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An air force, also known in some countries as an air army or historically an army air corps, is in the broadest sense, the national military that primarily conducts aerial warfare.

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  • ICBMs Without Nukes: USA's Best New Weapon?

    …willing to pay a great deal," says Mark Lewis, the Air Force 's top technology official until his retirement this ……fly more than 15 times the speed of sound. The U.S. Air Force , Army, and Navy have all proposed different versions …

    11/04/2009Blogs
  • Obama to Sign Law Protecting Troops from Toxic Fumes

    …explain the arm). Fumes containing carcinogenic dioxins, heavy metals, and particulates, according to an Army– Air Force risk assessment, waft freely across bases. Burke's plaintiffs mostly suffer from chronic or unusual medical complications …

    10/28/2009Blogs
  • Magnificence Democratized

    …democratically distributed. Soon the plinth, now again empty, will hold, for a while, a statue of Sir Keith Park, a Royal Air Force hero of the Battle of Britain. He helped save democracy, of which the plinthers illustrated one current understanding …

    10/24/2009George F. Will
  • Plug-and-Play Satellites

    …the threat posed by the advancing space programs of China, Iran, and North Korea. Peter Wegner, head of the U.S. Air Force Operationally Responsive Space Office, says the goal of his lab is to make satellites have "the same kind of plug …

    10/16/2009Tech and Business
  • Letters: October 12, 2009

    …Command. In fact, Gen. George Kenney served as its first commander, for two years, and was then succeeded by LeMay, who transformed SAC into the organization that dominated the Air Force for -decades. NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.

    10/10/2009Letters to the Editor

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