When the Air Force Uniform board meets Oct. 20-21 for the first time since June 2003, members plan to address several issues, among them: the new battle dress uniform—the subdued blue one—and the physical training uniform. We can’t wait to find out if the new subdued blue BDU survives. The first blue version was a bomb.
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.
