Lt. Gen. David Deptula, the first U.S. Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), says that the service must adapt its procurement system to respond more ...
Combat losses mount: Operation Epic Fury attrition has reduced the Air Force’s MQ-9 fleet to about 135 aircraft, far short of its 189-aircraft benchmark. Replacement in works: A new modular, ...
U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) in Afghanistan and Iraq is falling victim to too little bandwidth, too few trained analysts and a shortage of linguists who can survive a ...
The US Air Force (USAF) has started to define what could become its most important mobility aircraft since the C-17 Globemaster III – which entered service in the 1990s – with ...
The training pipeline for Air Force Special Recon is designed to create operators who can survive, observe, and report from some of the world’s most hostile environments. This story follows selection, ...
The U.S. Air Force has permanently relocated three Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk Block ...
L3Harris' Skyraider II is an ISR variant of the Air Tractor AT-802 airframe. (L3Harris Technologies) As the US Air Force (USAF) continues its modernisation of the Lockheed Martin C-130H variant while ...