guard HC-130 evacuates personnel off Johnston Atoll due to a hurricane threat in 2019. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is set to launch an environmental ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The risk of war with China is spurring the U.S. Air Force to create “air mobility teams” charged with dispersing quickly to deliver cargo to far-flung spots across ...

Tech Sgt. Connor Oswald, a loadmaster assigned to the 4th Airlift Squadron, connects a fuel hose during a wet-wing defuel while Senior Airman John Soto, a fellow loadmaster, looks on at Thule Air ...

Since 1970, the US Air Force's C-5 cargo planes have carried troops and gear all over the world. The C-5 is the Air Force's biggest plane, and the latest model can haul 281,000 pounds and fly 518 mph.

The US Air Force is investing in a transport system that could one day deliver 100 tonnes for cargo or personnel by rocket to any spot on Earth in under 90 minutes. Unimaginatively called Rocket ...