By Pierre Tran Paris – Dassault Aviation played the host for an Oct. 8 ceremony for hand over of the first Rafale fighter jet to India, signaling a close military and industrial tie France seeks to deepen amidst stiff competition from Israel, Russia and the U.S. The presence of Indian…
Second Line of Defense is attending the Chief of Navy’s Seapower Conference 2019 being held in Sydney, Australia from October 8-10 2019, We will have a number of stories generated from our participation. A key aspect being highlighted by both the new Australian government and the Royal Australian Navy is…
By Lieutenant Ryan Zerbe 26 September 2019 The Royal Australian Navy has begun its biggest deployment of the year, with more than a thousand sailors and officers bound for engagements across North- and South-East Asia. Departing today from Sydney, the lead element of a nine-ship task group will participate in…
According to a story published on the Finnish Ministry of Defence website on September 19, 2019. the Finns are to build a new class of surface warfare corvettes to replace their legacy vessels. At its plenary session on 19 September 2019, the Government authorised the Defence Forces Logistics Command to…
By Flying Officer Clarice Hurren A key Five Eyes group of air force advisers is testing interoperability across combat support, aeromedical evacuation and air mobility as part of Exercise Mobility Guardian 19 (MG19). The Five Eyes Air Force Interoperability Council (AFIC) has existed for more than 70 years, under different…
By Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird Our team tries its best to help those who are supporting our warfighters. Indeed, the entire mission of the Second Line of Defense team has been to highlight those who provide support for those in combat and those who have returned to civilian life.…
By Robbin Laird Putin came to power at the end of the Yeltsin presidency when appointed Prime Minister by Yeltsin in 1999 after which he would become the second president of the new Russian state. What Putin would create is the rebirth of the centralized Russian state or perhaps better…
Britain’s second aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wails, has sailed from Rosyth Dockyard for the first time. According to a story on the UK’s Ministry of Defence website published on September 19, 2019: Eight years after her first steel was cut, the 65,000 tonne warship will head under the iconic…
