The 314th Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, Ark., has received its fifth new C-130J, and officials say the wing will get another two this month—for a total of seven. Lt. Gen. Dennis Larsen, Air Education and Training Command vice commander, says the J model tactical airlifter—the newest version of the long-running Lockheed Martin Hercules line—is “the most requested aircraft in the AOR [Southwest Asia].”
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.