04/25/2017: The video highlights F-35s from Hill AFB, Utah, arrive at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath, England, for a training deployment And we published an interview from a visit to RAF Lakenheath April 4, 2017 which follows: During my visit to the United Kingdom in March 2017, I had a…
04/25/2017: U.S. Marines with Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) and U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 conducted the first independent Distributed STOVL Operation (DSO) by flying all ordnance, personnel, and fuel in on mission aircraft at Yuma, Ariz., April 13,2017. Marines employed the manual drive…
04/25/2017: HMAS Choules offloading troops and equipment. Amphibious ship HMAS Choules has arrived in the vicinity of the Keppel Islands to commence the offload of troops, vehicles and equipment to Yeppoon, Central Queensland. More than 850 tonnes of heavy equipment and disaster relief stores are bound for Rockhampton to assist the…
04/25/2017: April 18th marked the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders in which 16 B-25 bombers struck the Japanese mainland from the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, turning the tide of World War II. FORT MEADE, MD, UNITED STATES:04.21.2017 Video by Zachary Welch:Defense TV
2017-04-24 According to a piece published on April 24, 2017 by defenceWeb, the UN plans to cut its air logistics spend. Moving assets by air is by far the fastest way to get them where needed but it is expensive as evidenced by UN figures which show the world body…
2017-04-20 By Robbin Laird I first met Air Commodore Chipman when he was leading the initial Plan Jericho movement. He now has become Director General of Capability Planning in the RAAF and is now faced with the challenge of infusing the forward thinking represented by Plan Jericho into actual capabilities.…
2017-04-20 By Colin Clark WASHINGTON: America cannot apply Buy America provisions on a widescale basis and buy the best weapons, no matter how much President Trump and his team may feel otherwise. It’s a simple as that. All the competitors for the Air Force’s next-generation trainer, the T-X, include enormous amounts of…
2017-04-22 The MOD has negotiated a new £1.4 billion contract for the Royal Navy’s new attack submarine, the sixth in a total fleet of seven, which will protect the UK’s new aircraft carriers and nuclear deterrent. The submarine, named Agamemnon, is part of the Astute Class, the largest, most advanced and…
