The US Air Force’s plan to retire its B-1B Lancer bombers as the new B-21 Raider becomes operational is questioned due to ...

Formerly the U.S. Army Air Forces, both these organizations regularly used long range strike missions. In 2003 the Department of Defense's Strategic Command or STRATCOM got four new jobs. These ...

The book, a history of the Strategic Air Command, provides a detailed examination of the organization’s deterrent role during the cold war. He spoke with Senior Associate Editor Diane Tedeschi.

with over 2,000 units eventually joining the U.S. Air Force’s Strategic Air Command (SAC), reaching a peak in the late 1950s. By 1965, however, the B-47 was on its way out, with the more capable ...

In the early years of the cold war, B-47s served as the spearhead of the Strategic Air Command, with the bomber fleet varying in size from 1,000 to more than 1,500 B-47s. We felt that we were the ...

Poised around the U.S.S.R.’s 37,500-mile perimeter, the U.S. Air Force’s Strategic Air Command, a 2,000-bomber force capable in a single sortie of hitting the U.S.S.R. with 2,000 times the ...

Initially employed by Strategic Air Command to satisfy nationally tasked intelligence collection requirements, the RC-135S has also participated in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.