Brunei Air Show Highlights of Air Systems Demos

12/06/2013
12/06/2013: BRIDEX 2013 is a five-day event and provides displays and demonstrations of military equipment in Brunei. [slidepress gallery='brunei-air-show-highlights-of-air-systems-demos'] Credit:15th Wing Public Affairs:12/5/13 In the first photo, an MV-22B Osprey hovers in front of flags from participating nations during an aerial demonstration at the fourth biennial Brunei Darussalam International Defense…

SP-MAGTF Trains with Senegal’s Companie de Fusilier Marine Commandos

12/06/2013
12/06/2013: Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa 13 watch as Senegalese Companie de Fusilier Marine Commandos fire their weapons during a maritime assistance force engagement in Thiès, Senegal, Nov. 26, 2013. During the first week of the task force’s fourth month-long engagement in Senegal this year, the Marines…

General Rudder Flies a Prowler during Forager Fury II

12/06/2013
12/06/2013: U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Steven R. Rudder, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW) Commanding General, takes off from Andersen AFB, Guam, in an EA-6B Prowler, assigned to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron (VMAQ)-2, on 4 December 2013.  VMAQ-2is currently assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st MAW, under…

MV-22B Osprey Demonstration at BRIDEX13

12/05/2013
12/05/2013: An MV-22B Osprey conducts an aerial demonstration at the 4th Biennial Brunei Darussalam International Defense Exhibition and Conference Dec. 3 at the BRIDEX Exhibition Center in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. The five-day event includes displays and demonstrations of military equipment, with the theme of bridging the capability gap.  U.S.…

Navy P-8 Lands on Kadena

12/05/2013
12/04/2013: According to a Japan Update story published on 12/4/13: Two of the Navy’s new P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft have arrived at Kadena Air Base. The P-8’s long-planned arrival in the western Pacific comes about a week after China unilaterally declared a broad swath of the East China Sea’s air…

Stinger Launch Simulator Familiarization Training

12/04/2013
12/04/2013: U.S. Marines assigned to Low Altitude Air Defense Platoon, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266 (Reinforced), 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct Stinger Launch Simulator Familiarization training aboard USS Kearsarge, at sea, Oct. 2, 2013. Credit:26th Marine Expeditionary Unit:10/2/13