2017-08-14 By Edward Timperlake and Robbin Laird During our recent visit to Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center or NAWDC, Captain Leif “Weed” Steinbaugh, Director of Training at NAWDC, provided our first briefing which oriented us to the changes at NAWDC since we last visited Fallon Naval Air Station in 2014.…
2017-08-17 Mobility Guardian 2017 is a lift and tanking exercise designed to enhance the training of U.S. and allied crews in terms of operating in contested airspace. As high tempo and high intensity operations return as a core activity, the Aussies at Tailsman Sabre 2017 and at Mobility Guardian 2017…
2017-08-09 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake We first visited Fallon Naval Air Station in 2014 and produced a Special Report on the evolution of Naval Aviation anchored in part by that visit. https://sldinfo.com/the-evolving-future-for-naval-aviation/ As the then head of the training center, Admiral Scott Conn, who will soon become head…
2017-08-10 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake During our recent visit to NAWDC, we had a chance to talk with the leadership of N-10 or HAVOC as it is known at NAWDC. N10: The US Navy's Airborne Electronic Attack Weapons School, call sign "HAVOC", stood up in 2011 to execute the…
2017-08-11 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The new variant of the Hawkeye has come to the fleet. The E-2D IOC’d with VAW-125 in 2014. And aboard the USS Theodore Roosevel, they completed a CENTCOM deployment ISO OIR. Then earlier this year, the E2-DE-2D as it is known arrived in…
2017-08-09 By Danny Lam The rapid development of North Korean ICBM capability exposed an apparent inconsistency with similar developments in other nuclear weapons powers. Land based ICBMs, by their nature, are physically large missiles.Liquid fueled, they are difficult to transport whether empty or fueled. Solid fueled ICBMs are less problematic,…
2017-07-30 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The new Dunkirk movie is one of the best war movies in years. It does what film does best; put one into the shoes of the persons involved rather than providing a platform for lecturing the audience on the moral values of the…
2017-07-29: Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 "Wake Island Avengers," 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, participate in Red Flag 17-3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., July 10 to 28. Red Flag 17-3 is a realistic combat training exercise involving the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps and this iteration…
