The Air Force has decided to trim the size of the fighter training range it had proposed for eastern Nevada airspace, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It is to be used primarily by F-16s flying out of Hill AFB, Utah. Nevada officials worried the Air Force initiative would crimp local economic plans.
The KC-46A Pegasus aerial tanker still isn’t meeting required mission capable rates, mostly due to parts shortages, and other significant problems are still being remedied, the Pentagon’s test director said in a new report.