Cubic Corp. will be working under a $15.6 million contract to provide its new P5 Combat Training System to restore live instrumented air combat training at the Air National Guard’s Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center. Hurricane Katrina destroyed the center’s live instrumentation capability at the center, which is used by ANG, Air Force Reserve, active Air Force, and Navy aircrews. Air Armament Center at Eglin AFB, Fla., which oversees P5CTS deployment for all the services, has slated delivery and operational capability at Gulfport early next year.
A-10 Thunderbolt II attack planes in the Middle East are flying with fresh modifications as the Air Force looks to make the plane more versatile amid America’s ongoing blockade of Iranian ports and a tenuous ceasefire in the U.S. air war against Iran.