Eleven people who survived a plane crash about 50 miles off the Florida coast were on a life raft for hours and had no idea anyone was coming to save them when rescue crews from the U.S. military arrived.

What started as a routine training mission quickly became a real recuse operation when the 920th Rescue Wing learned of a possible downed aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean.

The U.S. Air Force has completed modifications to a Boeing 747 jet donated by Qatar for temporary use as Air Force One.

Afghanistan’s foreign ministry says Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort and are stuck in Qatar can safely return home.

The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country.

The U.S. military is identifying the six service members who died last week when a KC-135 refueling plane crashed in western Iraq.

The six U.S. service members who died in the crash of a U.S. military refueling aircraft included an Alabama father who had just been promoted and deployed.

The U.S. military says a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members.

An American military refueling plane taking part in the operation against Iran has crashed in Iraq and rescue efforts are underway.

A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria has resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader.

The U.S. has launched another round of strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria.

Jordan confirms its air force joined U.S. strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria.

A West Virginia National Guard member who was shot last month in the nation’s capital is being transitioned from hospital acute care to in-patient rehabilitation.

A private funeral has been held for a West Virginia National Guard member who was shot to death last month in the nation’s capital.

West Virginia's governor says a National Guard member from his state who was shot last week in an attack in Washington, D.C., remains in serious condition but has shown some positive signs.

A private company managing housing near Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida has told residents to remove Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving.

The U.S. military has flown a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela.

The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea.

The U.S. military says fighter jets have intercepted Russian warplanes near Alaska again.

The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport.

The Air Force’s top uniformed officer is set to retire early in the most recent shake-up of military leadership during President Donald Trump’s second term.

The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.

A devastating digital heist has left U.S. Air Force veteran Brandon Paige without his life savings.

The Air Dot Show Tour will return to Cocoa Beach this weekend, giving residents the chance to watch U.S. Air Force flight teams execute aerial acts over the Atlantic coastline, according to organizers.

A Palestinian human rights group lost a legal challenge against the U.K. government over supplying Israel with parts for F-35 fighter jets.

In inserting itself into Israel’s war against Iran, Washington unleashed its massive “bunker-buster” bombs on Iran’s Fordo fuel enrichment plant.

North Korea has threatened retaliation after the U.S. flew long-range bombers over South Korea during training with its forces.

With the Trump administration expected to reverse a controversial 2023 decision on the permanent location of U.S. Space Command, a review by the Defense Department inspector general could not determine why Colorado was chosen over Alabama.

The United States has flown long-range B-1B bombers in a show of force against North Korea, days after the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to resist a U.S.-led push to eliminate the North’s nuclear program.

A U.S. passenger flight preparing to leave the nation’s capital and an incoming military jet received instructions to divert and prevent a possible collision.

Boeing will build the Air Force's future fighter jet.

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content.

Orlando International Airport is paying tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of Black pilots in the U.S. Air Force, with a new exhibit.

President-elect Donald Trump has named Troy Meink, a former Air Force KC-135 tanker navigator and former deputy of the National Reconnaissance Office, as his choice to serve as the top civilian leader for the Air Force.

The family of a Air Force contractor who was killed when she walked into a rotating drone propeller has filed a lawsuit against her company, Sumaria Systems LLC, claiming her trainer subjected her to gender and racial discrimination that ultimately put her in harm's way and led to her death.

South Korea says the U.S. has flown a long-range bomber in a trilateral drill with South Korea and Japan in response to North Korea’s recent test-firing of a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland.

According to a Pentagon audit, Boeing has overcharged the Air Force on spare parts for a major cargo plane, including marking up the price of simple lavatory soap dispensers by 8,000%.

The University of Central Florida launched the Center of Excellence in Hypersonic and Space Propulsion, also known as the HyperSpace Center for short.

The Pentagon says the United States will send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel along with troops needed to operate it.

Military officials have released new video of a startling interaction between a Russian jet flying near Alaska and a U.S. plane sent to intercept it.

The family of a young Black U.S. Air Force airman gunned down by a Florida sheriff’s deputy is represented by a prominent civil rights lawyer.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tristen Wright, 28, of Palm Bay, died Aug. 15, 2024, in a non-combat related incident at an undisclosed location, according to the Department of Defense.

World UFO Day is being celebrated amid a surge in sightings and government studies on unidentified flying objects.

A Stockholm-based watchdog says the world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on nuclear deterrence in 2023.

South Korea says the U.S. has flown a long-range B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula for its first precision-guided bombing drill with the South in seven years.

The Air Force says an instructor pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the turboprop aircraft was still on the ground at a Texas military base.

The family of the U.S. Air Force airman shot and killed by a deputy in Florida says he was devoted to improving the lives of a younger sister, brother and his mom.

The family of a Black U.S. Air Force airman fatally shot by Florida sheriff's deputies at his off-base apartment will join civil rights attorney Ben Crump for a news conference calling for transparency in the investigation.

The U.S. Air Force says a 23-year-old airman supporting its Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida, was shot and killed during an incident involving the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Two Associated Press journalists aboard an American aid flight to Gaza observed the wreckage to the strip's north as the plane delivered much-needed food aid to Palestinians below.

The United States has circulated the final draft of a United Nations Security Council resolution that would support international efforts to establish “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war.

The Air Force is reporting the first data on cancer diagnoses among troops who worked with nuclear missiles.

U.S. senators have declined to block the sale of F-16s to Turkey.

An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force has died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.

An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force was critically injured after setting himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.

The Czech Republic’s government has signed an agreement with the United States to acquire 24 U.S. F-35 fighter jets as part of a deal worth about $6.6 billion, the biggest single purchase for the Czech military.

