ACC official: Command may consider future experiments after light attack

By Courtney Albon / May 18, 2018 at 3:46 PM
A top Air Combat Command planning and requirements official said Friday that if the service's experimentation with a potential light-attack acquisition program proves successful, he wouldn't rule out the possibility of future experiments to further boost the service's attack aircraft fleet. The Air Force Association's Mitchell Institute released a new paper May 18 discussing the ongoing light-attack effort and raising the possibility of applying the model to other platforms, including a light reconnaissance jet (R/A-X), an attack variant of the...

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