2014-06-29 By Robbin Laird Recently, I have had the chance to visit the USS America, interview with Ed Timperlake the head of the Military Sealift Command and to spend several days with Second Marine Air Wing, including watching the change of command for VMX-22. We will have several pieces coming…
2014-07-06 Washington/ New Delhi. The US Government has notified the Congress of a possible deal to sell 22 more Harpoon Block II anti-shipping missiles to the Indian Navy, this time for its four HDW German made Shishumar class submarines. Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which manages the government to…
2014-07-05 At a presentation in early June 2014 to the Airbus Defence and Space Trade Media briefing held in Spain,the head of the A400M Program within the company, Rafael Tentor-Aunon, noted that 90% of the flight-testing is now done with 6343 flight hours and 2278 flights conducted. And in a…
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…
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…
2014-07-01 By Robbin Laird The response to Russia’s seizure of Crimea has been disbelief, denial or condemnation. The reality is that the Russians are a nationalistic power whose leader sees the post-Soviet order as illegitimate as many Germans saw the Versailles settlement after World War I. Clearly, Putin understands that…
2014-07-03 New Delhi. INS Sahyadri, one of India's latest indigenously designed guided missile stealth frigate, has reached Pearl Harbor for the multilateral RIMPAC (Rim of Pacific) exercise with the US and other navies. This is the first time that an Indian warship is in the US waters for an exercise.…
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…
