USAF and friends have struck numerous targets in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past few days. US Central Air Forces says USAF A-10s used their rockets to mark enemy locations, then strafed them to aid coalition troops near Deh Rawood. During the same Dec. 6 action, RAF GR7s launched general-purpose bombs and rockets. Near Qalat in Afghanistan on Dec. 5, USAF A-10s marked targets, then struck enemy forces with their guns and 500-pound bombs. In Iraq on Dec. 3, USAF F-15s and F-16s struck targets near Balad. The F-15s strafed the enemy and F-16s dropped precision-guided munitions.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
