Australia Chooses JASSM Missiles on F-18s for Long-Range Strike

Australia Chooses JASSM Missiles on F-18s for Long-Range Strike

F/A-18 with test JASSMs(click to view full) In March 2005, Lockheed Martin’s AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile (or JASSM) cruise missile won the competition with Boeing’s SLAM-ER and the Taurus KEPD 350 for the AIR 5418 Follow-on Standoff...
Australia Chooses JASSM Missiles on F-18s for Long-Range Strike

President Obama Announces Troop Sizes for Phased Afghan Withdrawal

* President Obama announced the US would leave 9,800 troops in Afghanistan in 2015, then cut than number by half the next year. * US Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO, SAC-D member) sums up the Republican reaction: “If we are going to leave forces in Afghanistan, we...
Australia Chooses JASSM Missiles on F-18s for Long-Range Strike

Ukraine’s President Elect Wants Quick End to Anti-Separatist Operations

* Ukraine elected businessman Petro Poroshenko as its next president with a relatively high margin, and one of his pledges is to wrap up operations in Eastern Ukraine quickly. Fighting in Donetsk (Eastern Ukraine) reportedly led to the death of about 40 pro-Russian...
Australia Chooses JASSM Missiles on F-18s for Long-Range Strike

Memorial Day 2014

Monday, May 28th is Memorial Day in the USA. As we mentioned on Friday, DID honors those who have given all of their tomorrows in American military service, and will not be publishing. Readers are reminded that in America, the Memorial Day moment of silence takes...