2015-03-07 The video wrap up to the Australian International Air Show published by the Australian MoD on March 1, 2015 highlights events. At this year’s Avalon Air Show, the RAFF has officially released its transformation plan. According to a story on the RAAF website published on February 23, 2015: The Chief of…
2015-03-06 The Royal Navy is building two large deck aircraft carriers. This ship and the USS America are two ships built specifically with the F-35B in mind. The Queen Elizabeth will have its sea trials next year, and construction is moving apace on the Prince of Wales. According to a…
2015-03-06 Recently an Atlas A400M of the French Air Force flew to the United Arab Emirates to deliver cargo to the French military. According, to the FAF: The A400M demonstrates a bit more each day its extraordinary capacity for projection. It can fulfill this type of mission without stoping…
2015-03-06 On March 2, 2015, the A400M Atlas touched down in French Polynesia. Currently, the French forces use two CN-235s to provide the means to link up with the five Polynesian archipelagos. There is a French Air Force detachment of 190 at Tahiti's Faa'a airfield. The flight from New Caledonia…
2015-03-06 The Tornado is being phased out in favor of the Typhoon. To do this, will require the Typhoon subsuming the close air support role of the Tornado. The key to achieving this transition is the incorporation of all of the weapons currently deployed by the Tornado being integrated by…
2015-02-28 By Ed Timperlake Ireland is a nation that has experienced great joy in celebrating the written word along with great sadness and tragedy during their many times of trouble. The Irish love of poetry and music is in their human essence as is a feistiness and undaunted courage about…
2015-02-23 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The Naval Academy Motto is; Ex Scientia Tridens –Through Knowledge Sea Power, and that captures the vision for a 21st century Cyber Operations Major being developed at the US Naval Academy. In preparing the U.S. Navy for 21st Century Warfare, the U.S. Naval…
03/05/2015: The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force(JMSDF) submarine JS Hakuryu (SS 503) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Credit:Commander Submarine Forces Pacific:2/27/15 According to Wikipedia: The Sōryū-class submarines (16SS) are diesel-electric Attack submarines that entered service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in 2009. The design is an evolution of the Oyashio class submarine, from which it can…
