2015-03-07 According to the February 2015, Japan Defense Focus published by the Japanese Ministry of Defence, there has be a significant increase in scrambles by the ASDF in 2014 compared to 2013. And the cause? No surprise here: incursions by the Russians and the Chinese. The ASDF scrambled 744 times…
2015-03-06 The Royal Navy is building two large deck aircraft carriers. This ship and the USS America are two ships built specifically with the F-35B in mind. The Queen Elizabeth will have its sea trials next year, and construction is moving apace on the Prince of Wales. According to a…
2015-03-06 Recently an Atlas A400M of the French Air Force flew to the United Arab Emirates to deliver cargo to the French military. According, to the FAF: The A400M demonstrates a bit more each day its extraordinary capacity for projection. It can fulfill this type of mission without stoping…
2015-03-06 On March 2, 2015, the A400M Atlas touched down in French Polynesia. Currently, the French forces use two CN-235s to provide the means to link up with the five Polynesian archipelagos. There is a French Air Force detachment of 190 at Tahiti's Faa'a airfield. The flight from New Caledonia…
2015-03-06 The Tornado is being phased out in favor of the Typhoon. To do this, will require the Typhoon subsuming the close air support role of the Tornado. The key to achieving this transition is the incorporation of all of the weapons currently deployed by the Tornado being integrated by…
2015-02-28 By Ed Timperlake Ireland is a nation that has experienced great joy in celebrating the written word along with great sadness and tragedy during their many times of trouble. The Irish love of poetry and music is in their human essence as is a feistiness and undaunted courage about…
03/06/2015: Airmen from the 34th Aircraft Maintenance Unit maintaining the B-1B Lancer at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Credit:379th Air Expeditionary Wing:2/25/15 In a story by Patrick Megahan published on Augusut 29, 2014: As the air war over northern Iraq expanded earlier this month, Pentagon officials for first time acknowledged that…
03/05/2014: MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, take off from the flight deck of the forward deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Credit: Navy Media Content Services:12/15/14
