The Navy and Marine Corps deployed thousands of sailors and Marines to the southern Caribbean on Friday in support of anti-drug cartel operations.
The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit set sail out of Naval Station Norfolk on Aug. 14. The force includes more than 4,500 sailors and Marines on three ships: The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, the USS Iwo Jima, and San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships the USS San Antonio and USS Fort Lauderdale.
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Australia will invest in distribution with a new A$1.5bn contract but the military must also shore up its transportation infrastructure.
KNL has secured a joint procurement order for the supply of CNHF Manpack radios to the Finnish FDF and the Swedish FMV.
America’s purchase of Alaska in 1867 was a bizarre land deal between two countries. It was either hated or ridiculed across most of the world. But now, Russian nationalists want their long-lost icebox.
Yes, really. Russian nationalists are saying that Putin should come home from his Alaska visit with a very imperial present for the Russian people. They either claim the land of Alaska was leased, not sold, or that a Russian diplomat bribed American lawmakers, or that the Russian Tsar didn’t follow the law of the sale, or some other excuse.
The US State Department has given its approval for a potential $500m FMS of M142 HIMARS and associated support to Bahrain.
The Belarusian Air Force has received a new batch of Su-30SM2 fighter aircraft from Russia, which reportedly completes a contract signed for 12 of the aircraft. The Su-30SM2 is the only post-Soviet fighter class procured by the country, and was reportedly selected to provide high levels of interoperability with Russian Aerospace Forces and Russian Navy units, which deploy the aircraft in significant numbers both on the mainland and in Kaliningrad.
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For presence missions, the Marine Corps has a comfort zone with the MEU(SOC) concept after several decades years of refining the organization, tactics, and techniques
Richard Thomas, Airforce Tech.
U.S.-based military flight training company Red 6 announced the award of a contract by the U.S.
Peter Mitchell, RealClearDefense
Modernizing existing platforms isn’t as flashy as new, expensive programs, but they bring no less capability to the fight
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The test involved using the quadcopter to illuminate ground targets with a laser designator, enabling the stealth fighter to release and guide four inert GBU-12 Paveway…