Navy willing to take over JSTARS mission from the Air Force

By Lee Hudson / April 10, 2018 at 9:54 AM
The Navy is preparing to take over the battlefield command-and-control mission from the Air Force if the latter service does not replace the current platform, according to a Navy official. Capt. Tony Rossi, maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft program manager, told reporters today at the Navy League's annual Sea-Air-Space symposium the Air Force has said it is not recapitalizing the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System "but there's other forces in the government that have a say in that decision,...

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