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…
2017-07-19 San Diego, CA Mr. Ritesh Patel discusses the new approach to developing, testing, integrating and deploying software systems for the Navy while working at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific). SSC Pacific is accelerating warfighter advantage through science, engineering and discovery. SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES 07.05.2017…
2017-07-19 Recently, the UK, Norway and the US signed an agreement to work together on ASW in the North Atlantic, which will leverage the joint acquisition of the P-8 aircraft. This agreement and the evolution of the aircraft is yet another example of the US and its allies standing up…
