2014-02-28 Second Line of Defense is currently visiting the Pacific and soon will visit the Wedgetail squadron, which currently operates from RAAF Base Williamtown, near Newcastle, New South Wales. During the exercise AWACS and Wedgetail played the core command and control role and F-22s in Alaska (which includes one flown by…
02/27/2014:A video showing the Osprey in flight using its forward propellers and moving to land on the USS George HW Bush. U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), fly an MV-22 Osprey aircraft from the USS Bataan (LHD 5) to the USS…
02/25/2014: In this video insert from an interview conducted at PACAF at Hickam AFB on February 24, 2014, Jim Silva, Deputy Director, Logistics (A4D), discusses the parts sharing arrangement between the US and the Aussies with regard to the C-17. Credit: Second Line of Defense
02/25/2014: In an interview conducted at Hickam AFB in Hawaii with Col. Mickey Addison, Director of Installations and Mission Support or the PACAF command engineer (A7), the Colonel discusses the places versus places approach to logistics for PACAF. He emphasized the important role of exercises in shaping ways to support…
02/25/2014: The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, homeported in Seattle, made a scheduled port call in Honolulu, as it transits to conduct missions in the Antarctic. The Polar Star departed Seattle Dec. 3 for Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze for the first time since 2006 with the vital…
2014-02-23 By Maj General (Retd) PK Chakravorty Israel and India India are intense strategic partners. Both countries were created at approximately the same time and despite different perceptions have all along been reliable partners. The creation of Israel was opposed by Mahatma Gandhi but the erstwhile Jansangh (present Bharatiya Janta Party)…
2014-02-17 By Harald Malmgren ECB President Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to defend the Euro is simply not meaningful without German support. When Draghi brought forward his Ordinary Monetary Transactions (OMT) concept as available under the mandate of the ECB to maintain monetary stability, the Bundesbank promptly sent…
2014-02-24 The Asian market is a growing and significant one for the global arms industry. But it is also a highly competitive one. This article from our partner defenceWeb highlights a recent agreement between Denel and Malysia which illustrates the evolving global situation in the arms markets. Denel Aerostructures signs…
