US Transportation Command boss, Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, on a his first visit to the Air Mobility Warfare Center at Ft. Dix, N.J., offered his view of the center’s new Joint Precision Airdrop System, saying it would make both troops on the ground and aircraft less vulnerable. (JPADS had a real-world test in August and could be fielded early next year.) He added: “At the moment, we’re seeing accuracy within 150 to 200 meters; in the end we’ll see less than a hundred meters. For an old guy who started out doing this over 30 years ago, that’s pretty remarkable.”
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…
