Yearly Archive: 2022

XICHANG, China — China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province Wednesday.

The Tianlian II-03 satellite was launched at half hour to one o’clock Wednesday Beijing Time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.

Tianlian…

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command Forces conducted a UAS strike outside Jindayris, northwest Syria targeting two senior ISIS officials, July 12, 2022. Maher al-Agal, one of the top five ISIS leaders and the leader of ISIS in Syria, was killed in the strike. A senior ISIS official closely associat…

MOSCOW — Russia’s new state-of-the-art Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is set to undergo a new stage of tests, Head of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday.

“The world’s most powerful global-range nuclear-tipped missile is being prepared for new …

RAMSTEIN, Germany –– The Spanish and French fighter detachments currently executing NATO’s Baltic Air Policing were busy last week honing their skills and safeguarding Allied airspace.

While on July 7, the Spanish F-18 fighter jets took off from Šiauliai, Lithuania, to conduct aerial drills with…

A RAF A400M Atlas and crew from RAF Brize Norton have recently participated in Exercise Ouranos in France in which they trained to land on unprepared and natural surfaces, further demonstrating the capabilities offered by the Atlas fleet.

The Atlas aircraft and its crew underwent Natural Surface …

RAMSTEIN, Germany — On July 11, 2022, General James B. Hecker, Commander Allied Air Command (AIRCOM), handed over the command of the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force during a ceremony at the Force’s Main Operating Base in Sigonella, Italy.

The Alliance Ground Surveillance system gives co…