Hypersonic weapons travel faster than Mach 5 but have the maneuvering capabilities of cruise missiles during their entire flight.

A giant 72-year-old hangar at Yokota Air Base is getting a makeover.

An investigative journalist in Japan has released over a dozen documents that cover the storage and leakage of chemical weapons, lead in the drinking water at schools on Kadena Air Base and “forever chemicals” like PFOS contamination at Kadena and Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

Air Force 1st Lt. Kenneth Allen, 27, with the RAF Lakenheath-based 48th Fighter Wing, was killed after his plane plunged into the North Sea about 140 miles northeast of the base on June 15.

Yokota Air Base, where a spike in locally acquired infections began Nov. 13, reported 21 new cases Saturday and Sunday, 19 of them already in quarantine due to contact tracings.

The airman, assigned to Kadena Air Base, was last spotted clinging to his board by a surfing companion at approximately 9 a.m. Sunday. The Air Force has not yet confirmed the missing airman’s identity.

Security forces at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida have begun using robot dogs for patrolling the installation, a first for the mechanized pooches.

A new $4 million, 7,000-square-foot laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base will boost Air Force Research Laboratory development of high-tech components for spacecraft.

A U.S.-European satellite designed to extend a decades-long measurement of global sea surface heights was launched into Earth orbit from California on Saturday.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said the state’s hospitals are projecting a surge in coronavirus patients in the coming weeks.

Okinawa police said they plan to refer a DUI charge against an airman to the Naha prosecutor’s office.

For military tuition assistance, Air Force and Space Force service members are eligible for up to $4,500 per fiscal year and a maximum of $250 per semester hour or quarter-hour equivalent to cover tuition and certain fees.

The spike in coronavirus infections is Yokota Air Base’s highest one-day total thus far, exceeding the previous high mark, 14, reached Wednesday.

The Pentagon has narrowed its choices on the permanent headquarters location for U.S. Space Command to six finalists, Air Force officials announced Thursday. A final decision is expected in early 2021.

An aircraft maintenance contractor is not liable in the 2014 death of a civilian Department of Defense pilot who crashed over the Gulf of Mexico during a flight out of Tyndall Air Force Base, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations at U.S. Space Force, has confirmed that a new National Space Intelligence Center will be located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Doses of a COVID-19 vaccine fast-tracked for emergency use will arrive at Vandenberg Air Force Base and will be available within the next month, according to the commander of the 30th Space Wing.

A coronavirus surge in South Korea and Japan has pushed the number of new infections in those countries to heights not seen since August.

The assignment of two squadrons from NASIC at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to a new national space-focused intelligence center does not threaten NASIC or dilute its mission, advocates of the Air Force base believe.

Hundreds of airmen and more than 10 F-16 fighter jets from Spangdahlem Air Base have deployed to the Middle East to support combat operations and train with regional allies, Air Force officials said Tuesday.

An Eglin Air Force Base unit will become a primary building block of an Air Force effort to boost U.S. capabilities in offensive and defensive electronic warfare, according to the commander of the service's Air Combat Command.

The Navy reported two new coronavirus cases in Japan on Tuesday, the Army three and the Air Force six.

The ceremony comes as the U.S. transitions into a new presidency and following SpaceX's launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday.

New Mexico is on a shelter-in-place order through Nov. 30 due to a spike in positive COVID-19 cases statewide.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the military’s No. 2 officer, intends to retire next year at the end of his first term in the high-level Pentagon position, his spokeswoman said Monday.

Many customers have struggled to complete the new, glitch-filled electronic forms, and military postal clerks are having to input data on the forms manually at the post office, leading to longer wait times.

Can a World War II-era plane outrace a modern-day speed boat? An open-cockpit SNJ plane once used to train pilots during World War II will be racing at high speed just 500 feet above a 47-foot international power boat racing legend.

If a court-martial proceeds against former Air Force Research Lab commander Maj. Gen. William Cooley, it would be the first time a case involving an Air Force general has gone to court-martial, according to the president of Protect Our Defenders, an organization which advocates for victims of sexual assault in the military.

The first launch is SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Nov. 21 just after noon. It will launch the ocean observation satellite Sentinel-6, which would add to long-term sea level data.

An Air Force investigation disclosed evidence of misconduct by Air Force Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley leading to a charge of sexual assault against Cooley, the Air Force said Tuesday.

Air Force 1st Lt. David Schmitz, 32, was killed June 30 as he attempted to land at Shaw Air Force Base during a nighttime training flight.

The 30-day declaration was announced Monday evening by Commander Kristen Aguilar in a video and written statement. The declaration allows base commanders to force quarantine and other restrictions of movement for anyone on base.

