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Service officials announced that, by December, missileers will have their information submitted to the Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System -- a Pentagon database for reporting occupational and exposure hazards.

Troops Spent Decades Elbow-Deep in Dangerous Chemicals To Keep Nuclear Missiles Working. It's the radiation that most people think about. Shut in 60 feet underground not far from the massive nuclear weapons, missileers keep careful watch of the projectiles designed to bring about...

The US Air Force has selected the Sierra Nevada Corporation to replace the nation's four ageing E-4B Nightwatch planes in a $13bn deal.

The findings, released publicly Monday, "found no instances of contamination above regulatory action levels" after testing for polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and volatile organic compounds that are believed to have negative health effects."

The U.S. Air Force's newest helicopter—the MH-139 Gray Wolf—has taken its first flight at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.

An Air Force analysis of 2.2 million airmen's medical records revealed 198 cancer cases among missileers and 5,063 cases across the wider service.

The U.S. Air Force deployed its first Minuteman missile in 1962. There’s no getting around this basic point, that America’s intercontinental ballistic

A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., lands on the flightline in support of exercise Prairie Vigilance and Bayou Vigilance 24-2 at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Jan. 4, 2024. Air Force Global Strike Command maintains a credible strategic capability that enhances deterrence of threats to the United States, its allies and partners. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexander Nottingham)

The B-1B Lancer has been in service with the Air Force since the mid-1980s, and about 60 of the aircraft are left in the fleet.

The Air Force Says B-52 being able to carry as many hypersonic cruise missiles as possible will be key in any future conflict with China.