US Air Force personnel at Bagram AB, Afghanistan, have been training soldiers of the Afghan National Army in the proper techniques to rig supplies for air drops. It was a three-day intensive course for 10 member of ANA’s Central Movement Agency. For some of the Afghan soldiers, it was their first time to work with an aircraft.
A top Pentagon tech official called on industry this week to help the military develop “lighter, more efficient” directed energy weapons designed to go on aircraft and conduct special operations missions or down drones—areas where the Air Force’s directed energy efforts have been quiet as of late.