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8 EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, ALASKA – Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 174th Attack Wing spent two weeks in Alaska participating in Northern Edge 21, launching the remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper in the skies among the high-speed performance fighters of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command from May 3-14. The biannual exercise increases combat effectiveness among the various U.S. aircraft in conventional warfare. This is in contrast to years of missions flown in support of c...

White House’s slate of nominees would put familiar faces back in the Pentagon 5 days ago Clockwise: Heidi Shyu, Michael Brown, Christine Wormuth and Frank Kendall. (Spc. Isaac Adams/U.S. Army; U.S. Defense Department; Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images; Tom Pennington/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — After three months of silence on who would make up his administration’s top Pentagon leaders, President Joe Biden announced the names of 17 potential officials in April. Of those, four will be cr...

U.S. MQ-9 Drone gets Deadlier with New Ghost Reaper Pods Our Bureau 862 MQ-9 Reaper with three Ghost Reaper pods awaits takeoff at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, N.Y., April, 14, 2021. The U.S. Air Force’s MQ-9 Reaper drone has received new capabilities including battlefield and airspace communications enhancements as well as target identification tracking and processing. On May 6, the Air Force said the 174th Attack Wing has partnered with multiple Department of Defense contract...

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HANCOCK FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, NY – The 174th Attack Wing has partnered with multiple Department of Defense contractors and academia to lead the effort in establishing new and additional capabilities for the MQ-9 Reaper.According to the Assistant,

Air Force testing new capabilities for MQ-9 drone during exercise By (0) An MQ-9 Reaper with three Ghost Reaper pods attached awaits takeoff at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, N.Y. Photo by Megan Fowler/U.S. Air National Guard May 4 (UPI) -- The 174th Attack Wing is working with multiple Pentagon contractors and academic researchers to establish new capabilities for the MQ-9 Reaper drone aircraft, the Air National Guard announced Tuesday. According to a press release from the...

Editorial Roundup: New York Adirondack Daily Enterprise. April 15, 2021. Editorial: Water is still cold; wear a PFD We have been surprised to see a whole lot of canoes on the tops of cars driving through Saranac Lake. It’s not just us. Erin Hanczyk, spokesperson for Region 5 of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said she’s been surprised to see so many, too. Early to mid April is very early to be out paddling in the Adirondacks. Usually it’s only a handful of hardcores ou...

33 East Amherst, N.Y. — After a year and a half of no large-scale training due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 200 National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from New York and New Jersey trained together to respond to Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear incidents April 16-17. They are members of the FEMA Region II Homeland Response Force, known as the HRF. The team is trained to find and rescue victims and provide security, decontamination, medical treatment and comma...

Military, Hancock were wrong to keep Reaper drone crash a secret (Editorial) Updated 7:30 AM; Today 7:30 AM An MQ-9 Reaper drone operated by the NY Air National Guards 174th Attack Wing is shown after crashing June 25, 2020 at Syracuse Hancock International Airport.U.S. Air Force photo Facebook Share The 174th Attack Wing at Hancock Field routinely flies remote-controlled MQ-9 Reaper drones over our homes, schools, businesses, roads and lakes. When a drone crashes, it’s more than an embarra...

A Reaper drone crashed at Syracuse’s airport. Why wasn’t the public told? Updated 7:44 AM; Today 6:00 AM An MQ-9 Reaper drone operated by the NY Air National Guards 174th Attack Wing is shown after crashing June 25, 2020 at Syracuse Hancock International Airport.U.S. Air Force photo Facebook Share An Air National Guard MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed shortly after takeoff last summer at Syracuse Hancock International Airport, but military officials decided not to inform the public until now. A ...