The Pentagon’s new unmanned aircraft systems strategy paper states that its overarching goal is to provide a guide for “logical, systematic migration” of missions to unmanned systems—aircraft or other. To ensure the services go along, DOD has set out nine broad goals, all of which have multiple service involvement.
Air Force depots are not typically meant for quick repair jobs, but during Operation Epic Fury, the service moved some of its stateside heavy maintenance capability forward to fix battle-damaged aircraft closer to the fight.
