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.

The review recommends that Britain open talks with America and NATO on the “potential benefits and feasibility of enhanced UK participation in NATO ’s nuclear mission”. Recent upgrades to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk allow the base to accommodate nuclear bombs. This suggests involvement in the nuclear-sharing mission.

The new funding will support Pixxel’s work on imaging payloads aimed at enhancing India’s airborne and space-based surveillance capabilities.

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.

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