2015-02-10 The annual Nordic-Baltic Chief of defence meeting was conducted in Norway 29th and 30th January this year. The purpose of this annual meeting is to discuss regional challenges and to identify common opportunities. Topics beeing discussed are military developments concerning equipment, training, exercises and operations. Among this years topics…
2015-02-10 In its first deployment outside of Spain, Spanish air defense forces deploy to Turkey. Spanish troops joined NATO’s Patriot anti-ballistic missile deployment in Adana, Turkey on Monday (26 January 2015), replacing a Dutch unit which had been stationed there since January 2013. For the past two years, NATO’s Patriot…
2015-02-09 by defenceWeb Embraer on February 3 performed the first flight of its new KC-390 military transport. Test pilots Mozart Louzada and Marcos Salgado de Oliveira Lima and flight test engineers Raphael Lima and Roberto Becker flew the aircraft for 1 hour and 25 minutes, evaluating flying qualities and performance."This…
2015-02-08 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake The first day of our visit to the USAF Warfare Center was defined by the arrival of the first F-35 specifically for the Weapons School. The arrival of the Block 3 aircraft is the first of several which allow the Weapons School to…
2015-02-07 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake During our visit to the USAF Warfare Center we had a chance to sit down with Lt. Col. Benjamin “Bach” Bishop, the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron director of operations, to discuss his experience with the Operational Testing of the F-35, and the…
2015-02-06 Secretary Hagel participated in the recent NATO ministerial at NATO headquarters, and spoke about how he saw the challenges facing the Alliance. He highlighted the cross-cutting impact of three threats: Russian seizure of Crimea and threats to the North; terrorism at home in the NATO territories; and combating ISIL…
02/06/2015 Second Line of Defense attended the ceremony for the arrival of the first F-35A to the USAF Weapons School on January 15, 2015. There are already 4 F-35As here with the test wing, but this is the first full up IOC template F-35A, which will be put through its paces…
2015-02-04 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake During our visit to Nellis AFB we had the chance to sit down with Col. Ted “Vader” Dempsey, the Commander of the Nevada Test and Training Range. According to a local Georgia paper (in a piece published in March 2014) which highlighted Dempsey’s…
