Here’s How Air Mobility Command Will Improve Aircraft Survivability
A C-17A Globemaster III out of Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, expends countermeasure flares to defeat a simulated surface-to-air missile, or smokey SAM, shot from a Man-Portable Aircraft Survivability Trainer system during a training mission in March 2016 at the Bollen Live-Fire Range Complex on Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. (credit: Sr. Airman William Johnson/Air Force)
October 8, 2018 | Source: AirForce Times, airforcetimes.com, 22 Sept 2018, Charlsy Panzino
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