The Floating US Army at RIMPAC 2014

07/04/2014
2014-07-04 Logistic Support Vessel 2 – U.S. Army Vessel CW3 Harold A. Clinger, manned by a 163rd Transportation Detachment crew, got underway from its homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on July 2 to conduct the first of eight surface lifts between Kaneohe Bay and Kawaihae Harbor in support of…

The Iraq Crisis: The Kurdish Opening

07/03/2014
2014-07-03 In a recent piece by Admiral James "Ace" Lyons, former Commander of the US Pacific Fleet, focused on what he sees as a Kurdish opportunity. There is no question that modern-day Iraq is a fractured state. This should come as no surprise, since its basic historical foundation was always weak. It…

A400M Tests Paratroop Operations

07/03/2014
07/03/2014: The A400M was originally conceived of in a world where lifters were trucks to carry cargo and troops from point A to B.  This world has totally been transformed by operations in the past decade, during which the A400M was being developed and readied for its roll out into…

The Indian Space Program Progresses: The PSLV Launches 5 Foreign Satellites From One Launch

07/02/2014
2014-07-02 India launched five satellites of four foreign countries from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre June 30 on a single launch, successfully putting them into their designated orbits in about 20 minutes. This is the first time that a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), the workhorse indigenous rocket of the…