SrA. Daniel R. Sanchez, a combat controller assigned to the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla., has died while conducting combat operations in Afghanistan, the Defense Department has announced. He was 23. A native of El Paso, Tex., Sanchez died on Sept. 16 in Oruzgan province, according to DOD’s release.
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.