DefenceTalkTwo B-52 Stratofortresses from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and two B-2 Spirit bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., recently flew non-stop from their home stations to training ranges in Hawaii to exercise the president’s credible and flexible military options to meet national security obligations to the U.S. and its allies. Part of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/usaf-bombers-train-on-long-range-capabilities-59238/

DefenceTalkTwo U.S. fighter jets under NATO command were scrambled from the Siauliai air base in Lithuania Tuesday (1 April 2014) to exercise with two Swedish Gripen fighter aircraft over the Baltic Sea, in a training event designed to improve coordination and emergency procedures. The Baltic Regional Training event is conducted several times a year. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-and-swedish-fighter-jets-train-together-over-the-baltic-sea-59210/

DefenceTalkThe 2014 Komodo multilateral naval exercises of 17 countries that are drawing to a close in Indonesian waters have been very useful to Russia, Mikhail Galuzin, the country’s envoy to Indonesia told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. “The exercise not only allowed Russia to practice cooperation with other participants but, just as important, contributed to a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/komodo-2014-naval-exercises-prove-beneficial-for-russia-59205/

DefenceTalkMore than 10,000 US troops will participate in a large-scale landing drill in South Korea next week, the US military said Thursday, days after North Korea test-fired 25 projectiles in apparent protest at the continuing joint exercises. The drill, code-named Ssang Yong (“Twin Dragons”) and billed by local news media as one of the largest-ever […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-south-korea-to-launch-massive-landing-drill-59094/

DefenceTalkSoldiers from a brigade combat team are at a combat training site doing a routine live-fire exercise. Well, maybe not so routine. Suddenly enemy jets pop out of the clouds streaking toward them. The Soldiers scramble for cover as missiles rain down. They hear the explosions from the missiles impacting all around them, see the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/live-synthetic-us-armys-next-generation-of-simulation-59091/

DefenceTalkGermany on Wednesday halted a major deal to provide a fully equipped training camp to Russian forces, saying any arms trading with Moscow was currently “indefensible”. Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel announced the suspension of the Rheinmetall project as Moscow tightened its grip on the flashpoint Crimean peninsula. The German government said in a statement it was […]https://www.defencetalk.com/germany-halts-major-arms-deal-with-russia-59098/

DefenceTalkA US Navy guided-missile destroyer will remain in the Black Sea to conduct more exercises with allied ships, its commander said on Saturday, the eve of a breakaway vote in Crimea. The USS Truxtun this week conducted joint exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian naval forces just a few hundred kilometers (miles) away from the disputed […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-destroyer-to-conduct-more-black-sea-drills-commander-59058/

DefenceTalkEgyptian military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates, a strong supporter of his July ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Field Marshal Sisi, who is Egypt’s defence minister and deputy premier, traveled to the UAE to attend the closure of joint military exercises there. He was met by UAE deputy […]https://www.defencetalk.com/egypts-sisi-in-uae-for-joint-military-exercises-58987/

DefenceTalkA US guided-missile destroyer is en route to the Black Sea but naval officials said Thursday it was a “routine” deployment that was planned before the crisis unfolded in Ukraine. The USS Truxtun departed the Greek port of Souda Bay Thursday to carry out joint training with Romanian and Bulgarian forces, the US Navy said […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-destroyer-en-route-to-black-sea-for-routine-drills-58956/

DefenceTalkFollowing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s announcement today during Senate testimony that the United States is augmenting its participation in NATO’s air policing mission in the Baltics and will increase joint training through its aviation detachment in Poland, a defense official provided additional information. In a statement provided on background, the official said the United States […]https://www.defencetalk.com/6-f-15s-kc-135-to-augment-nato-mission-in-baltics-58946/