F-15Es struck enemy combatants and a weapons cache with 500-pound joint direct attack munitions and a 2,000-pound JDAM near Worzhanah Kalay, Afghanistan, on July 11, Air Forces Central said in a release. These strikes were part of the 65 close air support missions flown by coalition aircraft in the Near East nation on that day, An F-15E also dropped a 500-pound JDAM on enemy forces in the vicinity of Gereshk and A-10s fired cannon rounds at enemy units near Nangalam and hit them with general-purpose 500-pound bombs, AFCENT said. In Iraq there were 51 CAS missions, including a B-1B bomber attacking enemy bunkers in the vicinity of Baqubah with 2,000-pound JDAMs.
Recent Russian and Chinese tests of space weapons are a "natural consequence of military behaviors," and the U.S. must now "mitigate this threat," the Space Force's operations chief said. “When you are behind, you look for ways to seek vulnerabilities of your adversary and your competitor so that you can…