USAF’s Combat Boss Pushes For More Private Red Air

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A Draken International A-4 at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
AURORA, Colorado—The U.S. Air Force should increase its use of contracted adversary aircraft to provide more training opportunities for its fighters, even though the privately owned “red air” cannot replicate the highest end threats, the service’s top combat pilot argues. Air Combat Command boss Gen...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C.

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