07/18/2017: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Italian Minister of Defense Roberta Pinotti focused on NATO issues during their meeting at the Pentagon, July 11, 2017. 07.11.2017 Video by Chief Petty Officer Alma Paschall DoD News According to an article published on July 12, 2017 on the Italian Ministry of Defence website: Italy…
2017-07-15 According to an article published on July 3, 2017 on the Australian Department of Defence website: The newly formed Joint Capabilities Group (JCG) is now open for business under command of the inaugural Chief of Joint Capabilities, Air Vice-Marshal Warren McDonald. Responsible for managing raise-train-sustain functions of the Australian…
2017-07-13 By Brig (Retd) Gurmeet Kanwal New Delhi Defence Ministers Arun Jaitley and General Sergey Shoigu jointly chaired the 17th meeting of the India-Russia Inter-governmental Commission on Military-technical Cooperation on June 21-23, 2017, at Moscow. The two sides agreed on a roadmap and signed a protocol to take defence cooperation to…
2017-07-12 According to an article published by our partner defenceWeb on July 4, 2017: The arrival of democracy in South Africa has not been kind to the country’s defence industry which has seen a drop in turnover of more R12 billion from 1989/90 when it stood at R31,6 billion to…
2017-07-09 By Danny Lam North Korea’s ICBM test conducted on the eve of G20 Hamburg Summit, like the test conducted just before the NATO and G7 meetings, had both technical and political goals. Technically, it conclusively demonstrated a liquid fueled Hwasong-14 (2 stage) missile with a range equivalent to 6,700km…
06/19/2017: According to an article on the Italian Ministry of Defence website published on June 14, 2017, Szczecin Multinational Corps North-East Has Achieved NATO Full Operational Capability. NATO can now rely on a new High Readiness Headquarters In fact, having achieved Full Operational Capability as a result of a tactical assessment,…
06/20/2017: Arctic Challenge is a multinational training exercise to strengthen partnerships with other armed forces in the region. The purpose of the exercise is to practice mobilizing; evaluate aircraft, personnel and weapons capabilities; and train in multinational operations. The scenarios involve notional, simulated events, and combined flying operations between the countries.
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06/19/2017: Arctic Challenge is a multinational training exercise to strengthen partnerships with other armed forces in the Northern European region. The purpose of the exercise is to practice mobilizing; evaluate aircraft, personnel and weapons capabilities; and train in multinational operations. The scenarios involve notional, simulated events, and combined flying operations between…
