Fifth Generation Warfare Capabilities Arrive For a USMC Combined Arms Exercise

12/12/2015
2015-12-12 While the Air Combat Command is holding an exercise with F-22s, Typhoons and Rafales at Langley AFB to shape fifth generation warfare integration, the Marines are bringing fifth generation warfare capabilities to close air support. F-35B Expeditionary from SldInfo.com on Vimeo. During our visit to Denmark to participate in a unique…

Successful SM-3 Test by the US and Japan Completed

12/12/2015
12/12/2015: The Japan Ministry of Defense (MOD) Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, announced the successful completion of a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA flight test from the Point Mugu Sea Range, San Nicolas Island, California. This…

Nuclear Propulsion for Indian Carriers?

12/12/2015
2015-12-12 By Gulshan Luthra The Indian Navy’s Design Bureau is considering nuclear propulsion for future Indian aircraft carriers. Although the final decision is yet to be taken, reliable sources told India Strategic that the Navy and the country’s nuclear scientists have drawn sufficient experience from their success in installing nuclear propulsion…

Norwegian Naval Exercise Flotex: Operating in the High North

12/11/2015
2015-12-11 According to an article on the Norwegian Ministry of Defense website: Norway's naval exercise Flotex might be the most beautiful of all military exercises, at least when it comes to surroundings.  The annual naval exercise is held every autumn, and this year in Northern Norway's breath-taking landscape of fjords, mountains and, of course,…

The Indian Navy to Modernize Its Helos: Negotiating Purchase of Sikrosky S-70Bs

12/09/2015
2015-12-09 By Gulshan Luthra Dateline New Delhi Ministry of Defence (MoD) sources told India Strategic that although the helicopters were selected in December 2014, there were some issues over cost escalations due to the delay in the procurement process, and the US company’s insistence that it could not hold the…