Great power competition may be the focus of the Pentagon's latest strategy, but the 55th Wing here has been flying the coasts of China and Russia for decades. The wing's intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance jets routinely fly 12 miles off the coast of Russia and China in international airspace, so they don't expect their planes' unique electronic signals, missile launch, and radioactivity recon roles to change much in the coming years. "Honestly, this wing's been doing that since the '60s," 55th Operations Group Commander Col. Eric C. Paulson said in a June 4 interview here. "We've spiraled our technology to meet adversary technology and kept up with it, but this is what we've been doing."
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