Eight F-16s and more than 200 airmen from the Colorado Air National Guard recently deployed to Hungary for training and support of Operation Atlantic Resolve. The airmen from the 140th Wing at Buckley AFB are conducting training and familiarization events with the Hungarian air force at Papa AB, according to an Air National Guard release. The aircraft will also conduct training with Hungarian and Slovenian joint terminal attack controllers, the release states.
The Defense Innovation Unit is gearing up for the first flight of its commercially developed hypersonic testbed as soon as the end of February—part of a larger project to quickly increase the cadence of the Pentagon’s hypersonic flight testing and field advanced, high-speed systems and components at scale.
