U.S. Air Forces Central’s (AFCENT) Task Force 99 (TF 99) unit at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar began short-range drone intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance flight tests this month, and Air Force Col. Robert Smoker, the unit's new commander, said on Feb. 23 that a commercial off-the-shelf, 3D mapping unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has collected data and given AFCENT "really good imagery." "We were able to get better imagery than you get from Google Earth from this off-the-shelf capability," he said…
