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By Jill Pickett, AEDC/PA / Published May 03, 2021 Collaborative Small Diameter Bombs (CSDBs) are launched from the wing of an F-16 fighter from the Air Force Test Center’s 96th Test Wing at Eglin AFB. Four of the bombs were dropped during the second flight demonstration of the Air Force Golden Horde Vanguard on February 19th. (Courtesy photo) Four Collaborative Small Diameter Bombs (CSDBs) hang from the wing of an F-16 fighter from the Air Force Test Center’s 96th Test Wing at Eglin AFB. Two of the bombs were dropped during the first flight demonstration of the Air Force ...

F-15EX Eagle II: We Will Soon Know How Deadly This Fighter Will Be A forthcoming exercise in Alaska will give military planners a chance to help find out. The Air Force’s upcoming Northern Edge exercise in Alaska is intended to test the boundaries of modern warfare by replicating a wide sphere of advanced threats to include enemy aircraft, air defenses, and even space-generate attacks upon air assets. The service plans to field several new F-15EX Eagle II aircraft as part of its exercise, a wargame intended to place a special focus upon combat networking such as the now well-known Joint All...

An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 96th Test Wing prepares to land at Holloman AFB, New Mexico on 17 February 2021. (Photo: USAF/Master Sgt Tristan McIntire) Three contracts cover advisory services for the 96th Cyberspace Test Group. The US DoD on 6 April announced three ‘advisory and assistance services’ contracts, totalling more than $1.2 billion, to be performed for the 96th Cyberspace Test Group at Eglin AFB in Florida. Oasis Systems received the largest contract (worth $543.27 million) from the Air Force Test Center at Eglin, followed by Torch Technologies ($474.99 million) and the CQ ...

Air Force broadens height standards for career enlisted aviator fields March 8 U.S. Air Force Capt. Megan E. Burk, of the 413th Test Squadron, performs tasks during an anthropometric accommodation evaluation on the MH-139A Grey Wolf at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., in August 2020. This study is part of a multi-agency effort to create the first anthropometric entry standards for U.S. Air Force career enlisted aviators. (Courtesy Photo) The Air Force has established interim height standards for flying enlisted aviator career fields — broadening the pool of airmen who can serve as flight en...

The event will be part of a quarterly series of workshops offered by the detachment, each with a different theme. This quarter’s theme is cybersecurity.,