2017-07-24 Jaryd Stock has been providing coverage of Talisman Saber 2017. In his latest posting on Aviation Photography Digest provided a look at the role of the B-1 bomber in the exercise. “The four B-1B Lancers assigned to the ‘Bats’ deployed to Guam have been upgraded to the Block 16 Integrated…
2017-07-23 The Australian Defence Force’s Amphibious Capability has passed an important milestone during Exercise Talisman Saber 17. For the first time, soldiers from the Amphibious Ready Group have launched an entire battle group ashore by both surface and air means. Troops from 1st battalion Royal Australian Regiment conducted an air mobile…
2017-07-23 NATO-led exercise Dynamic Mongoose took place in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland. Participants were training anti-submarine warfare (ASW) interoperability and anti-surface capabilities. Naval forces from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States participated with ships and…
2017-07-17 In the United States, the US Navy is the cutting edge service with regard to developing and deploying directed energy weapons technology. In part this is because ships have enough power to generate the energy necessary to operate current and next generation DE technologies. A laser has been deployed…
2017-07-22 Second Line of Defense has visited RAAF Amberley several times and has published several interviews of RAAF personnel operating from the base. This includes the KC-30A and C-17 as well Super Hornet and now the Growler leadership. During the last visit, we interviewed Group Captain Braz about the coming…
The USMC came last year with their F-35Bs; and then this year the USAF came with their F-35s to a Red Flag exercise. Now the two are working together in training for fifth generation enabled air operations. The USAF perspective was provided in an article published on July 10, 2017. NELLIS…
2017-07-19 Recently, the UK, Norway and the US signed an agreement to work together on ASW in the North Atlantic, which will leverage the joint acquisition of the P-8 aircraft. This agreement and the evolution of the aircraft is yet another example of the US and its allies standing up…
2017-07-19 About 11,000 U.S. and NATO service members from 20 countries took part in the 2017 Saber Strike exercise. The exercise took place in various regions in the Baltics and Poland from May 28-June 24. Saber Strike 17 is a long-standing Joint Chiefs of Staff-directed, U.S. European Command-scheduled, U.S. Army…
