2016-06-20 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake We have argued that the 21st century warfighting enterprise is in need of a weapons revolution. As the former Chief Scientist of the USAF, Dr. Mark Lewis put it: : “Why are we putting 3rd and 4th generation weapons on 5th generation aircraft? https://sldinfo.com/building-21st-century-weapons-for-21st-century-operations-key-attributes-of-the-new-weapons-enterprise/…
2016-06-19 By defenceWeb The global defense trade reached a record-breaking $65 billion in 2015 fueled by conflict in the Middle East and military spending in Southeast Asia. This is according to the annual Global Defence Trade Report released on 13 June by IHS Inc. The report found that the Middle…
2016-06-19 The process of enhanced cooperation among the US, Japanese and Indian navies is proceeding apace. The Chinese have already driven a deeper defense relationship between the two most important Pacific naval powers in the 20th century and now are putting the Indians in play as well. Enhanced cooperation provides…
2016-06-16 By Gulshan Luthra India Strategic Ever since President Bill Clinton…. Washington has steadily made attempts to come closer to New Delhi. President Clinton was impressed by India’s measured response in launching the limited Kargil War in 1999 to evict the Pakistani army from the Kashmir heights it had intruded…
2016-06-08 HMAS Adelaide participated in Exercise Sea Explorer 2016 (EX SE16) from 25 May – 05 June off the coast of North Queensland as part of the certification process to determine its readiness to conduct amphibious operations. The second Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) to be commissioned into the Royal Australian…
2016-06-13 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The P-8 is a new plane unlike the P-3. That brings clear advantages compared to the P-3 at the end of its service life. In one of our discussions at Jax Navy, one of P-3 operators made the point that they were spending…
2016-06-05 The RAAF KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport provides air-to-air refueling support to international coalition aircraft in the skies over Iraq as part of Task Group 630. On 27 April 2016, the deployed KC-30A surpassed the milestone of delivering 50 million pounds (27 million kilograms) of fuel to receiver aircraft in…
2016-06-06 A look at the new CH-53K is provided in a set of interviews with the USMC. The article is based on interviews with: Colonel Paul Fortunato, Branch Head, Weapons Requirements (APW-1) Colonel Hank Vanderborght, Program Manager, PMA-261/H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopters Major Thomas Trimble, Heavy Lift Requirements (APW-51), Department of…
