Air Force Reserve Command’s 419th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, has sent off its last Block 30 F-16 fighters to other Reserve and Air National Guard units around the country. As we reported in April, the 419th is joining forces with the other F-16 unit at Hill, Air Combat Command’s 388th FW, which will own the aircraft both units fly and maintain. SrA. Daniel Durbin reports that the 388th is getting additional Block 40 Vipers to increase its fleet to more than 85 aircraft.
In AI Experiment, UK and US Simulate Adjacent Operations
Oct. 20, 2021
Held an ocean apart but simulating adjacent military forces, a virtual demonstration Oct. 18 gave the U.K. and U.S. militaries cause to project optimism over someday jointly adopting artificial intelligence “that can learn in the field.” The test represented “just the first step” on the way to an “experimental trial…