Six U. S. service members who were killed in a military refueling aircraft crash over Iraq last week have been identified as members of the Ohio Air National Guard and Florida-based crew members.

Video shows B-1 bombers being loaded with Joint Direct Attack Munitions at RAF Fairford in the UK. Reuters Videos taken Wednesday at an airbase in Britain show US Air Force B-1 bombers being loaded with "bunker buster" bombs, a sign the Pentagon may be ready to send the heavy bombers over Iran to strike deeply embedded targets like missile and drone storage facilities.

Without a deeper aircraft reserve, the fleet might have to adopt less aggressive tactics to limit losses. The US Air Force will need a lot more next-generation fighter jets and bombers to fight a war against China, former pilots and airpower experts argued in a new report.