Two Peruvian fighters attack and heavily damage an unarmed USAF C-130 flying in international airspace off Peru. For making a safe emergency landing, the C-130 crew receives the 1992 Mackay Trophy.
The future U.S. bomber force could provide a way for the Pentagon to simultaneously deter conflict with peer adversaries in two geographically disparate theaters, said Mark Gunzinger, the director of future concepts and capability assessments at AFA's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, during a March 21 event. But doing so…