By Robbin Laird I have had the opportunity over the years to visit what I refer as the defense arc from the UK through the Nordics to the Balts to Poland. The CEO of Risk Intelligence, Hans Tino Hansen, has been a key guide to thinking through the process of…
By Pierre Tran Paris - Indonesia ordered on Feb. 10, 2022, 42 Dassault Aviation Rafale fighter jets and missiles in a package worth $8.1 billion, with delivery of a first batch of six units in 2025, a French defense official said. “The chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, Eric Trappier,…
By Pierre Tran Paris - France would do well to discard Germany as a military and industrial partner and strike out on its own, Vauban, an anonymous group of defense specialists, said Jan. 24 in La Tribune, a French business news website. “Three years after the signature of the Aix le…
VRM-30 explains and demonstrates the safety procedures required of passengers onboard a CMV-22 Osprey. The CMV-22 Osprey replaces the C-2A Greyhound as the Navy's aircraft for carrier onboard delivery (COD). 03.01.2021 Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lily Gebauer Navy Public Affairs Support Element West
U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 366 train in Brunswick, Maine, Dec. 10, 2021. Marines with HMH-366 exercised expeditionary advanced base operations and cold-weather techniques and procedures in an unfamiliar environment by performing touch-and-go landings and low-altitude maneuvers in CH-53E Super Stallions. HMH-366 is a subordinate unit of…
By Robbin Laird I have followed the progress of the Wedgetail since my first visits to Australia starting in 2014. This was a unique Australian capability which took time to shape and to integrate into their evolving fifth generation concepts of operations. But they have done so and are further…
The evolution of the Viper Attack Helicopter is part of the USMC's ongoing transformation. The coming of Link 16 and Full Motion Video is a key part of that change. As we noted with regard to this development: As the US Navy reworks how it is operating as a distributed…
F-18's from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 arrive at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. 12.23.2021 Video by Staff Sgt. Christina Graves 378th Air Expeditionary Wing
