The Pentagon is scaling back by half its request to Congress for the U.S. Air Force's Lockheed Martin F-35 jets, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. A U.S. Defense Department procurement request document sent to Capitol Hill this week asked for 24 of the planes,

The U.S. Air Force operates different types of spy aircraft and maintains forward-deployed units around the globe.

Air Force officials say the E-7 must replace its aging E-3 AWACS planes and would be needed even when space-based ISR capabilities are in orbit.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday that it will “probably” cost the Air Force less than $400 million to retrofit a luxury Qatari plane that President Donald Trump has said he is getting from the Qataris as a gift to use as the new Air Force One.

Shiny mirrored cubes — a flashy new curriculum-based therapeutic tool — have been installed at more than two dozen Air Force bases.

The Air Force shelved ARRW after several unsuccessful tests but is now considering resurrecting the program to deliver Mach 5-plus capabilities.

President Donald Trump grew impatient with how long it was taking to finish new planes to serve as Air Force One, so he started to look for other options.

Air Force 2 landed in Butte on Tuesday and Vice President Vance's motorcade in enroute to Dillon.A military cargo has also landed in Butte and been on tarmac s