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 ...

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.

The future was nuclear, and the Air Force’s Strategic Air Command seemed to have a lock on the delivery systems. The Navy’s first bid for a piece of the strategic pie, the supercarrier USS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As head of APL’s Strategic Deterrence Mission Area, Robert Vercher will lead a mission area that provides key engineering capabilities and technical analyses and evaluations to ensure the performance ...

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.

A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a single Mark-21 High Fidelity Re-Entry Vehicle May 21 at ...