Wall Street Journal
• James T Areddy
Air Force crews are trained to eat insects, self-treat wounds and practice evasion and capture-resistance techniques before they ever fly combat missions. The regimen, designed to prepare personnel for survival behind enemy lines, emphasizes practical skills operators may need if isolated following a shootdown or other hostile event.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: U.S. forces have rescued the second crew member of adowned F-15E Strike Eagle in southwestern Iran, ending a two-day search operation after the aircraft was.
The Aviationist
Air & Space Forces Mag
FlightGlobal
• Stephen Trimble
By FlightGlobal: In 1976, Hughes Aircraft rolled out a new product called the Defender – an export version of the US Army’s OH-6 Cayuse. It quickly attracted orders from a variety of countries – including Iraq, Israel, South Korea and the Philippines – in the market for a gunship helicopter in a class below the Bell Helicopter AH-1….
Wall Street Journal
By Wall Street Journal: U.S. search and rescue aircraft, including an HC-130 airplane and two HH-60 helicopters, were filmed flying over Iran after a U.S. jet fighter was downed in the country in footage circulated by Iranian state media and verified by Storyful.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: Space Force budget would more than double in Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense plan.
The Intercept
• Nick Turse
By The Intercept: Around the same time as Iran shot down the F-15, another U.S. military plane crashed near the Strait of Hormuz.
Wall Street Journal
• Shelby Holliday
By Wall Street Journal: The loss of the U.S.'s first jet fighter to enemy fire in Operation Epic Fury comes after 13,000 combat flights and five weeks of a persistent air campaign.
Air & Space Forces Mag
AINonline
• Charlotte Bailey
By AINonline: Inaugural Gripen F-39E to be followed by 14 more domestically assembled aircraft.
