The Air Force’s Force Protection Battlelab has created a prototype device—the simplified automated ventilator, or SAVe—to aid medics in the field. A medic in the field can quickly set up the portable battery-powered ventilator to help one wounded troop breathe, while the medic tends to another life-threatening injury. The new battlefield medical device is just one of several the battlelab, based at Lackland AFB, Tex., has produced or has in the works. Read more here.
The Air Force conducted its first test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in 2026 on March 3, launching an unarmed missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., equipped with two test reentry vehicles at 11:01 p.m. Pacific Time.