11/10/2016: C-130 Time lapse of front and back of aircraft in Afghanistan.
Credit:AFGHANISTAN:455th Air Expeditionary Wing:10/11/2016
11/10/2016: C-130 Time lapse of front and back of aircraft in Afghanistan.
Credit:AFGHANISTAN:455th Air Expeditionary Wing:10/11/2016
11/08/2016: An international team of scientists working on the multi-year research project ‘Towards the Monitoring of Dumped Munitions Threat’ (MODUM), supported by NATO’s Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Program have been mapping the ocean floor, locating and monitoring munitions dump sites in the Baltic Sea.
The variety of chemical weapons and explosives left over from the Second World War is thought to pose a significant threat to marine life in the region.
Footage includes interviews with key scientists and mission personnel, archive material of the underwater dump sites and operations on board a Polish research vessel.
Credit: Natochannel:10/11/2016
11/05/2016: The original Endeavour, a copy of which can be seen at the Maritime Museum in Sydney, was the flagship of Captain Cook and amazingly this sailing ship crossed the oceans and explored Australia and the environs.
HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand, from 1769 to 1771.
She was launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, and the navy purchased her in 1768 for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean and to explore the seas for the surmised Terra Australis Incognita or “unknown southern land”.
The navy renamed and commissioned her as His Majesty’s Bark the Endeavour. She departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venusacross the Sun.
She then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Bora Bora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain.
In September 1769, she anchored off New Zealand, the first European vessel to reach the islands sinceAbel Tasman’s Heemskerck 127 years earlier.
In April 1770, Endeavour became the first ship to reach the east coast of Australia, when Cook went ashore at what is now known as Botany Bay.Endeavour then sailed north along the Australian coast.
She narrowly avoided disaster after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef, and Cook had to throw her guns overboard to lighten her. He then beached her on the mainland for seven weeks to permit rudimentary repairs to her hull.
On 10 October 1770, she limped into port in Batavia (now named Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies for more substantial repairs, her crew sworn to secrecy about the lands they had visited.
She resumed her westward journey on 26 December, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on 13 March 1771, and reached the English port of Dover on 12 July, having been at sea for nearly three years.
Largely forgotten after her epic voyage, Endeavour spent the next three years sailing to and from the Falkland Islands.
Sold into private hands in 1775, and later renamed as Lord Sandwich, she was hired as a British troop transport during the American War of Independence and was scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, in 1778.
As of 2016 her wreck had not been precisely located but was thought to be one of a cluster of five in Newport Harbor, and searching continued.
Relics, including six of her cannon and an anchor, are displayed at maritime museumsworldwide.
A replica of Endeavour was launched in 1994 and is berthed alongside the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney Harbour.
The US space shuttle Endeavour is named after the ship and she is depicted on the New Zealand fifty-cent coin.
This video highlights the STS Young Endeavour where young Australians from 16-23 go to sea and learn about the challenges of operating a sailing ship.
Credit: Royal Australian Navy:October 10, 2016
11/05/2016: U.S. Marines participate in force-on-force training during Exercise Silver Arrow 2016 at Adazi Military Base in Latvia, Oct. 27, 2016.
Silver Arrow is a multinational annual exercise designed to expedite NATO’s response time during conflict and increase collective defense capabilities amongst nations.
ADAZI, LATVIA
10/27/2016
U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa
11/03/2016: Maj. Gen. Paul McLachlan, AM, CSC,Commander 1st Division/ Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, Australian Defence Force.
The Army War Fighting Assessment provides the Army, joint force, and multinational partners a triple payoff of training, interoperability, and future force development.
EL PASO, TX, UNITED STATES
10/27/2016
7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
11/01/2016: Australian Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, put the new Mark 47 L40-2 lightweight automatic grenade launcher through its paces during a live-fire training activity at the Joint Proof and Experimental Establishment near Port Wakefield, South Australia, in September 2016.
The live-fire training activity is part of the ongoing LAND 40 Phase 2 acceptance testing and evaluation process.
The Mk47 grenade launcher is a state-of-the-art system with an integrated fire control system, capable of launching smart and unguided rounds.
The Mk47 grenade launcher is expected to enter service with the Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force in November 2016. 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR), is an Australian Army light infantry battalion based at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville, Queensland, where 1 RAR is part of 3rd Brigade.
Credit: Australian Ministry of Defense:October 4, 2016
10/30/2016: Southern Strike is a total force, multi-service training exercise hosted by the Mississippi Air National Guard’s Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Miss.
The exercise emphasizes air-to-air, air-to-ground and special operations forces training opportunities.
These events are integrated into demanding hostile and asymmetric scenarios with actions from specialized ground forces and combat and mobility air forces.
GULFPORT COMBAT READINESS TRAINING CENTER, MS, UNITED STATES
10/21/2016
1st Combat Camera Squadron
10/31/2016: Ships, submarines and aircraft all take part in large-scale exercises off the west coast of Scotland, performing anti-submarine warfare, mine counter-measures, maritime security, live fire and close air support.
AT SEA
10/20/2016
Natochannel
According to a Royal Navy press release dated October 7, 2016:
Scotland will host elements of a major military exercise when Exercise Joint Warrior begins on Saturday (October 8).
Around 5,700 military personnel from armed forces across the world will take part in the UK-led training which will run from 8 to 20 October.
Thirty-one warships and submarines, as well as some 67 aircraft will be involved, with much of the activity taking place off the Scottish coast, at RAF Lossiemouth, at Prestwick and on military ranges across the country.
At the same time as Joint Warrior, the world’s first large scale, multi environment demonstration of unmanned technology will also take place in the Western Isles.
Unmanned Warrior, as it is known, will give industry an opportunity to show the latest systems at military ranges in Benbecula, Stornoway, Applecross and Kyle of Lochalsh.