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Exercise Koolendong 16

09/08/2016
09/08/2016: U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, conduct Exercise Koolendong 16 at Bradshaw Field Training Area, Northern Territory, Australia, August 28, 2016. The Marines are part of Marine Rotational Force - Darwin and are taking part in Exercise Koolendong 16, a tri – lateral training exercise between U.S. Marines,…

Brazil: What Next?

09/08/2016
2016-09-08 By Kenneth Maxwell On August 31 Dilma Rousseff was impeached by the Brazilian senate. The vote was 61 to 20 to convict her for violating budget and fiscal responsibility laws. The outcome was unambiguous. Yet the Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court, Ricardo Lewandowski, who presided over the…

RAAF Hornets in Northern Shield Exercise

09/08/2016
09/08/2016: Exercise Northern Shield 2016 (NS16) is an Australian Defence Force (ADF) training activity where high-readiness forces deploy quickly to remote locations in Australia in response to a simulated security threat. The exercise will see members of the Navy, Army and Air Force rapidly deploy to counter a fictitious force posing…

The Software-Upgradeable Combat Aircraft: The Case of the P-8

09/07/2016
2016-09-03 By Robbin Laird A new aspect of building, modernizing and evolving the combat capabilities of the new generation of combat aircraft is software upgradeability. Software upgradeability provides a key opportunity to evolve the capabilities of an air combat platform without having to change the hardware and correlated software configurations…

On the Cusp of an Undersea Revolution: Shaping New Ways to Deal with the Threat from Mines

09/07/2016
2016-09-07 By Dr. Norman Friedman and Dr. Scott C. Truver A new epoch––autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)––promises a radical change in undersea warfare at just the time when conventional technology is becoming less and less affordable throughout the naval world. The greatest threat to warships and commercial shipping is not anti-ship missiles…

F-22 Graduates

09/07/2016
09/07/2016: Students from Tyndall's F-22 Basic Course, the course required to pilot the F-22, finishes with a record number of graduates. It is the largest F-22 basic class to date. The video includes comments from Capt. Troy Pierce, A-Flight commander, 43rd Fighter Squadron, Capt. Michael Koslow, student, 43rd Fighter Squadron, and Col.…