Posts in category Support & Sustainment

(Source: Airbus Helicopter) – Airbus awarded contract to retrofit 26 Bundeswehr CH-53 helicopters • Obsolescence management will ensure that the fleet remains in service until …

(Bridget Butler Millsaps – 3dprint.com) – India: Dassault Systèmes Continues to Encourage Youth & Startups in 3D Printing Dassault Systèmes obviously has a strong world …

UDT Asia took place on 17 – 18 January 2017 in Singapore. To maximise engagement opportunities, the event ran in parallel with MilSim Asia, AOC …

(Source: Clare Scott – 3dprint.com) Researchers 3D Print Kidney Phantoms to Determine Optimal Radiation Dosage for Patients With certain diseases, you often hear people say …

On Wednesday (16 December 2015) NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, Mr. Patrick Auroy and the First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and …

(Text and photo by Murielle Delaporte) – Air Power At Its Best: «  Operating Together As One Team »   Three Historical Wingbrothers « The …

A Roundtable With General Mercier – As he embarked the Allied Command Transformation’s “fast train”, as he describes it, barely two weeks ago, General Denis …

On September 30th, 2015, a change of command ceremony took place in Norfolk, Virginia, during which NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg presided over the official …

(www.army.mil – By 1st Lt. Stefan Gazda) US, French Foreign Legion paratroopers conduct combined training in Corsica CALVI, France (Sept. 21, 2015) — Paratroopers, assigned …

By Robbin Laird (ww.sldforum.com) – During a visit to Australia in August 2015, there was a chance to get updates on the KC-30A and its role within the RAAF from a number of senior leaders of the RAAF. Their perspectives on actual operational deployment validated the expectations of the USAF leadership when they selected the tanker in 2008.

(Abstracts – CSIS.org) Budgets and Bullets: Taking Stock of the Afghan Security Forces, John F. Sopko (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)) ‘s Speech to the Center …

 Déclaration de Fernando Alonso, directeur général de l’activité Military Aircraft d’Airbus Defence and Space: Fernando Alonso demande aux medias de patienter un peu, le temps …

(BBC.com) – Russian spacecraft ‘to fall back to Earth on Friday’ A Russian spacecraft that has been out of control since launching last week will …

Afghan security forces have suffered record casualties this year as they combat Taliban rebels…

(From navytimes.com) – By Meghann Myers – Navy ships escorting U.S.-flagged merchants in strait
Navy ships in the Persian Gulf are accompanying U.S.-flagged merchant vessels through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran’s recent seizure of one cargo ship and its harassment of another in international waters.

(From OPS) By Murielle Delaporte – Djibouti is uniquely located « near a tectonic triple junction, where three tectonic plates meet: African, Arabian and Somali », …