A US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle on May 20 dropped 2,000-pound GBU-31 and 500-pound GBU-38 joint direct attack munitions on enemy combatants fighting friendly forces in Asadabad, Afghanistan, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials in a May 21 release from Southwest Asia. And, on the same day, in Lwara, USAF A-10s and F-15Es struck enemy combatants using laser-guided GBU-12 Paveway II and GBU-31 munitions and an unidentified 500-pound bomb. Joint terminal attack controllers deemed the strikes successful.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week released strategies meant to focus the Pentagon’s “alphabet soup” of innovation organizations and proliferate artificial intelligence—moves that experts say could provide the structure needed to make the military’s efforts to integrate and field new technology more effective.
