HMAS Toowoomba provided support to International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC) and Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) coalition partners in the Middle East Region as part of the Ship’s six-month deployment on Operation MANITOU. Toowoomba’s Ship’s Company supported both the IMSC and the CMF as part of the Australian Defence Force’s contribution…
Aircraft aboard amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) conduct flight operations. America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is seen operating in the 7th Fleet area of operations. PHILIPPINE SEA 04.05.2020 Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Vance Hand USS America (LHA 6)
By Robbin Laird As we work through force structure change to deal with the new strategic environment, terms like C2, ISR and training are being changed significantly. New concepts of operations are being shaped, with modifications of existing platforms to play new roles and responsibilities, and new platforms being designed…
U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornets with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 perform aerial refueling with a KC-130J Super Hercules, attached to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152, off the coast of Japan, April 28, 2020. F/A-18C Hornets refuel in the air to increase their operational range and enhance the Marine…
By Robbin Laird With integratability comes an opportunity to shape a kill web approach to platform modernization. It is a question of how the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and what each platform not only can contribute to the whole, but what it needs to be…
By Samuel King Jr., Team Eglin Public Affairs / Published June 01, 2020 EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. A typical F-15E Strike Eagle munition-testing sortie changed drastically here recently in terms of how mission data moved across the Air Force Test Center enterprise. The 96th Test Wing’s personnel used distributed test…
A F-16C flown by Maj Jeffrey Entine, 85th Flight Test Squadron test pilot, fires a rocket at a test drone at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Dec. 12, 2019. This test successfully demonstrated shooting a small drone at low altitudes. EGLIN AFB, FL, UNITED STATES 12.19.2019 Video by 1st Lt.…
By Robbin Laird I have been focusing in a series of articles on the mobile basing role of the USMC within the evolving maritime kill web approach. Earlier articles highlighted key requirements to perform expeditionary basing, as well as challenges facing sustainment and support for such a force. A key…
