Boeing took an E-3 AWACS aircraft upgraded with Block40/45 improvements for a successful seven-hour test spin recently, according to an April 12 company release. Boeing calls the upgrade program “the single largest enhancement in the history of the US Air Force E-3 AWACS fleet.”
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…