2015-05-27 On May 26, 2015, several journalists flew to the USS WASP aboard an Osprey from the Pentagon to the ship off of the North Carolina coast to talk with the Navy and Marine Corps personnel about the operational testing aboard the ship of the F-35B, its operations shipboard and…
2015-05-27 According to a communication to the journalists who traveled to the USS WASP on May 26, 2012. Major Greenberg, a PAO officer with the USMC provided a helpful update on the operational testing and their progress. "The first phase of shipboard Marine Corps F-35B operational test (OT-1) is in…
05/27/2015: NATO Baltic air policing flight over Lithuania as seen in May 2015. Norwegian Air Force F -16 fighter jets fly alongside Typhoon fighters from RAF while they fulfill their Baltic air policing role. Credit: Natochannel:5/21/15 According to an RAF story published on May 13, 2015: RAF Typhoon jets operating…
05/27/2015: A P-8A Poseidon from Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 captures surveillance footage of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) conducting land reclamation operations in the South China Sea. Credit:Fleet Combat Camera Pacific:5/20/15 According to CNN, while operating in international airspace, the Chinese regularly threatened the P-8 during its mission. The…
2015-05-15 By Robbin Laird At the Copenhagen Airpower Symposium, a major theme was the impact of the F-35 on the transformation of airpower for the smaller or medium sized air forces. The coming of the F-35 was gaining momentum, and now those airpowers which are procuring the F-35, are thinking…
2015-05-24 The first photos show an F-35B Lightning during flight operations aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1). There are six F-35Bs aboard the ship, 4 from Yuma (Green Knights) and two from Beaufort (the Warlords). [maxgallery id="77762"] USS Wasp, with VMFA-121 and VMFAT-501 embarked, is underway conducting…
by Robbin Laird © 2015 FrontLine Defence (Vol 12, No 3) The tragic May 9th crash of an A400M (MSN 23), near the Airbus final assembly plant near Seville, Spain, reminds us of how risky the introduction of new systems can be. Due to be delivered to the Turkish Air…
2015-05-23 By Robbin Laird During my visit to 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade on March 17, 2015, I had a chance to interview Major General Richard L. Simcock II, Commanding General, 2d MEB, and Major Marcus Mainz, lead 2d MEB planner for Exercise Bold Alligator 2014, where we had a lengthy…
