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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 26, 2019, 11:14:36 am
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Investigators report US military training range woes across Indo-Pacific region
By: Geoff Ziezulewicz  
Some of the military’s premier ranges for training jet and helicopter pilots are antiquated and unable to prep units for conventional war, according to a Defense Department Inspector General report released this week.
The IG looked at ranges used by aviation units assigned to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
It found a Navy range in Nevada hampered by 50-year-old ground surface-to-air simulators, next-generation Air Force jets that can’t recognize antiquated Soviet missile systems as a threat on an Alaskan range and F-35B joint strike fighter pilots who don’t have enough range space to train adequately at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/04/23/investigators-report-us-military-training-range-woes-across-indo-pacific-region/ (https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/04/23/investigators-report-us-military-training-range-woes-across-indo-pacific-region/)