The final Red Flag iteration of 2021, Red Flag 21-3, will be led by the 1st Fighter Wing and will feature over 20 different airframes and welcome nearly 2,200 participants from across the country. The 414th Combat Training Squadron conducts Red Flag to provide mission commanders, maintenance personnel, ground controllers,…
By Pierre Tran Paris - Onera and European missile builder MBDA are due to conduct the first test flight of a full-scale prototype of a French hypersonic cruise missile in the U.S., with help from NASA and the U.S. Air Force, an official of the French research agency said July…
Exercise Sea Explorer is the 2nd of 3 exercises in the annual Sea Series to hone and certify Australia’s Amphibious Forces. The first exercise, Sea Horizon, was a planning exercise in preparation for the subsequent Sea Explorer and Raider exercises. During Exercise Sea Explorer, almost 1800 soldiers, sailors and aviators aboard…
U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, participate in egress training in the CH-53K "King Stallion" at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, April 28, 2021. Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX) is training Marines on the CH-53K to improve proficiency and familiarize all…
ARABIAN GULF (July 10, 2021) Sailors assigned to the Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) chock and chain a UH-1Y Huey, attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 162 (Reinforced), during flight operations in the Arabian Gulf, July 10, 2021. Carter Hall is deployed to the…
by 1st Lt. Charles Allen MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. – (July 7, 2021) Marines with 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing begin Exercise Summer Fury 21 with a long-range maritime strike off the coast of Washington. Summer Fury is the largest Marine aviation exercise on the West Coast, and provides 3rd …
By Robbin Laird Recently, I had a chance to talk with Captain Dewon “Chainsaw” Chaney, the Commander of COMVRMWING (or Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Wing). My last conversation was in April of this year, and the first one last year. With the CMV-22B to be first deployed on the USS Carl…
US military personnel completed the first ever Patriot surface-to-air missile firing on Australian soil at Shoalwater Bay, Queensland, as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2021(TS21). Held every two-years. TS21 is the largest bilateral training activity between Australia and the United States, and is aimed at testing Australian interoperability with the…
