2015-05-02 Late in the evening of April 29, 2015, an Air Force transport KC-767 aircraft took off from Pratica di Mare directed to Nepal, carrying a medical, technical and operational task force sent by the Italian Government to provide humanitarian aid to the Nepalese people in the aftermath of the…
2015-05-02 Earlier this year, Japan and the UK as well as Australia and Japan expanded their discussions on defense industrial cooperation. In an agreement in March, the Japanese did this with France. According to a Reuters story published on March 13, 2015: Japan and France signed a deal on military…
2015-05-02 According to a story published on 4/9/15 on the Norwegian Ministry of Defense website, Norway will take over the role of policing Baltic airspace this month. The Baltic nations Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have all been members of the NATO alliance since 2004, but because of limited own capacities the…
2015-04-29 The Royal Dutch Air Force (RNLAF) has selected the F-35 as its next generation aircraft. Indeed, the Norwegians and the Dutch are both planning to be an all-fifth generation fleet. Others might join them in Europe as well in this process. The Italian and the UK Air Forces will…
2015-05-01 Ed Timperlake, editor of the Second Line of Defense Forum, was the last speaker of the day prior to the wrap up of the Danish airpower symposium. The title of his briefing was “Early 21st Century Warfighting Trends: Technology, Training and Tactics,” and focused on the intersection of the…
2015-04-24 By Robbin Laird This is fifth time I have had the opportunity to visit the first or early squadron of a new generation air system. I started with the Osprey more than eight years ago, have had multiple visits to various bases involved in the standup of the F-35,…
2015-04-30 The current Chief of Staff of the French Air Force (FAF), General Mercier, is on a visit to the United States prior to taking up his new command, as the head of the Allied Command Transformation (ACT) NATO, based in Norfolk, VA. In the roundtable in which he participated on April…
2015-04-30 At the Copenhagen Airpower Symposium hosted by the Centre for Military Studies and the Williams Foundation on April 17, 2015, Col. Bernard “Jeep” Willi, Combat Air Branch Head of the NATO Joint Air Power Competency Centre (JAPCC), provided an overview of the role and current work of the JAPCC.…
