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 »

A delegation from the Taiwan-US Inter-Parliamentary Amity Association of Taiwan’s Legislature said Wednesday in Washington that Taiwan desires to purchase advanced F-35 fighter jets that best suit its defense needs. Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator and Association Chairman Lin Yu-fang briefed reporters in Washington after the delegation’s meeting on the Pentagon with David Helvey, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, to talk about Taiwan’s needs for advanced defense weaponry. The delegation members, of their capacity because the Republic of China (ROC) lawmakers, also met with Gregory Kausner, deputy assistant secretary of state for regional security and arms transfers, on the... Read More »

The Maneuver Battle Lab revealed a glimpse into the long run because the Usa and North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations collaborated to apply one another’s robots in military operations. The lab conducted an interoperability experiment July 17 on the McKenna Urban Operations Complex to illustrate how U.S., Turkish and German technical developers could use their respective controllers and integrated software to share and operate other country’s unmanned ground systems to finish tactical tasks. Jim Parker, associate director of Ground Vehicle Robotics on the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center in Warren, Mich., said the usage of unmanned ground systems... Read More »