Air Combat Command chief Gen. Ronald Keys, plugging the Air Force’s push to be executive agent for all the Pentagon’s high-flying unmanned aerial vehicles, said there’s “no good reason” why the sensors on Army and Air Force UAVs should be different, since they feed a common network that mostly wants the same kind of information. Having different sensors is just one of the elements that USAF leaders believe add unnecessary development and support costs, he told reporters at a press conference at Bolling AFB, D.C., earlier this week. Keys also warned that unless one service—his—is in charge of orchestrating UAVs, midair collisions with manned aircraft and “frequency fratricide” of jamming each other’s communications is inevitable. The Army and friends, of course, take a different view.
Due to the prolonged delay in deliveries of the Tech Refresh 3 version of the F-35 fighter, Denmark is pulling six of its TR-2-configured F-35 jets stationed in the U.S. back to home base in order to consolidate aircraft and get better training for its pilots and maintainers, the Danish…