By Lockheed Martin on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

As U.S. forces prepare to depart Afghanistan, the Afghan Air Force and the Afghan National Army are integrating air and ground forces to conduct combat fire support and logistics missions as they keep growing and lead operations. On Sept. 18, three Afghan National Army fire support officers and two staff officers with the 4th Infantry Brigade, 203rd Corps, conducted an air-to-ground integration, or AGI, exercise near Hunter Base in eastern Afghanistan. The Afghan National Army, or ANA, soldiers successfully coordinated with two Afghan Mi-35 helicopters. They conducted live-fire drills, including easy methods to abort a mission. The AGI exercise, portion... Read More »

The US Air Force is unable to take care of with a growing demand for pilots able to operating drones, partly as a consequence of a shortage of volunteers, in step with a brand new study. Despite the significance put on the burgeoning robotic fleet, drone operators face a scarcity of opportunities for promotion to raised ranks and the army has did not identify and cultivate this new category of aviators, Air Force Colonel Bradley Hoagland wrote inside the report published for the Brookings Institution think tank. In 2012, the Air Force had a goal to coach 1,129 “traditional” pilots... Read More »

By Saab on Monday, September 23rd, 2013

Swiss voters will head to the ballot box Sunday to make a decision whether to abolish their conscript army, as much part of the Alpine nation’s image as direct democracy, chocolate and cheese. Countries across Europe have ditched the draft within the twenty years because the end of the Cold War, and pro-change campaigners say Switzerland should head an identical way. But pollsters forecast the anti-conscription referendum — spearheaded by pacifists, backed by left-wing parties, and opposed by the correct, parliament and the govt. — will fall flat. A survey last week gave it only 31 percent support. A vote... Read More »