Gen. Michael Moseley, Air Force Chief of Staff, confirmed that the C-5 transport aircraft that crashed near Dover AFB, Del., Monday, shortly after going airborne, experienced an engine problem—prompting the crew to bring the giant airlifter back around to Dover and was within a “reasonable distance” of the runway before it crashed. Queried on Tuesday during a Capitol Hill seminar, Moseley noted that the C-5 was not an older A model but rather a B model that already had undergone Avionics Modernization Program improvements. He did not think that age would be a factor. However, he said, “There are some things we have to go look at, and some things we have to go ask some folks.”
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
