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Saudi Arabia to purchase 84 F-15SA, upgrade current F-15 fleet
Air Force officials announced the next chapter in a partnership with the Royal Saudi Air Force as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently signed a $29.4 billion Foreign Military Sales Letter of Offer and Acceptance solidifying their plans to purchase 84 F-15SA fighter aircraft and upgrade their current fleet of 70 F-15S aircraft to the [...]
Iran to test-fire missiles in strategic oil waterway
Tehran said it will test-fire missiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, a move likely to stoke tensions with Washington already running high over Iran’s threats to close the strategic oil waterway if sanctions are enforced. “Shorter- and longer-range, ground-to-sea, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles will be tested on Saturday,” the ISNA news agency quoted [...]
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 [...]
Sniper classmates break culture barriers
No matter which country’s uniform Soldiers wear, the challenges they face and the triumphs they enjoy are often the same. Long hours spent in formation. Weeks spent in training, listening intently to learn about the dangers they’ll face in war. The nerves of standing at attention while a First Sergeant looks them over. The pride [...]
Army sees technology as future training component
As the Army moves into the future, it will continue to concentrate on both humanitarian assistance and building international partnerships, according to Unified Quest participants. But they said the service will also, in an era of downsizing and constrained resources, still need to be trained and ready for conflict or war. “Now that we’re coming [...]
Senators Want Safe F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Flight Training
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has some explaining to do on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, according to Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ), respectively, the chair and ranking member of the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee. Both those Senators sent a letter to Panetta on December 6, one day after McCain called [...]
Air Force rolls out new rifle qualification course
Airmen taking the new Air Force Rifle Qualification Course are finding themselves learning more than just basic marksmanship skills. Changes requiring more intensive weapons training were published in September by the Air Force Security Center and officially took effect Dec. 1. “Our combatant commanders identified over the last 10 years that we needed to move [...]
New war game developed to study Army’s impact
Games mean serious business at the Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center at White Sands Missile Range with the development of a new war game that will help evaluate the social impact of Army operations. The Irregular Warfare Tactical War Game, being developed at Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center at White Sands Missile Range, [...]
British Army completes Apache exercise in the States
Army Apache crews are returning to the UK this week having completed a major exercise in the United States as part of the Apache Conversion To Role course. Exercise Crimson Eagle is a challenging two-month exercise, split between Naval Air Facility El Centro in California and the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field in Arizona. [...]
