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Members of U.S. Pacific Air Forces and Japan Air Self-Defense Force visited the 552nd Air Control Networks Squadron to build cyber-defense capacity, April 4-10. The 552nd ACNS is the Air Force lead Mission Defense Team for tactical command and control systems, including the Control and Reporting Centers. They are the only MDT in the Air Force to perform missions inside the skin of an aircraft, defending against adversaries in cyberspace. “The knowledge and experience gained by visiting the 552nd ACNS will help shape the overall cyber defense strategy for the Japanese Weapon Systems,” sa...

Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs / Published April 23, 2021 Senior Airman Gabriel Coleman, 552 Air Control Networks Squadron, and Master Sgt. Christopher Bailey, Pacific Air Command A3/6, explain the capabilities of a deployable cyber defense weapon system, Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter, to Lt. Col. Akio Ohigashi and Capt. Shumpei Kawano from the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force. The system is used by the 552 ACNS Mission Defense Team to defend the 552nd Air Control Wing's Control & Reporting Centers and E-3 fleet and ground systems from cyber threats. (Air Force...

INTO THE THIN AIR: F-104 Starfighter World Altitude Records INTO THE THIN AIR: F-104 Starfighter World Altitude Records By Stephen Chapis When Lockheed Skunk Works unveiled the XF-104 in 1954, it possessed out of this world looks and performance. In 1958, just months after the F-104A entered service with Air Defense Command (ADC) Lockheed and the Pentagon decided to prove the latter by making a series a series of world record flights. In this article, the first of two-parts, we will hear first-hand accounts from three pilots that flew their Starfighters into the deadly upper reaches of the st...

Belarusian, Russian air force units to begin joint standby alert at Belarusian airfield in summer Photo courtesy of TASS MINSK, 15 April (BelTA) – Belarusian and Russian army units will be deployed at a Belarusian airfield in summer in order to carry out air defense duties together. Chief of the Air Force and Air Defense Command of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Major-General Igor Golub made the statement within the framework of the CIS Air Defense Coordinating Committee, TASS reports. Igor Golub remarked that in late 2020 the Belarusian and Russian defense ministers authorized an action plan...

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