United States Air Force: News

03 Jan 2024

Travel And Tourism

Double New Year dreams shatter as 'time-travel' flight gets delayed

United Airlines' special "time-travel" flight UA200, intended to let passengers ring in the New Year twice, faced a six-hour delay on January 1, 2024.

01 Jan 2021

Captain America

#ComicBytes: Marvel characters who have served in the military

Every Marvel character has an origin story that makes them either good or evil.

05 Dec 2020

Robert Downey Jr.

#ComicBytes: Five things you didn't know about Iron Man

As Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr. was the face of Marvel Cinematic Universe for over a decade before his tragic demise in Avengers: Endgame. However, many key details about this character are still unknown to the fans.

27 Aug 2018

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: US strike kills IS commander Orakzai in Nangarhar province

A US strike over the weekend killed a senior Islamic State commander in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan and US officials said today.

03 Feb 2018

India

Jodhpur: US Air Force general flies fighter jet Tejas

American Air Force General David L Goldfein on Saturday became the first foreign military chief to fly India's light combat aircraft Tejas.

22 Nov 2017

Plane Crash

US Navy aircraft carrying 11 crashes in Pacific Ocean

A US Navy aircraft having 11 people on board has crashed into the Pacific Ocean, southeast of Okinawa, Japan.

16 Jun 2017

Donald Trump

US, Qatar ink $12 billion deal on F-15 fighter jets

Against the backdrop of Qatar's isolation in the Middle East, US has inked a $12 billion deal for supply of 36 F-15 fighter jets to Qatar.

13 May 2017

Moon

An alien army? UFO hunters spot a 'tank' on moon

A mysterious tank-like object has been spotted on The Moon, which researchers say could be an odd-shaped rock.

08 May 2017

US Military

US military's top secret X-37B space plane returns from orbit

After a record 718 days in orbit, the US Air Force's X-37B space plane has returned to Earth by landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.