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Air Force Warns Airmen Against Using CBD Products

Nov. 19, 2019 | By Brian W. Everstine
The Air Force is warning its airmen not to join in on the CBD craze, saying the popular cannabis-based products can cause them to test positive for marijuana. Cannabidiol—an extract from cannabis that does not include the psychoactive THC component of marijuana—has emerged as a ...

How AFSOC Plans to Use Its Light Attack Aircraft

Nov. 18, 2019 | By Brian W. Everstine
Air Force Special Operations Command plans to use its small buy of A-29 Super Tucano aircraft, under the service’s light attack experiment, to bolster its air advisers’ ability to train and, in the long term, improve the armed overwatch capability it can provide to other ...

Hill Unveils New Runway for F-35 Operations

Nov. 15, 2019 | By Brian W. Everstine
The Air Force’s biggest F-35 operating base recently unveiled its new $45 million runway, bringing to a close a nine-month project that sent the base’s F-35s to other locations across the world. While construction was underway, Hill sent its F-35s to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, ...

Lockheed Completes First ATHENA Laser Demo for USAF

Nov. 8, 2019 | By Rachel S. Cohen
Lockheed Martin for the first time demonstrated a high-energy laser weapon’s ability to take out multiple small drones for the Air Force at the Army-hosted Maneuver and Fires Integrated Experiment last month. The Advanced Test High Energy Asset, or ATHENA system, shot down multiple fixed-wing ...