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…

USCGC Healy Prepares for Arctic Deployment

07/20/2017
2017-07-20 The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420-foot Medium Icebreaker homeported in Seattle, conducts a shakedown cruise around the Puget Sound, May 22, 2017. As part of Healy's preparations for their Arctic West Summer 2017 deployment, they conducted flight operations with an aircrew from Coast Guard Sector Field…

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…

Working the Challenge of Software for a 21st Century Combat Force

07/19/2017
2017-07-19  San Diego, CA Mr. Ritesh Patel discusses the new approach to developing, testing, integrating and deploying software systems for the Navy while working at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific). SSC Pacific is accelerating warfighter advantage through science, engineering and discovery. SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES 07.05.2017…