USAF officials plan to return the airport terminal and air traffic tower at Kandahar AB, Afghanistan, back to Afghan control. But before they do, airmen at the facility have been installing more than a mile of copper and fiber optic cabling to keep communications lines open. Handling the need-this-done-now work are combat communicators of the 451st Air Expeditionary Group. It is not their stock in trade, but the job they did, say officials, saved a special team from Qatar about five days work. The combat communicators, who come from various active and reserve units, also expanded 10-fold the bandwidth capability for the facility by installing new network switches.
Details Murky as ARRW Falls Short in Second Test
March 24, 2023
The second all-up flight of the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon on March 13 fell short of a fully successful test, but the Air Force isn’t saying what went wrong with the Lockheed Martin-built hypersonic missile. The defense giant's Missiles and Fire Control division recently said the ARRW is "ready…