US Air Force officials are working with counterparts in Singapore, who want to bring up to 10 F-15s of the Singapore Air Force to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to establish a training squadron. Any such addition to a US base requires an environmental impact study, which Maj. Damien Pickart, Mountain Home public affairs chief, says should be complete in March. Mountain Home is shedding its F-16s and F-15Cs and picking up F-15Es from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, courtesy of BRAC 2005.
As the list of countries developing both kinetic and non-kinetic space weapons grows, more nations are investing in “bodyguard” capabilities designed to protect and respond to threats against sovereign space assets, according to a new report.
