The 19th Airlift Wing and the 317th Airlift Wing of the United States Air Force carried out the largest C-130J formation flight on Jul. 14. All 24 cargo planes were airborne in support of a Joint Forcible Entry exercise over Dyess Air Force Base and Big Bend, Texas. To reach this feat, almost all J-model C-130s […]
The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information for a new maritime strike weapon. DARPA photo / Public domain The service wants input from the industry in order to do a trade space analysis. Interested parties have until Sept. 30 to submit their proposals. For more information, hit the Source below Source
Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) is under pressure from the military to complete the Initial Operational Test & Evaluation of its Hai Chien 2 anti-air missile by this year. The navy wants to start limited production of the missile from March next year so that the Tuo Chiang-class corvettes can have […]
Media reports from South Korea says Seoul has decided that it will buy 20 F-35B stealth fighters for the phase 2 of its FX III fighter program. Sgt. 1st Class MilagrosLaura Laura [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The country bought 40 F-35A fighters under phase of the FX III. The original plan was to buy […]
Spokesperson for the Indonesian Ministry of Defense, Brig. Gen. Djoko Purwanto, told reporters that the plan to buy 15 Eurofighters from Austria was thoroughly researched. By Eugeny Polivanov (http://russianplanes.net/id169356) [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons “Everything is studied and selected before the government issues a formal purchase offer,” the general […]
USMC Commandant, David H. Berger, was quoted by Reuters as saying that the Pentagon in talks with Tokyo to bring air defense and anti-ship missile units to Okinawa U.S. Marine Corps / Public domain Berger added that those new mobile units will not result in an increase in troop numbers on the island and will […]