Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Tuesday he will enter the cockpit of an F-16 that the service has converted for drone flight to see how it performs.
Footage showed an Altius-700M shooting out of a ground-based launcher, cutting through the air and then crashing into a mock surface-to-air missile system.
The Space Force's first "Red Skies" orbital warfare exercise tested whether guardians could command and control multiple satellites amid simulated threats.