The Air Force is likely to up its fitness standards, including the addition of a 2-mile run and twice-yearly testing, Air Force officials confirmed to Task & Purpose. “Yes, PT changes are coming,” ...

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test May 21, 2025, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, before flying 4,200 miles to a test center in ...

Sheppard Air Force Base hosted its Mission Generation Exercise, a firsthand look at how tomorrow’s warfighters are developed, with competitions designed to push their skills.

An Air Force test pilot, a Space Force officer, and a Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot were named to the crew of a NASA Mars ...

Air Force basic and technical trainees no longer have any alternative exercises available in the service’s fitness test, as only the three traditional events are now being used in the assessment for ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has formally begun operations with the Embraer A-29C Super Tucano turboprop, which is being incorporated into the service’s test pilot programme at Edwards AFB in California.

The final test example of Boeing’s new T-7A Red Hawk trainer jet has completed its first flight with a US Air Force (USAF) pilot. Test pilot Lieutenant Colonel Shay Brantigan took the controls of the ...

For the first time, U.S. fighter pilots have taken directions from an artificial intelligence system during a live test, marking ...