Airstrikes supporting coalition ground forces south of Baqubah on the Diyala River in Iraq killed 14 terrorists and destroyed a safe house used by foreign fighters on Jan. 27, according to a Multinational Force-Iraq release. Paring that with US Central Command Air Forces coverage of Jan. 27 coalition air sorties near Baghdad, Tikrit, and Diyala, it would appear that USAF F-16s conducted this particular air strike.
Facing competition from fast-growing startups, Lockheed Martin is speeding up production of an “affordable, scalable” hypersonic glide body, dubbed the Next Generation Glide Body, the firm said in a June 24 release.