Air Force captain becomes first woman in service history to receive Silver Star as crews honored for drone fight
With that award, Hester is the first woman in the Air Force to receive the Silver Star and the 10th woman in the Department of Defense’s history. Together, the Air Force said Coffey and Hester’s squadron shot down 70 drones and three ballistic missiles.
Air Force Silver Star recipients among those honored for repulsing Iranian missile and drone attack
Air Force Lt. Col. Timothy “Diesel” Causey was one of six service members to receive a Distinguished Flying Cross with valor on Nov. 12, 2024, for his actions to defend Israel against an Iranian air attack on April 13-14. (Loretto Morris/Stars and Stripes)
CNN’s national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand speaks to the US pilots that defended Israel’s airspace from an ...
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Air Force buying more drone wingmen to develop operational tacticsAnduril's Fury and General Atomics' Gambit are in the running for the first iteration of the Air Force's drone wingman ...
For the U.S. Army, the list is long, but lately, the Army has been deploying a drone most people don't know exist. The Kraus ...
When F-15 fighter pilot Maj. Benjamin “Irish” Coffey launched his jet one night last spring, he wasn’t expecting to run out ...
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US military’s new counter-UAS system tested, can detect up to 500 targetsThe U.S. military is testing a new counter-UAS system, the Teledyne Cerberus XL, which can detect up to 500 targets ...
Acquisition chief says he’s signed off on buying additional prototype drones for the service’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft ...
Anduril CEO Brian Schrimf said Trump's plan to streamline bureaucracy could make it easier for newer defense companies to ...
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At a secretive factory in Russia’s central grasslands, engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to ...
Russia's Krasnodar region came under a "massive drone attack" overnight on Nov. 15, Governor Veniamin Kondratiev reported via ...
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un orders mass production of exploding suicide drones - Testing of suicide drones amid North Korea’s ...
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