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Air Force Eyes 2018 Combat Demo For Light-Attack Aircraft

By Marc Selinger

Monday, September 18th, 2017

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Air Force Eyes 2018 Combat Demo For Light-Attack Aircraft

Air Force Gen. James "Mike" Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command. Photo: USAF.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The U.S. Air Force, which has been studying whether light-attack aircraft could serve as a low-cost supplement to its fighter jets, plans to conduct a light-attack combat demonstration "sometime next year," a key official said Sept. 18.The demonstration will build on the light-attack aircraft experiment the Air Force conducted over the summer at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, said Air Force Gen. James “Mike” Holmes, the head of Air Combat Command.Four industry-provided aircraft flew during…

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