F-15Es struck enemy combatants and a weapons cache with 500-pound joint direct attack munitions and a 2,000-pound JDAM near Worzhanah Kalay, Afghanistan, on July 11, Air Forces Central said in a release. These strikes were part of the 65 close air support missions flown by coalition aircraft in the Near East nation on that day, An F-15E also dropped a 500-pound JDAM on enemy forces in the vicinity of Gereshk and A-10s fired cannon rounds at enemy units near Nangalam and hit them with general-purpose 500-pound bombs, AFCENT said. In Iraq there were 51 CAS missions, including a B-1B bomber attacking enemy bunkers in the vicinity of Baqubah with 2,000-pound JDAMs.
When the Space Force discusses the cyber threats faced by the service or the commercial satellite providers it uses, it typically frames the issue as a nation-state one. But for cyber defenders in the commercial space sector responsible for day-to-day operations, the reality is rather different: Like other providers of…