The bulk of the new coronavirus cases reported by the U.S. military were new arrivals to the countries.

During a 2017 training flight, Maj. Brett DeVries flew for 25 minutes after a misfire in the aircraft’s 30 mm cannon caused the canopy and several panels to blow off.

In February, the Air Force unveiled the name of its new combat rescue helicopter, which follows the tradition of the Vietnam-era HH-3E Jolly Green and the HH-53 Super Jolly Green.

The emergency declaration follows a series of safety measures to control the spread of the virus — including a 10 p.m. curfew and limiting access to the base — imposed last week by Fort Bliss' commander, Maj. Gen. Sean Bernabe.

Airman 1st Class Leonard Cantrell Jr. old no one about the day he saved a woman and her daughter from the icy waters of Okinawa’s Tataki waterfall, but his airmen friends reported his actions to leadership.

Beijing, with its “maligned and coercive activity that’s frequently not in accordance with international law,” is the greatest challenge facing the region, said the Pacific Air Forces commander.

One person was injured in a late Thursday morning fire on the main portion of Eglin Air Force Base, according to a brief statement from the 96th Test Wing's public affairs office

Mohammad Hassani has been arrested in connection with the death of Staff Sgt. D'Andrea Smith Wednesday night near Kirtland Air Force Base.

The 255,000-square-foot, five-story Intelligence Production Complex will be an expansion of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, a 650,000-square-foot facility. Construction is expected to begin later this month.

An outbreak of the coronavirus at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., has forced the postponement of the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy football game at West Point.

Uncertainty over the result of this week's presidential election has given way to legal action, demonstrations and even violence. In this tense time, the Military Matters podcast looks back at interviews from of last season's episodes on the use of the military to handle episodes of civil unrest.

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service will host Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan on its “Chief Chat” social media broadcasts this month to recognize valor for Veterans Day.

The Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) held a competition to select a set of flight experiments, and one of those experiments will involve tracking objects between the Earth and the moon.

Senior Airman Richard Samaroo, 21, of North Brunswick, N.J., was found unresponsive at approximately 12:25 p.m., according to a statement from the 51st Fighter Wing at Osan. His death is under investigation.

Late last month, five female fighter pilots tested a modified version of the so-called advanced technology anti-gravity suit that is designed to better fit women or any male pilot with an atypical build.

Senior Airman Edwin Leyva was pronounced dead at Yokota’s Urgent Care Center, according to a statement Tuesday from the 374th Airlift Wing.

The Space Force will soon have its first astronaut when an Air Force colonel joins the newest military service in a ceremony planned during his upcoming space mission, a Space Force official said Monday.

The Pentagon wants to open a new school in the coming years specifically to teach troops to spot and kill small enemy drones, as the military seeks a uniform approach to defeating the small, unmanned aircraft, which officials have labeled a growing battlefield threat.

An individual tested positive for the coronavirus at Yokota Air Base while still in isolation after returning from travel outside Japan.

An airman died at Yokota's Urgent Care Center.

A civilian military maintainer who worked at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo died in a motorcycle crash Saturday morning, according to Japanese police.

Staff Sgt. Nicholas Brunetto never expected to receive an award for his actions in combat with a Special Forces team ambushed in Afghanistan earlier this year.

Air Force 1st Lt. Rio Sarmiento was set to make history in mid-August when she boarded the amphibious assault ship USS America in Japan and headed out to sea with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.

The fallen grads’ cutouts are part of a program launched in September by the athletic department to raise money to support cadet athletes and ensure that coronavirus restrictions don’t mean the nearly 47,000-capacity stadium is empty for home games.

The Air Force is discarding its decades-old height standards, which have disqualified nearly half of female candidates and had a particular impact on women of color.

A video shows a C-17 in Afghanistan landing on a runway with its nose landing gear up at Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport on the morning of Oct. 18.

The 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base is investigating how one of its F-15C Eagle fighter jets lost a small cap during a joint exercise.

The groundbreaking for National Air and Space Intelligence Center's five-story Intelligence Production complex is scheduled next week at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

In Louisiana, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans was shut down Thursday as the city remained without power. Keesler Air Force Base, located on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Miss., was also closed Thursday.

A warehouse complex at Osan Air Base will handle cargo for the Defense Department and other service branches.

Mark Gooch has pleaded not guilty to the shooting death of Sasha Krause, 27. The Mennonite woman disappeared from her church community outside Farmington, New Mexico, in January as she was gathering material for a Sunday school class.

