The 305th 
Air Mobility Wing at JB McGuire, N.J., now has its full complement of C-17 transports in place. Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford, the top uniformed official in USAF’s acquisition shop, delivered the new-build C-17 from Boeing’s production plant in Long Beach, Calif., to the East Coast base on July 30. The new aircraft—the 200th C-17 Boeing has built for the Air Force—brings the wing’s total to 16. “This C-17 will help exponentially,” said Lt. Col. Bryan Wood, 6th Airlift Squadron operations officer, adding, “It will immediately help provide combat airlift.” The wing’s C-17s have already supported frequent missions to Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to the 16 C-17s under USAF’s existing 223-aircraft program of record, the 305th AMW also operates 32 KC-10 tankers. (McGuire report by SrA. David Carbajal)
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.