2015-12-19 By Kenneth Maxwell The current situation in Brazil reminds me of the allegory of the Ship of Fools painted at the beginning of the XVI century by Heronymus Bosch and based on the satirical poem by Sebastian Brandt: A vessel seized by its deranged and oblivious passengers and bound inexorablyf or the paradise…
12/18/2015: LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. (AFNS) -- The first two Norwegian F-35s arrived here Nov. 10. Shortly after, a Norwegian pilot flew the F-35 Lightning II for the first time, in conjunction with the Royal Norwegian Air Force's birthday. The F-35 program took its first step forward, integrating partner nations…
2015-12-17 By Murielle Delaporte “The Royal Air Force, the French Air Force and the United States Air Force are three little brothers, pioneers in the history of military aviation and born some fifteen years apart of each other –- respectively in 1918, 1934 and 1947 --We are to this day…
2015-12-17 While the F-22, Typhoon and Rafale were working on ways to integrate higher end airpower at Langley AFB during the trilateral exercise, further south in Flordia, the USAF was working its legacy fleet with both the F-22 and the F-35. Given that the coming of the F-35 to the…
2015-12-15 The Second Line of Defense team joined the media day held by the Air Combat Command on December 15, 2015 to learn more about the trilateral exercise, which featured the F-22s, working with Typhoons, and for the first time with Rafales. We will have reportage on the discussions and…
2015-12-16 The tip of the spear in the exercise was provided by the premier combat jets operating today in the USAF, the RAF, and the French Air Force. Each of these combat jets—the F-22, the Eurofighter and the Rafale – has more than 10 years of combat under its belt…
The Second Line of Defense team joined the media day held by the Air Combat Command on December 15, 2015 to learn more about the trilateral exercise, which featured the F-22s, working with Typhoons, and for the first time with Rafales. We have reportage on the discussions and panels during…
2015-12-16 The Air Combat Command held a media day on December 15, 2015 to highlight the first trilateral exercise. The origin of the exercise goes back to the establishment of the trilateral agreements in 2010. Murielle Delaporte published an article in 2013 which looked at the process and the focus…
