Six F-35A Lightning II aircraft and 63 Airmen assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing participated in a combined Agile Combat Employment exercise alongside Royal Air Force counterparts Sept. 2-6. ACE training events focus on strengthening participants’ capability to rapidly deploy from their home base and establish, as well as sustain,…
A compilation of Drone footage and voice-over interviews by Geo-Spatial integration manager Nathan Glondys and 628th Civil Engineering Squadrdon-Base Program manager Chase Barron demonstrating the Small Unmanned Aerial System (SUAS) video capturing capabilities on Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Sept. 4, 2024. SUA systems can classify landforms and collect information…
The first pillar of the Italian approach to airpower has been a clear commitment to the F-35 as a driver of change in shaping a fifth generation enabled force. The second pillar has been to build a facility to produce their own F-35s along with European allies and to place…
By Robbin Laird The Italian Air Force leadership saw early on that the F-35 was more than a next generation aircraft – it was a whole different way to look at airpower in the digital age and enabling multi-domain airpower. They committed to the aircraft and have built a fifth-generation…
U.S. Marines and Sailors with 2nd Air-Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Marine Rotational Forces Europe, under the command and control of Task Force 61/2, and members of the Finnish Defence Forces, conduct live-fire naval surface fire support training with the PGG Hamina-class missile boat during Finnish Readiness Exercise on Camp Dragsvik,…
I had the privilege of visiting Norfolk in the recent past and discussing the coming of the USS Gerald R. Ford with the first commander of Ford and then the commander of Naval Air Force Atlantic, Rear Admiral “Oscar” Meier. Last month, I had the chance to visit Norfolk once…
By Robbin Laird On 11 November 2024, I was in Rome and meeting with the Air Force Chief of Staff. Lt. General Luca Goretti. When I entered the building and walked to his office, the memory of my last visit to that office and with then COS Lt General Preziosa…
U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy corpsmen with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct an en-route care exercise aboard a UH-1Y Venom helicopter, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, July 25, 2024. The exercise was conducted to evaluate Marines and Navy corpsmen on their ability to effectively evacuate the combat casualty…
