As the Air Force prepares for a possible war with China, it may not have enough rescue aircraft to pick up downed aviators.

The Air Force Studies Board organized a 3-day workshop on combat search and rescue in contested environments to discuss and illustrate the challenges presented by the emergence of Anti-Access/Area ...

STRATFORD, Conn. — The U.S. Air Force is expected to issue a draft request for proposals for its new Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) as soon as next week, according to industry officials. This will ...

A new era has begun for the 106th Rescue Wing: The HH-60W Jolly Green II search and rescue helicopter has arrived. The Wing accepted its first Jolly Green landed last week at the Francis S. Gabreski ...

A Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin team have been poised to win a contract from the Air Force for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program. Sequestration has put the U.S. Air Force's combat search-and-rescue ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has logged its final active service flight with the venerable Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopter. The service’s 56th Rescue Squadron completed ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The 920th Rescue Wing, an Air Force Reserve Command combat search and rescue unit, airlifted a “critical patient” and his mother while they were 350 miles off the coast of the U.S ...

A U.S. Air Force HC-130P Combat King aircrew from the 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron and pararescuemen from the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron conduct personnel recovery training at an ...

The U.S. Air Force was deployed to airlift an ill passenger from a Carnival Cruise Line ship in the middle of the Atlantic. The Carnival Venezia was about 350 nautical miles from the U.S., on the way ...