The first of 80 C-5A Galaxy transports rolls out at Lockheed’s Marietta, Ga., facility, during a ceremony with President Lyndon B. Johnson in attendance.
A top Pentagon tech official called on industry this week to help the military develop “lighter, more efficient” directed energy weapons designed to go on aircraft and conduct special operations missions or down drones—areas where the Air Force’s directed energy efforts have been quiet as of late.