2017-03-15 According to an MBDA press release dated March 15, 2017, the F-35 successfully conducted its first firings of MBDA’s ASRAAM. The F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet has successfully conducted its first firing trials of the MBDA Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM). The trials are the first time a…
03/15/2017: Exercise OCEAN EXPLORER 17 (OE17) is a major Fleet training activity led by the Royal Australian Navy, Exercise Ocean Explorer and jointly-enabled by the Royal Australian Air Force and other nations’ forces. The maritime exercise is one of the largest iterations of the exercise held in the West Australian Exercise…
03/07/2017: The first group of USAF F22s arrived at RAAF Tindal ahead of the first Enhanced Air Cooperation activity in Australia under the US Force Posture Initiatives. The F22s are operating from RAAF Base Tindal and are the largest and longest rotation of fifth-generation aircraft to visit Australia to date. The…
2017-03-13 According to an article published on the Australian Navy website on March 13, 2017 and written by Lt. Todd Fitzgerald, the Australian fleet has brought HMAS Sirius back on line. The Royal Australian Navy’s replenishment capability is operating at capacity once again with HMAS Sirius back in the brine after four…
2017-03-12 There are many ways to burden share within NATO. An especially good one is to enhance operational support through joint investments and joint support commands. This is clearly the case with the European Air Transport Command. The European Air Transport Command (EATC) is the command centre that exercises the…
2017-03-07 We have written earlier about the coming of THAAD to South Korea. The Chinese hostile reaction to the deployment tells us more about Chinese intentions with regard to their use of nuclear weapons, than it does about any legitimate diplomatic concerns, which they might have. As Danny Lam has…
2017-03-12 As NATO nations rework their defense strategies to deal with evolving threats, clearly the question is investment in relevant capabilities. This means that although a % criterion for investment is certainly part of the equation, it is not the only criterion. For NATO nations clearly it is the effective contribution…
2017-03-06 By Richard Weitz According to the China Ministry of Finance, the declared defense budget of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) now exceeds one trillion yuan, up from last year’s figure of 950 billion yuan. The declared sum of 1.044 trillion yuan amounts to some $151 billion on international…
