The Air Force is expanding its interaction with India’s air force. Recently, two US airmen from the 13th Fighter Squadron, Misawa AB, Japan, visited the Indian Air Force, flying in the Russian-made Su-30 fighter, while two Indian Air Force pilots, two air traffic controllers, and two safety officers paid a visit to Misawa. The exchange presages the next Cope India exercise, set for November.
Special-ops aviators, a physicist from the intelligence community, and an enlisted Marine with decades of deployments: U.S. Space Command’s military and civilian leaders who spoke May 7 were as likely to come from strictly space backgrounds as not. These are some of the day’s insights from inside the command, which…