Air Combat Command plays host next week at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., to this year’s iteration of Angel Thunder, the worlds’ largest multinational personnel recovery exercise. It runs April 12-23. In addition to Air Force rescue teams and recovery aircraft, personnel and platforms from across the US military and other federal agencies will participate, as will those of the armed forces of Brazil, Britain, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. (Langley release)
A recent Air Force contract to buy up to $50 million worth of small drones from Anduril Industries may soon allow the service’s special operations command to transform its MQ-9 Reapers into drone-launching motherships.
