2017-06-29 During a visit to Norway earlier this year, the Norwegian Deputy Minister of Defense underscored the importance of allies building new missile capabilities for the F-35 as a coalition aircraft. In the discussion with Mr. Øystein BØ, the State Secretary and Deputy Defense Minister at the Norwegian Ministry of Defense,…
2017-06-29 By Helmoed Romer Heitman Another year, another defence budget, and once again the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is left short-changed and under-funded, as it has been for almost a quarter of a century, despite periods of high operational commitments and tempo. That mismatch between funding and commitments has…
2017-06-26 In the slideshows and videos for June 23, 24 and 25, the final events at this year's Paris Air Show are highighted. The photos and videos are provided by ParisAirShow.TV. The following aircraft are highlighted in the video for the flying display on June 25, 2017. French Air Force Flying Team…
2017-06-28 By Robbin Laird During my visit to RAF Lossiemouth in March 2017, I had a chance to talk with Wing Commander Billy Cooper, the boss of 6 Squadron. His father had served in 6 Squadron after World War II, so there is real passion and commitment to the squadron…
2017-06-28 Second Line of Defense has visited the Queen Elizabeth while it was being built in Scotland as well as various F-35B facilitates in the US and the UK preparing for the integration of the fifth generation aircraft with a new generation carrier. Now for the first time, the new…
2017-06-25 By Danny Lam The F-16 deal for India – if it goes through – has the potential to become a game changer for not just the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Uninformed critics of the deal derided it as a deal for an obsolete light fighter…
2017-06-18 Recently, the RAAF just completed sortie 1000 in its Middle East mission. It has done so with a 93% dispatch rate and has provided approximately 10% of all coalition fuel in the overall coalition air operations. They have done this by flying one aircraft! As the USAF is still…
2017-06-27 by Robbin Laird During the past year, the Typhoons at RAF Lossiemouth have been deployed worldwide. They have become mainstays at Operation Shader in the Middle East, and have been to the Pacific (South Korea, Malaysia and Japan) as well most recently to Red Flag and Green Flag in…
