The Air Force has lost another unmanned aerial vehicle with the crash Monday of an MQ-1 Predator in Iraq. US Central Command Air Forces officials released only the time—about 1:30 p.m. local time—and approximate location—near al Muqdadiya. The Air Force will form an accident investigation board.
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.