Afghan airmen have received training for the first time on how they would use signaling equipment to alert help if their aircraft go down. This is part of the broader survival skills that NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan advisors are teaching them. As part of the training, which took place Nov. 3 at the Blackwater Training Range in Kabul, the Afghans shot several different types of signaling flares and learned how to use mirrors and other items to show their locations to rescue aircraft. “Some of these guys have been being advised for four to five years, but they only within the past seven months have gotten equipment,” said MSgt. Jeremy Raymond, an NATC-A/438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group advisor. (Kabul report by MC3 Jared E. Walker)
The Pentagon has concluded a new agreement to buy laser-guidance kits that turn rockets into drone-killing weapons. BAE Systems and the Defense Department announced a framework deal of up to seven years for 25,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System guidance kits annually for the U.S. military.