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ANG testing C-130H precision airdrop using LITENING pod

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The Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center C-130 Hercules Detachment was at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to test the LITENING targeting pod.

A LITENING targeting pod hangs from a C-130 Hercules at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, April 8, 2021. The Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center C-130 Hercules Test Detachment from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, worked closely with the 563rd Rescue Group in order to perform operational tests on this high-resolution, multi-sensor targeting system. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Blake Gonzales)

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Hawgsmoke is back this year

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After being postponed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hawgsmoke biennial aerial competition for the A-10 community is back this year.

An A-10 Thunderbolt II fires the GAU-8 Avenger 30mm gun at a target at the Grayling Air Gunnery Range during Northern Strike 2016, Aug. 10, 2016. Northern Strike 16 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting approximately 5,000 Army, Air Force, Marine, and Special Forces service members from 20 states and three coalition countries during the first three weeks of August 2016 at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, both located in northern Michigan. The exercise strives to provide accessible, readiness-building opportunities for military units from all service branches to achieve and sustain proficiency in conducting mission command, air, sea, and ground maneuver integration, and the synchronization of fires in a joint, multinational, decisive action environment. (Michigan National Guard photo by Master Sgt. David Kujawa/Released)

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USAF finally defeats China in a war game and it borrowed a concept proposed by RAND

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The U.S. Air Force has finally figured out how to defeat a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in a massive war game last year. One of the strategy it used was to operate a large network of low-cost drones flying over the Taiwan Strait to sense and sometimes defeat small Chinese ships.

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