Several Afghans fell to their deaths when the Globemaster III took off, and human remains were found in a wheel well when it landed at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
The Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office has completed its third demonstration to look at capability that could fill identified gaps to defeat the growing drone threat around the world.
To prepare for far more contested airspace, the U.S. Air Force is laying the groundwork for a series of radical transformations in how it approaches air combat that could cost at least tens of billions of dollars over the next two decades.