US Central Command plans to participate in Exercise Bright Star, the massive war game with Egypt and other coalition nations, for the first time in four years. Bright Start 05/06, set to kick off Saturday and run through Oct. 3, is the 12th in the series.
A new think tank analysis finds a hypothetical blended-wing body tanker could offer twice as much refueling performance as the KC-46A Pegasus and recommends the Air Force buy scores of them, as the service prepares to evaluate a BWB demonstrator next year and must juggle its future tanker plans with…