Civil Air Patrol’s next national commander, Maj. Gen.-Select Mark Smith, has chosen Great Lakes Region Commander Col. Edward Phelka as his national vice commander. The announcement was made Tuesday after Phelka was approved by the organization’s Board of Governors.
Closed To Within 200 Feet Lateral Separation From An F/A-18 Hornet
While operating in international airspace in the central Persian Gulf, an F/A-18E Super Hornet with Strike Fighter Squadron 147, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, had an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with an Iranian QOM-1 unmanned aerial vehicle today, U.S. Central Command officials said.
Space is a "warfighting domain just like air, land and sea", according to Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command. Gen. Raymond made the declaration August 8 at the annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, AL.
UAVs May Be Disabled Or Destroyed If They Are Flown Over Military Bases
The increased use of commercial and privately owned small unmanned aircraft systems has raised Defense Department concerns for the safety and security of its installations, its aviation and its people, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters Monday.
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