Creech Air Force Base

It had to do with CSAC.

When Bill Perry was still very much a presence at CSAC, he said, "I want to take a bunch of faculty to Creech Air Force Base to see drone operations, to understand them in Afghanistan, to taste, touch, and feel what it's like with these new technologies." And that's what got me on this now 15-year journey in how drones could revolutionize not just warfare, but coercion.

So hat tip to him for really herding the cats of us and taking us on a field trip, which really changed the trajectory of my scholarship.

So I think there's a lot of attention, as you point out, to the revolutionary capabilities of drones in war.

Precisely.

An operator sitting in a climate-controlled trailer at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada is looking at a grayscale or infrared thermal monitor.

The target isn't a person carrying dry cleaning.

It's a white pixelated heat bloom.

Drone training isn't just handing a guy a controller and saying, now you fly over here and then you explode.

There's just a bit more to it when it comes to, again, drones, countermeasures, how those particular things operate, how in an environment as quickly moving as this, you move from just, again, your kind of basic commercial drone that flies high, takes pictures, and deals with very, very remedial and basic, rather mediocre, interception and jamming techniques, rather than a piece of military equipment that's meant to move from point A to point B and give a certain amount of control to an at-distance user or an at-distance operator, say, as far away as Creech Air Force Base, for instance, since we're just naming certain facilities and areas here.

Now, the United States has begun a series of increased operations along the southern border.

And that's what Jared C. Ashby, chief patrol agent, was saying as kind of a warning to the cartels.

That's the kind of business that I want to see.

And then also, we're neighbors with Nellis Air Force Base, with Creech Air Force Base, with the test range.

I'd like to see more manufacturing or businesses that are supporting the military installations in the area.

That's another logical thing.

They've already seen Fury carrying air-to-air missiles, as well as doing live missile tests.

General Atomics has delivered a Vengeance to Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.

They did that this past month, and it has already flown in formation with both the F-35 and F-15E Strike Eagle.

Now, if we mark our calendars from the contract award to the first flight, it's about eighteen months.

Air Force's collaborative combat aircraft are taking another step toward the future of air power.

Read how the arrival of CCA at Creech Air Force Base is advancing operational experimentation, helping refine how semi-autonomous systems will integrate with crewed aircraft in tomorrow's flights.

The Air Force received its first two collaborative combat aircraft at Cheech- Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, marching a significant-- marking a significant step toward integrating uncrewed semi-autonomous aircraft into future combat operations.

Anduril delivered the first CCA to the experimental op- operations unit last month, and General Atomics delivered the YFQ-42A last week.

The aircraft will support air combat command-led operational experimentation to refine how CCA will be employed alongside crewed aircraft in contested environments.

The planes have been built.

General Atomics has delivered one to Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, where it will continue.

So I'm looking this up right now.

Maybe I'll get some videos.

Let me read this story to you guys while we're on here.

We're a little bit over, but we're talking about something that I love.

General Atomics has delivered another FQ-42 Vengeance aircraft to Creech Air Force Base in Nevada where it will continue participating in flight testing and evaluation activities.

The delivery comes as the Vengeance continues to demonstrate its ability to operate alongside crewed combat aircraft.

The planes have been built.

General Atomics has delivered one to Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, where it will continue.

So I'm looking this up right now.

Maybe I'll get some videos.

Let me read this story to you guys while we're on here.

We're a little bit over, but we're talking about something that I love.

General Atomics has delivered another FQ-42 Vengeance aircraft to Creech Air Force Base in Nevada where it will continue participating in flight testing and evaluation activities.

The delivery comes as the Vengeance continues to demonstrate its ability to operate alongside crewed combat aircraft.