Saber Strike 17

07/19/2017
2017-07-19  About 11,000 U.S. and NATO service members from 20 countries took part in the 2017 Saber Strike exercise. The exercise took place in various regions in the Baltics and Poland from May 28-June 24. Saber Strike 17 is a long-standing Joint Chiefs of Staff-directed, U.S. European Command-scheduled, U.S. Army…

Largest Amphibious Landing of Australian Since the Second World War

07/17/2017
2017-07-17  The land battle phase of Exercise Talisman Saber 2017 was launched on Thursday, 13 July 2017, with the largest amphibious landing Australian troops had been involved in since the Second World War, with troops transported ashore from an Amphibious Readiness Element including HMAS Canberra, HMAS Choules and HMNZS Canterbury.…

Australian Navy Working With Vietnam

06/06/2017
06/06/2017: Developing deeper Defence relationships with Vietnam. In 2017, the Australian Defence Force deployed a team of medical specialists to Exercise Pacific Partnership to work alongside Defence Force personnel and civilian medical practitioners from the United States, Great Britain and Japan in cities and provinces of Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and…

F-35s to Estonia

05/08/2017
05/08/2017: The latest generation of US fighter jets have started training over continental Europe. The move is part of an effort to reassure NATO Allies amid tensions with Russia.

Two US Air Force F-35 fighter jets have arrived in Estonia. It’s the first time the aircraft has taken part in training over…

Overview on SPMAGTF Southern Command Deployment

12/22/2016
12/22/2016: Wrapping up a six-month rotation, Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Southern Command (SPMAGTF-SC) re-deployed to the United States Nov. 21, 2016. With the approval of the Government of Honduras, the unit was based out of Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras from June-November, where they operated across the northern-tier of Central America…

Danish Air Force and the Counter-Piracy Mission

12/15/2016
12/15/2016: NATO’s last counter-piracy surveillance aircraft is flying her final mission, as part of Operation Ocean Shield. The Royal Danish Air Force crew of a Challenger surveillance aircraft tells us how much the coast of Somalia has changed since the height of pirate activity in the Horn of Africa. The mission…

38 Squadron Support to Exercise Croix du Sud

11/23/2016
11/23/2016: Exercise Croix du Sud (CDS) is a medium size tactical multi-national Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR), Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) and Stability and Security Operations (SASO) Field Training Exercise (FTX) being held in the vicinity of Noumea, New Caledonia from 07 – 18 November 2016. Ex CDS16 is…