DADS reverts back to Top Aces
Discovery Air Defence Services, originally known as Top Aces, has reverted to its former name. Although trading as Discovery Air Defence until 1 February, the Top Aces brand was still used in the US.
The company said that it has ‘flown 68,000-plus accident-free flight hours and is the exclusive adversary air provider to the Australian, Canadian, US and German armed forces’.
The next couple of years will be important for adversary air or ‘red air’ service providers in that the US Air Force, US Navy, US Marine Corps and UK MoD all have major requirements. In the US, the
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