USAF accepts its first production F-35A strike fighter, AF-7, the second production version off the Lockheed Martin assembly line, but the first to complete acceptance testing.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.