The Air Force has contracted with Boeing to deliver 75 Combat Track II flight kits that Air Mobility Command and the Air National Guard will use to beef up the threat monitoring capability of KC-135 tanker aircraft. USAF already has fielded the system on B-1B, B-52, C-17, and C-130 aircraft. This contract is worth $5.6 million.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III chaired a China-focused military briefing Oct. 27, part of a biweekly series of briefings with senior military commanders about China’s growing threat in the wake of an orbital hypersonic weapon test that elicited public worries from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “What we…