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Angus Batey
Cambridge, England
Summary
Angus Batey has been contributing to various titles within the Aviation Week Network since 2009. He has reported from military bases, industrial facilities, trade shows and conferences, on topics ranging from defense and space to business aviation, advanced air mobility and cybersecurity.
Key gains by NATO allies in the increasingly important military discipline of close air support (CAS) may be at risk, because equipment and budgetary decisions at national levels contradict alliance standards for training forward air controllers (FACs).
U.S. Marines are known for being blunt and getting straight to the point, verbal or kinetic. But when USMC Lt. Gen. Richard Mills spoke to the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's TechNet Land Forces East conference in Baltimore in August, his openness about cyberwarfare came as a shock. Mills, of the Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (MarForCyber), made no attempt to disguise the fact that his service has been using offensive cyberweapons on the battlefield—a capability that is usually shrouded in secrecy.
