2016-06-03 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The U.S. and its core allies are transforming systems, which tend to operate separately but then networked to gain greater synergy to ones which are “” from the ground up into a seamless offensive-defensive enterprise. In our book on the rebuilding of American military…
2016-06-06 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake During our visit to Jax Navy On 22 and 24 May, we had a chance to meet with and discuss the P-8/Triton with Commander Miguel Martinez, CO of Patrol Squadron 16 and Commander Amanda Hawkins, the Executive Officer of the Squadron. The Command…
2016-06-08 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The US Navy is building a new Maritime Domain Awareness strike capability with the P-8/Triton dyad. To move from a program which exists on paper to one which exits in practice is a challenge. And to do so, the role of a person…
2016-05-31 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The USN is approaching the P-8/Triton combat partnership as a way to address the integration of manned, and unmanned systems, or what are now commonly called “remotes”. The Navy looked at the USAF experience and intentionally decided to not build a Triton “remote”…
2016-05-29 By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird The great historian Max Hastings in a seminal book about all the fighting forces of World War II said that after some very nasty set backs early in the war, the US and Royal Navies emerged as the most effective fighting forces in…
2016-05-31 RAF Lossiemouth is a Quick Reaction base and supports the Baltic Air Policing Mission as well. This ensures that Typhoon pilots and crews are getting used to dealing with the Russian Air Force. [maxgallery id="86830"] According to David Mackay of The Press and Journal in a piece published May…
2016-05-26 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake On May 23 and 24, 2016, we visited Jacksonville Naval Air Station and spent time with the P-8 and Triton community which is shaping a common culture guiding the transformation of the ASW and ISR side of Naval Air. The acquisition term for…
2016-06-03 An important achievement in European military cooperation has been the European Air Transport Command. According to the European Air Transport Command (EATC) website: On 1st September 2010 a new chapter in the book of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) was opened, as the EATC was inaugurated in Eindhoven,…