2017-07-22 Earlier we highlighted the key way in which allies are leading the way for the United States in standing up F-35 squadrons abroad. A key dynamic in the shift from COIN-centric land wars to a twenty-first century combat force is what the US and its closest allies will learn from each other thanks…
2017-07-19 The next seminar to be held by the Williams Foundation in Canberra will focus on electronic warfare. The seminar will be held on August 23, 2017 at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and Second Line of Defense will be covering the seminar and producing a report as…
2017-07-22 According to our partner defenceWeb in a piece published on July 18, 2017, the Overberg test range has hosted its first flight of a jet-propelled UAV. Airbus Defence and Space (ADS) used Denel’s Overberg Test Range (OTR) for the successful testing of a new aircraft type that will aid…
2017-07-24 Earlier, during a visit to Australia, we focused on the role of Australia in hypersonic research. "Australia has a small but cutting edge team of hypersonic researchers, and with the test ranges to play out the evolving technologies, and with significant global working relationships, Australia is at the cutting…
2017-07-23 The Australian Defence Force’s Amphibious Capability has passed an important milestone during Exercise Talisman Saber 17. For the first time, soldiers from the Amphibious Ready Group have launched an entire battle group ashore by both surface and air means. Troops from 1st battalion Royal Australian Regiment conducted an air mobile…
2017-07-23 NATO-led exercise Dynamic Mongoose took place in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland. Participants were training anti-submarine warfare (ASW) interoperability and anti-surface capabilities. Naval forces from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States participated with ships and…
The USMC came last year with their F-35Bs; and then this year the USAF came with their F-35s to a Red Flag exercise. Now the two are working together in training for fifth generation enabled air operations. The USAF perspective was provided in an article published on July 10, 2017. NELLIS…
2017-07-17 In the United States, the US Navy is the cutting edge service with regard to developing and deploying directed energy weapons technology. In part this is because ships have enough power to generate the energy necessary to operate current and next generation DE technologies. A laser has been deployed…
