2014-08-20 Earlier this year we published a Special Report on the modernization of Australian Air Power. The RAAF started by adding C-17s and then KC-30As, as there concern is range and sustainability both for the region their in and for global engagements. [caption id="attachment_62974" align="alignnone" width="300"] C-17 and KC-30A at…
08/20/2014: The French and the Marines have a special relationship forged in war. Marines with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, present Marines new to the unit with the French Fourragere during a ceremony at Camp Lejeune, N.C., June 19, 2014. The…
2014-08-20 By defenceWeb The Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding company has launched the first of three new C28A corvettes for Algeria, which will be delivered in mid-2015. The vessel was launched near Shanghai on August 16, according to Naval Recognition, and will be delivered in May next year. Algeria in March 2012 signed…
08/19/2014: U.S. Central Command provides an update on U.S. airstrikes on ISIL targets near Mosul, Iraq over the weekend Credit: DOD News:8/18/14
08/19/2014: The Navy's unmanned X-47B conducts flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The aircraft completed a series of tests demonstrating its ability to operate safely and seamlessly with manned aircraft. Credit: Navy Media Content Services:8/17/14 And from a piece published by our partner AUVSI: The…
08/18/2014: U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Terry G. Robling, Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC), relinquishes command to Lt. Gen. John A. Toolan Jr. during the MARFORPAC change of command ceremony, on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, August 15, 2014. Lt. General Toolan served as the I Marine…
08/17/2014: Canadian Sailors aboard the HMCS Summerside conduct a Mediterranean Mooring maneuver during exercise Tradewinds at Las Calderas Naval Base, Dominican Republic, June 19, 2014. Tradewinds 2014 is a joint combined exercise conducted in order to build partner nation counter-transnational organized crime missions and humanitarian aid and disaster response operations…
08/17/2014: The USS America is in transit to San Diego and then on to San Francisco for its official commissioning in October. In transit, the crew is training and fitting out the ship. In this slideshow, some of the many skills being learned and applied at sea are highlighted, and…