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Official: Air Force Needs Expanded Ranges, Adversary Air Support For Fifth-Gen Aircraft Training

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Official: Air Force Needs Expanded Ranges, Adversary Air Support For Fifth-Gen Aircraft Training
Lt. Gen. Mark Kelly, Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations

The Air Force’s top operations official is looking to expand aerial training range space and bring in industry to provide “sparring partners” for pilots, as the service looks to make full use of new training opportunities for its fifth-generation aircraft.Lt. Gen. Mark Kelly, deputy chief of staff for operations, told attendees at a Wednesday Mitchell Institute event the Air Force is looking to 2019 to expand training resources to test the full extent of new sensors and emitters on its…

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