The innovative airmen of the 435th Munitions Squadron at Ramstein AB, Germany, are re-organizing to ensure their dwindling numbers are fully trained to maintain a wider assortment of weapons. The unit’s airmen earlier this year saved the Air Force mega-bucks by undertaking the transfer of motors from old advanced-medium-range air-to-air missiles themselves. Now the unit has lost half its workforce, so the remaining airmen pioneered the new unit structure, according to a 43rd MUNS release.
U.S. Northern Command and multiple research organizations just wrapped up a joint, three-year experiment to test new radar technology that could enable the Northern Warning System to detect incoming threats at longer ranges across Alaska and northern Canada.