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Russia Adds Two New Missile Frigates to its Med Fleet

Russia Adds Two New Missile Frigates to its Med Fleet

SEVASTOPOL, Crimea — The Black Sea Fleet’s Project 11356 frigates Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Essen, armed with Kalibr-NK cruise missiles, are preparing for their deployment in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the Russian Navy’s standing taskforce, a naval source told TASS on Tuesday.

“The …

German Sub U35 Sails Home After 4-Month Mission in Med

German Sub U35 Sails Home After 4-Month Mission in Med

On Friday, October 15th at 10 am, the submarine “U 35” will return from the EU mission
“Irini” under the command of Corvette Captain Oliver Brux (34).

Operation “Irini” of the European Union is tasked with monitoring and enforcing the arms embargo against Libya, but also disrupting smuggling ac…

B-1B Bombers and Allied Fighters Train Together In Baltic Region

B-1B Bombers and Allied Fighters Train Together In Baltic Region

RAMSTEIN, Germany – Two US B-1 Bombers integrated with Allied fighters and practised close air support techniques with Allied Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) in Lithuania before returning to RAF Fairford, UK on October 11.

Danish and Portuguese aircraft escorted the U.S. B-1 bombers dur…

DARPA Seeks Novel, Tunable Obscurants for Battlefield

DARPA Seeks Novel, Tunable Obscurants for Battlefield

Dispersing clouds of obscurants in battle is a common military tactic that U.S. forces use to protect themselves from detection by adversary vision and sensor systems. The problem with current obscurants, however, is that they also degrade visibility and sensor performance of friendly troops. Additi…
GA-ASI Sea Guardian Completes European Maritime Demos

GA-ASI Sea Guardian Completes European Maritime Demos

SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) completed a series of flight demonstrations that featured a company-owned MQ-9B SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in partnership with the Royal Air Force (RAF). The demonstration series began Aug. 25 and ended with the comple…
RAF Poseidon, A400M Fly to Iceland As Cooperation Increases

RAF Poseidon, A400M Fly to Iceland As Cooperation Increases

A detachment of RAF personnel were in Iceland with an Atlas A400M and a Poseidon MRA1 aircraft, as part of increased cooperation between the UK and Iceland.

After a training sortie in the Greenland, Iceland and UK Gap, the maritime patrol aircraft flew into Keflavik airbase. During the visit Air…


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