Some 400 airmen, soldiers, sailors, marines, and Canadian airmen are conducting joint training in air-to-ground support at Avon Park, Fla., for Atlantic Strike V. The US Central Command Air Forces semi-annual training event, which ends today, provides an opportunity to integrate USAF’s Remotely Operated Video Enhancement Receiver (ROVER) data into operations conducted by USAF joint terminal attack controllers and Army joint fires observer teams, reports SSgt. Amanda Savannah. Some of the training takes place in Avon Park to provide an urban setting, but the director of Atlantic Strike V, Maj. Raymond Brennan said that activities would be “transparent to most citizens.”
B-21 Temporary Shelters Could Also Shelter B-2s
March 5, 2021
The Air Force's experimental runway shelter for the new B-21 bomber is large enough to cover it or the B-2, and therefore reveals no information about the dimensions of the new aircraft. Two such shelters will be evaluated, but the maker of the second version hasn't been chosen, yet.