In the Four-Star Forum Wednesday afternoon at AFA’s Air & Space Conference, as the assembled generals were talking about what they’ve had to do to make ends meet—while refusing to cut combat readiness accounts—Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz offered a reminder: “People are dying; as long as people are dying, we’ll do what’s necessary, and we’ll do it well.”
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.