11/15/2017: Brazilian Marines, Norwegian Army Soldiers and U.S. Marines stage their gear and prepare for further operations during Exercise Bold Alligator 17 at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Oct. 28, 2017. BA 17, now in its seventh iteration, is a large-scale, multinational amphibious exercise designed to showcase complex shaping operations to improve U.S.…
11/14/17 WESTERN PACIFIC (Nov. 12, 2017) USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Strike Groups are underway and conducting operations in international waters as part of a three-carrier strike force exercise. 3 Carrier Exercise in Western Pacific (2) from SldInfo.com on Vimeo.…
2017-11-10 By Robbin Laird The F-35 undergoes final assembly and checkout at three plants around the world – in Italy, in Japan and in Fort Worth, Texas. The Italian and Japanese lines are low rate production lines whereas the Fort Worth line is the high rate production facility. The Fort Worth…
2017-11-11 The first F-35s have arrived in Norway as the Norwegian Air Force stands up its initial training capability. According to an article published November 10, 2017 on the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, the ceremony welcoming the new addition to the Norwegian Defence Force was highlighted. Rain, sun, wind and…
2017-11-10 By Robbin Laird The transformation of Marine Corps aviation and with innovations in terms of the ability of the Marines to operate at greater distance, speed and more effectively in distributed operations began with the Osprey. The F-35B is now being added to the force and it provides, sensing,…
2017-11-12 An important aspect of the F-35 final assembly facility in Fort Worth is the capability to produce three variants of the aircraft on the same assembly line. Now that capability has been demonstrated off of the Italian line as the first F-35B built outside of the United States came…
11/11/2017: Landing Support Specialists with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa, conduct helicopter support team drills with an MV-22C Osprey at Morón Air Base, Spain, Oct. 4, 2017. SPMAGTF-CR-AF deployed to conduct limited crises-response and theatre-security operation in Europe and North Africa. MORóN AIR BASE, MORóN, SPAIN 10.03.2017 Video by Sgt.…
2017-11-11 At the recent NATO Defense Ministers meeting held on November 8, 2017 in Brussels, the Ministers decided to modernize the NATO command structure. As a story published on November 8, 2017 by Radio Free Europe noted: NATO defense ministers have endorsed a plan to establish two new military headquarters designed…
