A Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster has airdropped supplies with a combined weight of 10,470kg to Bunger Hills in Antarctica on 15 December 2022. The stores airdropped include water tanks, dome tents, trestle tables and aluminium planks, ensures the Australian Antarctic Program is able to begin preparations for a…
For the first time, Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) supported exercise Keen Sword at Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 17, 2022. NMFP personnel setup an expeditionary medical facility and established a Medical Headquarters to conduct training in support of Keen Sword 23. OKINAWA, JAPAN 11.17.2022 Video by Staff Sgt.…
By Robbin Laird The CMV-22B has been bought by the U.S. Navy as a replacement for the C-2A Greyhound aircraft to provide for the carrier on-board delivery mission for the large deck carrier fleet. The numbers of the aircraft ordered for this mission are 48 and are sized to provide…
U.S. Navy Interior Communications Electrician 1st Class Nathan Cobb, technical services manager, Hidenori Uchiyama, lead technician, with Armed Forces Network Iwakuni, and U.S. Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal technicians assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni react to a simulated missile strike event during Exercise Active…
By Robbin Laird Recently I visited San Diego and had chance to discuss with Vice Admiral Whitesell the work the Navy is doing in terms of introducing new capabilities and training for high-end operations. The Navy is introducing new capabilities onboard the large deck carriers, focusing on new concepts of…
U.S. Air Force Airmen from various units around PACAF, along with members of the Timor-Leste Defense Force, participated in Exercise Pacific Angel 22-4 in Baucau, Timor-Leste, Sep. 12-17, 2022. BAUCAU, EAST TIMOR 0 9.18.2022 Video by Airman 1st Class Breanna Christopher Volkmar Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs
In our 2013 book on Pacific defense., we argued that Japan would expand its defense perimeter in response to Chinese and Russian evolving defense and foreign policies. We argued that they would take advantage of U.S. defense modernization programs, notably the Osprey and the F-35 programs, to do so. We…
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Science and Technology Office hosted the Singapore Ministry of Defense, Future Systems and Technology Directorate sponsored demonstration of an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) featuring the AUTONOMAST system at Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), Oct. 19-26, 2022. The AUTONOMAST system developed by ST Engineering, a global technology, defense…
