SLD Special Reports

Enhancing and Accelerating the Integrated Force: An Operational Perspective

10/07/2024 On September 26, 2024, the most recent seminar of The Sir Richard Williams Foundation was held. It was entitled: “Enhancing and Accelerating the Integrated Force: An Operational Perspective.” This seminar focused on how the force in being or the ready force was focused on improving its capability, its survivability and lethality for the fight tonight.… Download PDF Now »
Whats New

New Capabilities for Littoral Security and Military Operations: The Case for Seagliders

01/02/2025 By Robbin Laird Technologies and actions by our strategic competitors are dramatically reshaping maritime security and defense strategy, particularly in the Black, Red, & South China Seas.  Littoral operations are… Read more »

Technology and Changing Concepts of Operations: Transforming Military Vehicle Architecture

12/21/2024 By Pierre Tran LIMOGES, France – Texelis, a builder of powertrains for armored vehicles, was working on an 18-month feasibility study for an electric hub drive to power hybrid diesel/electric… Read more »

Return to NAWDC: An Update on the MISR Pilot Program

12/12/2024 I last visited the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center in Fallon, Nevada during the pandemic in 2020 during the Rear Admiral Brophy’s time in command of NAWDC. During that visit… Read more »

The Second Pillar of the Italian Approach to Airpower: The Cameri Approach

12/05/2024 The first pillar of the Italian approach to airpower has been a clear commitment to the F-35 as a driver of change in shaping a fifth generation enabled force. The… Read more »

The Third Pillar of the Italian Airpower Enterprise: The International Flight Training School

12/04/2024 By Robbin Laird The Italian Air Force leadership saw early on that the F-35 was more than a next generation aircraft – it was a whole different way to look… Read more »

The Perspective of Admiral Verissimo on the Coming of the CMV-22B to the Atlantic Naval Air Force

12/03/2024 I had the privilege of visiting Norfolk in the recent past and discussing the coming of the USS Gerald R. Ford with the first commander of Ford and then the… Read more »
In Briefs

Ramstein Flag 24

01/17/2025 Allied fighter jets participating in NATO exercise Ramstein Flag 24 fly in formation over the west coast of Greece, Oct. 4, 2024. Over 130 fighter and enabler aircraft from Greece,… Read more »

5th MEU Loads MV-22B Ospreys With Disaster Relief Supplies at Laoag Airport

01/15/2025 U.S. Marines assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and Marine Rotational Force-Southeast Asia, alongside Philippine Marines assigned to 4th Marine Brigade, load disaster relief supplies into MV-22B Ospreys… Read more »

F-35s arrive at MCAS Iwakuni

01/13/2025 U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 225, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), arrive at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Aug. 13, 2024.… Read more »

Heavy Lift at WTI 1-25

01/10/2025 U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, conduct heavy lift exercises as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 1-25 at Auxiliary Airfield 2 near Yuma,… Read more »

Casualty Evacuation Via Osprey

01/08/2025 U.S. Marines and Sailors assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One conduct simulated casualty evacuation as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 1-25 near Yuma, Arizona, Oct.… Read more »

Exercise Ramstein Flag 24

01/06/2025 Exercise Ramstein Flag 24, organised by NATO’s Allied Air Command and the Hellenic Air Force, is under way in Greece. This exercise runs from 30 September to 11 October 2024… Read more »

MQ-9 Training

01/02/2025 U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, conduct an MQ-9 training flight as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 1-25 at Laguna Army Airfield, Arizona,… Read more »
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Transporting Patriot Missiles aboard MV-22B Osprey

01/09/2025 U.S. Army Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment and U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing transport Patriot… Read more »
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