2015-05-22 According to the CO of the Warlords, Lt. Col. Bachmann, there has been rapid progress over the past two years as the Marines prepared their aircraft for integration with the MAGTF. When I last interviewed OD Bachmann, he had just flown the 200th sortie of the aircraft. Fast forward…
2015-05-22 Six aircraft arrived for the opening of OT-1 (first phase of operational testing) on May 18, 2015 aboard the USS Wasp. The six aircraft are from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, Marine Aircraft Group 31, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Beaufort, South Carolina, and Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121,…
2015-05-21 by Robbin Laird Murielle Delaporte and I had the chance to visit 2nd Marine Air Wing and MCAS Beaufort this week. I am going next week aboard the USS Wasp to watch some aspects of the sea trials of the Marines preparing for IOC of the aircraft The visit…
On April 17, 2015, two of our partners, the Williams Foundation (Australia) and the Centre for Military Studies (University of Copenhagen) hosted a seminar in Copenhagen on airpower innovation. In this Special Report, an overview to the Symposium as well as the speaker’s presentations are highlighted and summarized. Related material…
05/20/2015: After completing his training at Eglin Air Force Base, Squadron Leader Andrew Jackson, of the Royal Australian Air Force, flew an Australian F-35 for the first time at Luke Air Force Base. Squadron Leader Jackson recently joined the team of instructor pilots training students on the fifth generation stealth…
2015-05-09 By Robbin F. Laird In the famous opening lines of Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities, he noted that “it was the best of times; its was the worst of times.” So it is for aircraft carriers. The critics of aircraft carriers focus on their vulnerability and the rise…
2015-05-17 At the Copenhagen Airpower Symposium on April 17, 2015, Group Captain Paul Godfrey, OBE, Royal Air Force, focused on the transformation of the Royal Air Force. Group Captain Paul Godfrey, OBE has extensive experience of a range of combat aircraft through Harrier, F-16 and Typhoon. As a Harrier weapons…
2015-05-08 By Robbin Laird With the Russian approach to Ukraine as defining a threat envelope, the question of Baltic defense has become a central one for NATO. And deterrence rests not simply on having exercises and declarations but a credible strategy to defeat the Russians if they decided to probe,…
