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.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.