The Air National Guard’s 143rd Airlift Wing at Quonset State Airport in Rhode Island has received its seventh new C-130J Super Hercules, according to Lockheed Martin. ANG Director Lt. Gen. Craig McKinley accepted the aircraft for the 143rd AW, which will receive its eighth and final new J Model later this year.
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.
