India’s First Nuclear Attack Submarine begins Its Sea Trials

12/16/2014
2014-12-16 By Gulshan Luthra New Delhi. India’s first nuclear attack submarine Arihant began Sea Trials on December 15th with naval personnel and defense scientists onboard showing both caution and confidence. The 80-mw boat sailed out of the Shipbuilding Centre (SBC) at the Naval Dockyard in Vishakhapatnam in the morning, smoothly exiting the…

PLA(N) and USN Cooperation in Counter-Piracy Operations

12/16/2014
12/16/2014: Chinese Harbin Z-9E helicopter practices landing aboard the U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104). Sterett and ships from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (Navy) PLA(N) commenced a bilateral counter-piracy exercise, U.S.-China Counter-Piracy Exercise 15, in the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa. Aiming to promote…

Standing Up European F-35 Sustainment Centers

12/13/2014
2014-12-13 The F-35 is not an airplane, but an air system. And one which will be global in character. Operationally, the impact of an integrated F-35 fleet will be significant. And no less so will be the global sustainment possibilities inherent in the program. The program has built in a…