Air Force Reserve Command’s 940th Air Refueling Wing at Beale AFB, Calif., last week sent off the first two of its eight KC-35 tankers mandated for transfer under BRAC 2005. AFRC’s 916th ARW at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., is the lucky recipient. The rest of the Reserve tankers at Beale will leave for North Carolina by the end of September. The 940th ARW is embarking on new missions in command and control and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, including support for the Global Hawk fleet at Beale. (Beale report)
Pentagon Task Force, FAA to Test Counter-Drone Laser
March 7, 2026
The Pentagon’s counter-drone task force announced it would conduct a high-energy laser test with the Federal Aviation Administration less than a month after the use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border prompted the FAA to shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas.