12/20/2014: An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter from the Red Lions of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 15 prepares to pick up supplies from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) to distribute to the other ships in the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group. Carl Vinson…
12/18/2014: Time-lapse inflation of a Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) aerostat at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., Dec. 14, 2014. LENS provides national command authorities with increased situational awareness and early warning detection against possible threats. Credit:U.S. Northern Command:12/14/14 According to the Raytheon website: JLENS,…
2014-12-17 Recently, we published an interview with Group Captain Paul Godfrey, one of the senior RAF officers involved with bringing the F-35B into service with the UK armed forces. A key aspect which he highlighted was the cross-fertilization of the force by bringing both the F-35B and the new class…
12/17/2014: These photos are of the USS Dewey operating at sea in both August and September 2014. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105), fires its MK 45 - 5-inch 54/62 caliber gun during a live-fire exercise. Dewey is underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility…
12/16/2014: Chinese Harbin Z-9E helicopter practices landing aboard the U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104). Sterett and ships from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (Navy) PLA(N) commenced a bilateral counter-piracy exercise, U.S.-China Counter-Piracy Exercise 15, in the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa. Aiming to promote…
12/15/2014: Sailors replace an 11.75-foot, 4-blade reversible pitch propeller on the starboard side of Landing Craft Air Cushion 31 in the well deck of amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego (LPD 22) during a maintenance evolution. San Diego, part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, is on her…
2014-12-14 The Baltic Air Policing mission has been a regular one for NATO. The latest Air Policing mission was set in motion in early September 2014. According to Gaerth Jennings of Jane's in a September 8th 2014 story: The Netherlands has contributed fighter aircraft to the current Baltic Air Policing…
2014-12-12 Eurofighter is continuing to progress with its weapons modernization program. Recent test firings of Storm Shadow by the Typhoon are a crucial step in the subsuming of some of the missions of the soon to be retired Tornado aircraft. According to a Eurofighter press release dated early December 2014:…
