2017-10-06 Information war and hybrid threats have been honed to a 21st century art form by the Russians under President Putin. But these are really early days for shaping ways to deal with the IW/hybrid threat challenge and to deal more generally with the use of military power for limited…
2017-09-26 Recently, the French, Norwegian and German Air Forces have added new tanking capabilities to their forces. And in the Norwegian and German cases did so under a collective European defense acquisition approach. In a press release dated September 7, 2017, Airbus Defence and Space noted the first flight of…
2017-10-05 Approximately 50% of the airplanes coming off of the final assembly line at Fort Worth are partner F-35s. And because of how the supply chain is designed, companies in partner states not only play a key role of that partner's plane but on the global enterprise as well. This…
10/05/2017: Capt. Michael Wehner discusses what it’s like to be an AV-8B Harrier II pilot at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Sept. 8, 2017. Harrier pilots conduct offensive and defensive anti-air warfare, including combat air patrol; armed escort missions; and offensive missions against enemy ground-to-air defenses. Wehner is assigned…
10/04/2017: The 493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron Detachment is policing Baltic air space at Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania. 09.07.2017 Defense Media Activity - Air Force
10/03/2017: The 428th Fighter Squadron saw first hand how exercises like Red Flag Nellis bring units together. During Red Flag 17-4, the squadron integrated with multiple airframes and held key leadership positions. MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, ID, UNITED STATES 08.28.2017 Video by Senior Airman Citiyah Burton 366th Fighter Wing
2017-09-26 Aurora 17 is the largest Swedish exercise in more than 20 years, and is intended to exercise Sweden’s defense capability against a larger, sophisticated opponent. According to the Swedish Ministry of Defence: In order to increase military capabilities, Swedish Armed Forces will conduct Exercise Aurora 17 – a national exercise that will…
2017-09-30 By Robbin Laird © 2017 FrontLine Defence (Vol 14, No 4) The rebuilding of Russia’s Northern fleet and its defense bastion built around the Kola Peninsula creates a direct challenge to the Norwegian area of interest. Clearly, the expanded reach of Russia into the Arctic also affects the nature of the…
