The new F-22 Maintenance Training Facility at Sheppard AFB, Tex. is now officially open, reports the Times Record News. As we reported earlier, the new facility will take its first trainee beginning in January. The state-of-the-art center includes F-22 cockpit and forward fuselage and seat and canopy maintenance training simulators designed by the DME Corp.
The Pentagon has concluded a new agreement to buy laser-guidance kits that turn rockets into drone-killing weapons. BAE Systems and the Defense Department announced a framework deal of up to seven years for 25,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System guidance kits annually for the U.S. military.