The Rolling Air Frame Missile: A Very Successful International Program

01/23/2016
2016-01-23 When the US Navy declared IOC on the Rolling Air Frame Missile Block 2 in 2014, you would barely know of its origins. The Navy declared initial operational capability (IOC) on Raytheon’s Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2, which brings greater accuracy and maneuverability to the self-defense system, the company…

Australian and Chinese Naval Exercises: Shaping a Way Ahead

01/23/2016
2016-01-23 Recently, the Royal Australian Navy conducted an exercise with the Chinese Navy on its way to the Middle East. And last Fall, the RAN visited China and made port calls and performed a rescue exercise as well. According to the Australian Ministry of Defence in a piece published on January 4,…

Training Peshmerga

01/22/2016
01/22/2015: Earlier, we have argued that the training of the Peshmerga is a significant element of not only defeating ISIS but in building a post-Baghdad transition in Iraq. Here we are providing a series of updates on that training effort, being engaged in by the United States and several key…

USS Ross Departs Souda Bay

01/13/2016
01/13/2016: SOUDA BAY, Greece (Jan. 10, 2016) USS Ross (DDG 71) prepares to pull out of Souda Bay, Greece Jan. 10, 2016. Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national…

MSC Tanker Resupplying the USS Ross at Sea

01/10/2016
01/10/2016: MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Jan. 5, 2016) Sailors aboard USS Ross (DDG 71) conduct a replenishment at sea with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195) in the Mediterranean Sea Jan. 5, 2016. Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a…

Long Range Raid Training

12/20/2015
12/20/2015: U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 2/1, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), shield a simulated casualty from the debris of a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey during Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Plams, California, Oct. 30, 2015. COMPTUEX provides the MEU ARG…

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Operations

12/03/2015
12/03/2015: Sailors hook up a pendant to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Dusty Dogs of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 7 on the flight deck the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during a replenishment at sea between Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Sealift…

Expedited Aircraft Engine: A Key Logistics Task

11/15/2015
11/15/2015: Master Sgt. Patrick Applegate of the 108th Logistics Readiness Squadron directs the forklift driver as he moves an aircraft engine at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Oct. 8, 2015. The General Electric F-108 model engine, valued at more than $3 million, was expedited from the 134th Air Refueling Wing of the…