DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas: The 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron successfully completed their first captive carry test of a protracted Range Anti-Ship Missile on-board a B-1 Bomber June 17, marking a big breakthrough toward the B-1′s role within the maritime environment. Designed and developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research, the LRASM is predicated off the Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile Extended Range and was constructed as a part of an effort to conquer challenges faced by current anti-ship missiles penetrating sophisticated enemy air defense systems. “This is a huge stepping... Read More »

Algeria’s army has reinforced its forces along the eastern border with Tunisia, Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday, days after the killing of eight Tunisian soldiers. The soldiers were found on Monday with their throats cut after being ambushed by jihadist militants in Mount Chaambi, a neighborhood near the border with Algeria. Algeria’s army “reinforced its resources and capabilities at the eastern border of the rustic due to troubles that Tunisia goes through,” Kablia told the national news agency APS. Tunisian troops have intensified their hunt for an armed group inside the Mount Chaambi area because the spring,... Read More »

Less than three months after the last F-4 phantom II departed from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group for drone conversion, maintainers listed here are already turning the wrenches on Air Combat Command’s fourth generation of aerial targets, the F-16 Fighting Falcon. With AMARG’s entire F-16 regeneration team gathered to document the development on July 1, Col. Robert Lepper, AMARG Commander, took the chance to congratulate workers for being ready and ready to transition so quickly from the F-4 to the F-16. “Each and each one in all you is significantly contributing to the longer term success of our... Read More »

Germany has started withdrawing its soldiers and material from Afghanistan. The move poses an amazing logistical challenge and also will be expensive. Despite the Bundeswehr’s experience in overseas assignments, getting its equipment out of Afghanistan will prove to be an unprecedented logistical challenge. Per information provided by the German military, it’ll should remove around 1,200 armored vehicles and four,800 shipping containers jam-packed with weapons, ammunition, computers and other materials back to Germany by the tip of 2014. Small military camps comparable to the only in northeastern Faizabad, have already been dismantled previously few months. Now German soldiers in Kunduz have... Read More »

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress today of a potential Foreign Military Sale to Iraq of fifty M1135 Stryker Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicles and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $900 million. The Government of Iraq has requested a potential sale of fifty M1135 Stryker Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicles, DECON 3000 Decontamination Systems, M26 Commercial Joint Service Transportable Decontamination Systems (JSTDS),AN/VRC-89 Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems (SINCGARS) with Global Positioning System (GPS), AN/VRC-90 SINCGARS with GPS,M40A1Protective Masks, Lightweight Personal Chemical Detectors LCD-3, Portable Chemical Warfare Agent Detectors... Read More »