Aircraft were being evacuated from at least a couple of area military bases as Hurricane Zeta approached the shores of the northern Gulf Coast on Wednesday.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is preparing to make land available to third-party investors or users for possible leasing and development.

Some students at Aviano Air Base might have to switch from in-person to online learning and to go into quarantine after a member of the Defense Department school community tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said.

Descartes will work on this research and development project with the Air Force Research Lab's Space Technology Advanced Research program based at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.

The pilot from the 25th Fighter Squadron was on a routine training flight when he released the non-explosive projectile over rough, remote terrain just south of Pilsung Ragne.

Over the next 10 days approximately 9,000 U.S. service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Air Force will train with 37,000 Japanese personnel along with 20 ships and 170 aircraft.

Students at most overseas Department of Defense Education Activity schools will receive free meals for the rest of the school year, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service said Monday.

The decision was made based on utilization rates, revenue generated and long-term sustainability. Over the last five years, the course has lost an average of $144,000 a year, according to a base spokesperson

Tyndall Air Force Base has done a complete 180 degrees from talks of closing down the base two years ago to becoming the base of the future.

The fitness program proposal has received almost 800 votes and is now the most popular suggestion for Air Force Spark Tank 2021, a campaign designed to spur creative solutions and improvements by airmen.

Four B-1B Lancers arrived at Andersen Air Force Base with 200 airmen from Texas and will train with joint forces and allies.

Col. Cassius Bentley III, commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, said Wednesday his "first priority is our airmen," but noted that those airmen are facing some difficult challenges.

Someone affiliated with Yokota High School tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a letter to families and school staff from the school's principal.

Four of the service members who tested positive for the coronavirus arrived on government-chartered flights at Osan Air Base, other three traveled on commercial aircraft that landed at Incheon International Airport.

Ohio's largest single-site employer, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has been largely closed down for the past seven months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with only 10% of the base's typical 30,000 workers permitted to be physically on base in the pandemic's earliest weeks.

Airman 1st Class Sarah Figueroa said on social media that she experienced sexual harassment and retaliation at Misawa Air Base.

Kaveonne I.R. Dearmon is accused of engaging in sexual activity with a girl younger than 14 years old, who was pretending to be 19 years old on the dating app Tinder.

The new apartments at the Air Force Enlisted Village are intended primarily to serve the surviving spouses of retired enlisted Air Force, Air National Guard or Air Force Reserve personnel.

An employee who worked at the Kazoku Place restaurant inside Rocker Enlisted Club contracted the coronavirus from a family member, according to Kadena Air Base.

F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets scrambled late Monday to intercept Russian long-range bombers and fighters flying off Alaska’s coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday.

The first seven recruits for Space Force, the military’s newest service branch, were sworn in Tuesday by Gen. David Thompson, the vice chief of space operations.

Yokota Air Base may hire more local Japanese personnel for long-term childcare positions rather than rotate staff as U.S. personnel come and go, the base commander said.

The terminal caters to passengers and handles luggage on the Patriot Express, which flies Boeing 767 jets between Yokota and Kadena air bases in Japan, Osan Air Base, South Korea, and the U.S. West Coast.

An airman assigned to Dyess Air Force Base was arrested Wednesday on charges that he uploaded an image of child pornography onto the internet from his home in Abilene, the city’s police department said.

Airmen in specific jobs are now being selected for random coronavirus testing to determine whether further public health actions are needed to identify asymptomatic personnel and prevent the spread of the virus, the Air Force Materiel Command has announced.

An upcoming Netflix film, shot largely on an Air Force base on Guam, features an annual Air Force operation that brings donations and supplies to remote islands in Micronesia.

The Yokota COVID-19 Errands Run Group is coordinating an event Oct. 31 in which costumed volunteers will deliver candy to the doorsteps of those quarantined in on-base housing, temporary tower units and the Kanto Lodge.

Charles “Chuck” Holbrook was killed Jan. 31, 2017 at White Sands Missile Range when he was shot by an instructor pilot and a student pilot during a training exercise.

Dayton Area Ford Dealers intend to honor area veterans of the Global War on Terror with the Ford Oval of Honor next month at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

The two service members with the coronavirus traveled on government-chartered flights that landed at Osan Air Base on Oct. 2 and Oct. 12.

In this fast take episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez discusses feedback we've gotten after the QAnon episode, and explores possible characteristics about veterans and service members that make them so vulnerable to extremism. To uncover more, he talks again with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

Military, education, city, county and business leaders gathered in front of the Maxwell Air Force Base main gate Wednesday to stress the importance the base has to Montgomery's success, and how dependent its future is on the Montgomery Public School system.