Speaking at the TechNet Land Forces conference in Tucson, Arizona, the former commander of the 13 Marine Expeditionary Unit warned that U.S. military commanders are slowly being addicted to the full-motion video provided by ISR platforms and moving towards centralized decision-making and just-in-time decisions.
Canada has been recruiting former Royal Air Force pilots that have been laid-off and the first ex-RAF pilot has joined the RCAF in November.
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The Proton K rocket made its last flight after 45 years of service by carrying a Russian Oko-class early warning satellite into space on Mar. 30.
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Russian Air Force commander Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin announced on Friday that a new aerobatics team flying the Yak-130 will be set up by 2015.
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Boeing will tap into its experience producing FedEx’s 30 767-300F freighters to mature its production line for the KC-46.
The U.S. Navy has confirmed that the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) left Pearl Harbor on Mar. 23 but the U.S. military will not officially say the radar is being deployed to monitor North Korea’s rocket launch next month.
By end of the year, Russia will have one S-400 air defense missile system battalion deployed in the Far East.
Thales delivered the first series-produced RBE2 AESA radar to Dassault Aviation last month and Rafale C137 will be the first to have it installed.
Four South African Gripens were held back in Sweden after delivery so that they could join Swedish, Czech and Hungarian Gripens for Exercise Lion Effort.
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Tokyo has decided to deploy its F-15 fighters to protect three Aegis destroyers that are monitoring North Korea’s missile launch next month.
