U.S. Air Force:

For decades, the superiority of the U.S. military has come from integrating the strengths of the military branches in joint operations.

To this effect, the Air Force’s 726th Air Control Squadron, assigned to Mountain Home Air Force Base, and the Army’s 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, assigned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, are integrating their radar, communication networks, and defense systems to increase readiness and joint operation efficiency.

“Working with the Army ensures the safety of particular assets and regions,” said Capt. Nicholas Volz, 726th ACS chief of weapons and tactics. “The 726th’s radar offers earlier detection of potential threats, better capability to identify the nature of those threats, and wider communications network to expedite the joint kill chain.”

A kill chain is the sequence of events that must take place to execute an attack…

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