Towards A Web-Based Approach to Planning 01/26 /2011 - In December, Second Line of Defense sat down with Marty Jenkins of Lockheed Martin to discuss the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System or AMF JTRS. This is a significant program which can help re-shape interactive connectivity. Mr. Jenkins…
By Richard Weitz 01/02/2011 - Although the concept of a rail gun is not a novel idea, and has been considered by militaries and science fiction writers for decades, only in the last few years has the technology developed sufficiently to allow fiction to become fact. This progress became evident…
01/02/2011 - In this slide show, a USMC operation to ferret out adversaries and to protect the local population is pictured. [slidepress gallery='marine-corps-operations-in-afghanistan'] Credit: Regimental Combat Team-2, 1st Marine Division Public Affairs 8/10/10 In the first photo, Lance Cpl. Addison Brinks, an infantryman with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine…
01/02/2011 - Sailors assigned to the littoral combat ship USS Freedom watch from the flight deck as a set of gates closes within the Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal. Freedom was conducting counter-illicit trafficking operations and theater security cooperation in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of responsibility. [slidepress gallery='uss-freedom-in-the-gatun-locks-of-the-panama-canal']…
01/02/2011 - Capt. Ryan Madrid, a fighter pilot with the 157th Fighter Squadron at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., launches an F-16 Fighting Falcon for a mission from Joint Base Balad, Iraq, on August 17, 2010. The 169th Fighter Wing sent F-16's, pilots, maintenance specialists, and support personnel overseas…
Building an Unmanned Cargo Vehicle: The Case of the AirMule An Interview With Rafi Yoeli 12/22/2010 - In a recent visit to Urban Aeronautics, a small Israeli company with significant experience in unmanned vehicles, Rafi Yoeli, CEO of the company outlined their basic cargo UAV offerings, built around variants of…
A Conversation with Dominique Maudet 12/21/2010 - The Tiger helicopter has been used by the French military in their Afghan engagement. The operational role has been to work with two other helo types in providing crucial air capabilities for the French Army. The impact of operations has highlighted the significance…
Tanks In Afghanistan: Supplementing or Augmenting Air Power Via Direct Fire Support By Murielle Delaporte
[email protected] Leopard 2 (www.forces.gc.ca) 12/09/2010 - M1A1 Abrams vs Leopard 2A6M? If the Canadians and the Danes regularly use their tanks in the Afghan theatre – respectively since 2006 and 2007 -- the U.S. military…
