The 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron at Tyndall AFB, Fla., once again has hosted fighter units testing their combat capability. F-15s and F-16s from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, traveled to Tyndall to practice dissimilar air combat tactics and fire live weapons during a Combat Archer exercise, “the only cradle-to-grave fighter weapon system evaluation,” says Lt. Col. Terry Scott, 83rd FWS commander. The Tyndall unit hosts different units from the Air Force and other services or nations almost every two weeks. The Mountain Home fighters also flew a Combat Banner mission, in which the pilots shoot at a banner extended from a Learjet via a 2,000-foot cable.
After years of describing to lawmakers and Pentagon leaders the nature of that threat and the key role spacepower plays in deterring conflict in the domain and enabling the rest of the joint force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters during AFA’s Warfare Symposium here that the message appears to…