2016-06-10 By Richard Weitz As expected, China’s claims to the South China Sea dominated last weekend’s Shangri-La Defense Dialogue in Singapore. As usual, Russian military views and actions in the Asia-Pacific theater were largely ignored at the event and in Western commentary. In his speech to the plenary, Anatoly Antonov,…
2016-05-26 By Richard Weitz Obama’s just completed his trip to Vietnam, the first of his presidency. The US President discussed trade and investment, economic and energy development, human rights and democracy (the main area of disagreement in the joint presidential news conference), academic exchanges and humanitarian assistance, and of course…
2016-05-22 The RAF has sent both jets and ships to engage in the defense of the Baltics. Four RAF Typhoons are participating in the current NATO Baltic Air Policing Mission. According to the UK Ministry of Defence in a piece published on May 17, 2016: Royal Air Force Typhoons have completed…
2016-05-17 Recently, Denmark selected the F-35 as their next combat aircraft in an open competition with Eurofighter and Super Hornet. Not only did they select the F-35, they have released public information with regard to that selection process and how they reached their decision. In the Question and Answer session held…
2016-05-19 "An Australian-United States team has successfully completed an experimental hypersonic flight at the Woomera Test Range. The experimental rocket reached an apogee of 278 km, achieving the targeted speed of Mach 7.5 (seven and a half times the speed of sound). The experimental flight was undertaken as part of…
2016-05-15 By Richard Weitz While celebrating the formal inauguration last week of its new Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense (BMD) site in Romania, NATO’s July heads-of-state summit in Warsaw will need to decide how to develop NATO’s BMD architecture after the fulfillment of the existing plans to establish one more…
2016-05-11 By Robbin Laird We have been building on Paul Bracken’s work on the second nuclear age to focus on the impact of the rethink regarding nuclear weapons going on globally. https://sldinfo.com/rethinking-nuclear-deterrence-shaping-a-way-ahead/ SLD: And to the point of different perspectives, that really goes to the heart of the matter. We…
05/06/2016: The highest priority skillset for the Afghan Air Force A-29 Super Tucano pilots is the effective execution of close air support (CAS). Pilots are trained to employ rockets, precision-guided bombs, general purpose bombs, and strafe. The A-29 can employ a variety of weapons to do this mission: .50 cal…
