Operation Atlas Response begins to aid flood victims-an estimated one million people left homeless-in Mozambique. USAF C-5s and C-17s fly supplies 4,600 miles from a base in Germany to southern Africa, where C-130s and MH-53 and HH-60 helicopters distribute the food, water, medicine, and tents.
There is a new entrant in the highly competitive field of collaborative combat aircraft—semi-autonomous drones meant to fly alongside manned combat aircraft. Northrop Grumman unveiled its new Project Talon aircraft to a small group of reporters at the facilities of its subsidiary Scaled Composites.
