Immersive close combat training technology company has brought an advisor to the board, who will bolster their existing knowledge of the urban warfare space, especially in the US market.
Five years after a Category 5 hurricane tore through Tyndall Air Force Base on Florida’s Panhandle, Booz Allen Hamilton has been working to create a digital twin of the 14-square-mile installation.
The Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) will participate alongside Japan and the United States for the first time in Exercise Yama Sakura (mountain cherry blossom in Japanese) to be held this December.
Manned and unmanned military aircraft landing on highways not part of a service’s base and station infrastructure is nothing new. Indeed, during the Cold War, Norway was one NATO nation that perfected their jet fighters’ ability to disperse and safely operate where they were not vulnerable. More recently, this May, during US Air Force Special Operations Command’s Exercise Agile Chariot, one MC-130J, an MQ-9 Reaper and two A-10s were the fixed-wing aircraft that completed successful highway landings in rural Wyoming. This September 21, the Royal Norwegian Air Force dramatically expanded the mission envelope of F-35As and for this task, with two of its F-35As landing on a highway in vicinity Tervo, Finland. LtCol Morten Hanche, Air Warfare Center/Fighter Branch, Royal Norwegian Air Force, took time from his busy duties to update MS&T on the training efforts behind the service’s recent hallmark success.