The Pentagon announced April 11 that A1C Jacob I. Ramsey, 20, of Hesperia, Calif., died April 10 of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ramsey had deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan from the 712th Air Support Operations Squadron at Ft. Hood, Tex. The release stated, “The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.”
The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force has unveiled a new electronic warfare drone designed to fly with fighter jets into contested airspace, including alongside its fleet of F-35s. RAF says it plans to develop models that draw on the U.S. Air Force’s approach of mating unmanned systems with crewed platforms.