2014-07-19 Norway, India and China are all first time participants in RIMPAC 2014. According to the basic statement on the Commander of the Pacific’s website: Held every two years by Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), RIMPAC 2014 is a multinational maritime exercise that takes place in and around the Hawaiian…
2014-07-19 By Stig Jarle Hansen, Associate Senior Analyst, Risk Intelligence Overview Since the French intervention early in 2013, the Mali conflict has been a defining one for regional security. The intervention itself was successful in the short run. Territorial integrity was more or less restored by the end of 2013,…
2014-07-16 By Kenneth Maxwell With the World Cup behind them President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, President Xi Jinping of China, and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, met in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, this week for the sixth BRICS summit . BRICS is an acronym conceived…
07/16/2014: RQ-21 RPA for the USN-USMC Team [maxgallery id="67616"] The first two photos are credited to Navy Media Content Services and the next three to 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing & Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. In the first photo, the RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Air System (STUAS) is recovered…
2014-07-16 Recently, the A400M was refueled by the mulit-mission tanker, the A330MRTT for the first time. According to a press release issued by Airbus Space and Defence on July 16, 2014: Airbus Defence and Space has performed the first air-to-air refuelling of the Airbus A400M new generation airlifter from the…
2014-07-16 By Lieutenant General Ted F. Bowlds USAF (ret) To those who believe innovation inside the government, within the walls of the Pentagon bureaucracy is impossible, I am here to tell you it can happen. It requires only two ingredients. The first key ingredient is the entrepreneur, the innovator, and…
2014-07-14 By James Marconi, Military Sealift Command As RIMPAC heads into its underway phase off the coast of Hawaii, USNS Montford Point (MLP 1) tested its state-of-the-art sea basing capabilities 2,500 miles away in San Diego, as part of RIMPAC’s Southern California element. From July 8-10, Montford Point participated in…
2014-07-15 By Robbin Laird It was a pleasure when visiting the Second Marine Air Wing in June 2014, to be able to visit with the VMU-2 squadron and to get a perspective on how UAVs are part of the future of combat, and not learn that they are the future…
