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Tests with the GBU-31 pave the way for the use of Joint Direct Attack Munitions against "moving and static maritime targets". Three F-15E Strike Eagles from the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron carried out tests with modified 2,000 GBU-31 JDAMs on Aug. 26, 2021. According to the 53rd Wing, partnering with the Air Force Research Laboratory, the F-15E crews developed and demonstrated new tactics, techniques, and procedures for employing modified GBU-31s on both moving and static maritime targets....

https://theaviationist.com/…/02/f-15e-g ... ime-targ…/

Next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Unity from Spaceport America, with three paying crew members from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council will be the first commercial, human-tended research mission for Virgin Galactic and first mission of its kind led by European country. The Italian Air Force and the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - National Research Council) along with…...
https://theaviationist.com/2021/09/02/v ... 1-mission/