The U.S. Air Force plans to expand its search for grave sites in a former Black cemetery at a base in Florida after discovering 121 potential sites already.

Two U.S. fighter jets flew over Bosnia in a demonstration of support for the Balkan country’s integrity in the face of increasingly secessionist policies of the Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik.

The U.S. military has launched its secret space plane on another mission that's expected to last at least a couple of years.

North Korean state media is reporting that leader Kim Jong Un says his country has a policy of not hesitating to launch a nuclear strike on its rivals if provoked, as he praised troops involved in its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test.

A U.S. Air Force pilot has safely ejected before his F-16 fighter jet crashed into the sea off South Korea’s southwestern coast.

A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel.

News 6 has learned a U.S. Air Force sergeant who enlisted out of Oviedo more than a decade ago was among the service members killed in a military aircraft last week in Japan.

The Air Force is expanding its study of whether service members who worked with nuclear missiles have had unusually high rates of cancer after a preliminary review determined that a deeper examination is needed.

The Japanese coast guard says a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed during a training mission off of the country’s southern coast, killing at least one of the eight crew members.

After arriving in Florida, Tanzilla returned to service, this time in a much different way. Listen to her describe her new position and how she finds herself loving every second of it.

As Israel unleashes one of the most-intense aerial bombing campaigns the Middle East has ever seen, leaders from the world’s top air forces are meeting in the United Arab Emirates to talk about almost anything that isn’t an airstrike.

Michael graduated high school confused and not sure of which direction he wanted to go. After a year of weighing options he decided to go into the U.S. Air Force as an in-flight refueler on planes.

Brenda joined the U.S. Air Force in 1992 and served 9 years. Service had always been in her family and Betsy found her passion while in Air Force ROTC all throughout High School and College.

Bob entered the U.S. Air Force in 1968 and left the Air Force as a sergeant. Listen to Bob’s story as he walks us through decisions he made after graduating high school and why he chose this branch of the military.

The Air Force is asking Congress to restrict further construction of the towering wind turbines that have edged closer to its nuclear missile sites in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado.

A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of an American B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea, nearly causing an accident, the U.S. military says, underscoring the potential for a mishap as both countries vie for influence in the region.

The Associated Press has been granted rare access to U.S. nuclear missile bases and weapons production facilities to see how technicians keep the arsenal working while starting the government’s biggest nuclear overhaul since the Cold War.

The Pentagon says it has not restarted counterterrorism operations in Niger, a day after the head of U.S. airpower for Europe and Africa said those flights had resumed.

The U.S. could have the first Ukrainian pilots trained on F-16 fighter jets before the end of the year, though it will be longer than that before they are flying combat missions.

The U.S. is joining NATO allies in hosting training for Ukrainian pilots on U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, beginning at an Arizona Air National Guard base in October.

Dozens gathered on Tuesday to welcome U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Matthew Cable and his wife Ensley to their new neighborhood in DeBary.

The U.S. Air Force is throwing its support behind a program to develop a sleek, futuristic-looking jet that could provide greater range and efficiency for military tankers and cargo planes.

The Air Force has detected unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen in samples taken at a Montana missile base where a striking number of men and women have reported cancer diagnoses.

David Grusch, a former member of a U.S. Air Force panel on unidentified anomalous phenomena, said the U.S. government has been concealing a defense program that collects and reverse engineers UFOs.

A top Pentagon official has attacked this week’s widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs.

The U.S. says a Russian fighter jet fired flares and struck another American drone over Syrian airspace on Wednesday, continuing a string of harassing maneuvers that have ratcheted up tensions between the global powers.

U.S. officials say that a Russian fighter jet flew very close to a U.S. surveillance aircraft over Syria, forcing it to go through the turbulent wake and putting the lives of the four American crew members in danger.

China is accusing the United States of militarizing outer space, a day after it protested the passage of a Navy P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft through the Taiwan Strait.

The Defense Department says a U.S. drone strike has killed an Islamic State group leader in Syria.

The U.S. Air Force says Russian fighter jets flew dangerously close to U.S. drone aircraft over Syria again Thursday, setting off flares and forcing the MQ-9 Reapers to take evasive maneuvers.

In honor of Independence Day, guests visiting the Magic Kingdom got the chance to see U.S. Air Force flyover Cinderella Castle.

Congressional delegates from Ohio are promoting Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton as the location for the new Space Command headquarters.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that European allies are developing a coordinated program to train Ukrainian forces on the F-16 fighter jet.

President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that he is tapping Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., a history-making fighter pilot with deep knowledge of China, to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

President Joe Biden’s decision to allow allies to train Ukrainian forces on how to operate F-16 fighter jets — and eventually to provide the aircraft themselves — seemed like an abrupt change in position but was in fact one that came after months of internal debate and quiet talks with allies.

The Air Force says a review of a Montana nuclear missile base where an unusual number of troops have reported being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma has found no immediate risk factors.

A Sweden-based watchdog says global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion.

President Joe Biden is sticking with a blue-and-white color scheme for the exterior of the new version of Air Force One.

The sister of North Korea’s leader is warning that her country is ready to take “quick, overwhelming action” against the United States and South Korea.

The Air Force says six officers who were in charge of caring for the infrastructure, fuel and logistics support for a North Dakota nuclear missile base were relieved of command due to a loss of confidence in their ability to carry out their responsibilities.

Boeing says it expects to end production of the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet in late 2025.

A U-2 pilot flying high above the Chinese spy balloon took a close-up photo of the large white orb just a day before the Air Force shot the balloon down off the coast of South Carolina.

The Air Force is expanding its review of cancers among its nuclear missile corps.

North Korea has threatened to take “unprecedently” strong action against its rivals over a series of military drills planned between South Korea and the United States.