05/11/2017: The Navy (All Hands Magazine) and U.S. Marine Corps team officially wrapped up the Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017 this month at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. Marines and sailors field-tested more than 50 new technologies, everything from swarming unmanned surface vessels to self-driving…
2017-05-05 By Todd Miller I had a chance to fly with Red Air during Atlantic Trident 2017. The key Red Air platform was the F-15, and the strike eagle has a long and distinguished combat history. As Kyle Mizokami has noted about the Strike Eagle: For nearly three decades, the…
2017-05-06 Editor's Note: Ed Timperlake published a story on April 29, 2017 in anticipation of the commemorative dinner to be held in New York City on May 5th, 2017 and that article is republished below. But we wanted to update the context within which the article was written as the dinner…
2017-05-10 There has been no more disruptive set of changes since the Thatcher revolution than the Brexit vote and the coming of Prime Minister May. With the Brexit vote, the British public as set in a revolution of its own. This vote led to the resignation of Prime Minister Cameron…
2017-05-04 The first trilateral exercise involving fifth generation aircraft with Typhoons and Rafales was held in December 2015. In a piece published on the French Air Force website on December 16, 2015, a brief overview of the exercise was provided. According to General Creux: “the key challenge was to get our…
05/09/2017: U.S. Marines from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 perform preflight operational checks on a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, May 4, 2017. Northern Edge, Alaska’s largest and premier joint training exercise, is designed to enhance interoperability among the services and ensure service members…
05/08/2017: The latest generation of US fighter jets have started training over continental Europe. The move is part of an effort to reassure NATO Allies amid tensions with Russia.
Two US Air Force F-35 fighter jets have arrived in Estonia. It’s the first time the aircraft has taken part in training over…
2017-05-02 By Robbin Laird During my most recent trip to Australia, the focus was upon how to shape an integrated ADF moving forward. During my interviews surrounding the Williams Foundation seminar on that theme, I have had the chance to talk to key decision makers in shaping a way ahead.…
