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Aviation, vehicle fatalities decrease in 2011
Now more than ever, leaders from the squad up through the chain of command “get” safety and its importance to the mission. Leaders have gotten back to the basics of leadership, becoming more involved in pre-combat checks and inspections, taking a more active role in training, and simply ensuring every standard is met, every time. [...]
Logistics withdrawal headache for US in Afghanistan
The US Army faces a logistics nightmare in the repatriation of military equipment worth more than $30 billion from Afghanistan, a senior official said Tuesday. “I can always wish that Afghanistan was a coastline country and had a great port and that would be very easy but… it’s not,” the official told a press conference. [...]
Myanmar president reaffirms army role
Myanmar’s nominally-civilian president sought to reaffirm the status of the country’s military on Wednesday, giving credit to the army and the former junta for recent political reform gestures. On the country’s independence day former general Thein Sein stressed the importance of Myanmar’s “Tatmadaw” military, which relinquished direct control over the impoverished nation last year after [...]
Pilots train on new AH-64D Apache helicopter
A new helicopter is coming to the Block. The 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, is the first unit in the Army to have their entire fleet of Apache helicopters replaced with the comprehensively upgraded Apache (AH-64D) Block III beginning in February. “There are new components to the [...]
European garrisons protecting Army communities with virtual training
In December, the United States Army Garrison Grafenwoehr teamed-up with the Joint Multinational Training Command’s Simulation Center to host the garrison’s annual force protection exercise. However, the exercise took place without closing down roads, facilities or causing any inconvenience to the Grafenwoehr community. The annual training requirement was met using a virtual reality. The JMTC’s [...]
Army to Deploy Vertical Take-Off UAS
The U.S. Army is using a hybrid-type acquisition approach to develop a helicopter-like, Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing Unmanned Aerial System with a so-called ARGUS wide-area surveillance sensor suite designed to beam back information and images of the surrounding terrain, service officials said. Beginning in May or June of 2012, the Army will deploy three Boeing-built A160 Hummingbird Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing [...]
India Issues Year End Defence Review
India issues year end review of defence projects and milestones in indigenous defence R&D during the Year 2011 NEW WEAPONS The successful test launch of the 3,500 km range Agni-IV Ballistic Missile on Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011 was the highlight of the year. A press conference was organised the next day, viz Wednesday, Nov 16, [...]
Army aiming for vehicle-based Common Operating Environment
On the dynamic and complex battlefield, the Common Operating Environment will streamline communications between Soldiers in vehicles and higher headquarters, creating seamless interoperability between the computers, sensors and applications they use. Developed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, known as ASA (ALT), in October 2010, the [...]
New system delivers water, fuel to Soldiers
Everyone knows that without water and fuel, the modern Army would grind to a halt in the field. Throughout military history, the challenge has been to deliver enough of those two precious commodities to the front lines to keep Soldiers moving. That continues to be an issue today in Afghanistan, where unforgiving terrain, weather, political [...]
