Yearly Archive: 2020

Australia’s $45 billion frigate program could be delayed for up to two years, with top-level naval shipbuilding experts advising the Morrison government there has been schedule “slippage” with the project.

The delay risks triggering another so-called “valley of death” for Adelaide’s shipbuilding …

PARIS — The Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, travels today, Thursday, September 17, to Air Base 105 in Evreux, Normandy, where she will welcome German Minister of Defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of the Franco-German C-130J tactical t…

RAF MARHAM, England — Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 deployed for training to Royal Air Force Marham in the early evening of 03 September, 2020. Pilots from the “Wake Island Avengers” flew more than six F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona to MCA…

BLACK SEA — Following operations in the Adriatic Sea, U.S. Navy and NATO units again conducted a joint maritime and air training mission in the Black Sea, Sept. 15, 2020.

The Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), one U.S. Navy P-8 Maritime Patrol Reconnaissance Ai…

The Air Force will organize the Ruska 20 air operations exercise on 28 September ‒ 6 October 2020. More than 60 aircraft and about 4,800 people from all over Finland will take part in the year’s main war exercise in the defense branch. The Swedish Air Force is also involved in the exercise.

Ruska…

EGLIN AFB, Fla. — Deep within Eglin’s range, rapid, powerful gunfire reverberated across the expanse beginning Aug. 17. Live fire testing began for the HH-60W Jolly Green II’s three primary weapons.

The goal of the ground testing was to verify the weapons systems functionality, accuracy, and t…