Exercise Dynamic Mongoose 2017

07/23/2017
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…

The US Navy Works Directed Energy Weapons

07/22/2017
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…

RAAF Amberley in Support of Talisman Saber 2017

07/22/2017
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…

Saber Strike 17

07/19/2017
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…

Exercise Diamond Storm 2017

07/19/2017
2017-07-19 Exercise Diamond Storm, run by the RAAF Air Warfare Centre, is one of the practical components of the Air Warfare Instructors Course, which graduates students who are experts in Australian Defence Force capabilities and integration across the services, and also have technical mastery of their own roles, capabilities and…