WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — In 2013, the Cyber Command was given the mission set to stand up a Cyber Mission Force capable of supporting US combatant commanders across the whole of the Department of Defense. In 2016, CYBERCOM will meet 90 percent of its goal to stand up 133 cyber teams.

"I believe fiscal year [20]16 is a tipping point for us as an organization, where we will go from a focus on developing capacity to a focus on actually employing the capacity that we have been developing over the last three years," Roger stated.

The group, known as the Grandsons of Salahadin after the famed 12th-century Muslim Kurdish leader, has already captured several villages in the IS-controlled border region between Jarabulus and Azaz following Turkish artillery attacks and missile strikes. In response, IS hit the Turkish town of Kilis earlier this month, killing two civilians.

But threats to attack the YPG unless it withdraws from territory seized from opposition rebels during an advance by pro-government forces in northern Syria last month have stoked concerns of a possible “Kurdish civil war”.

Mahmoud Abu Hamza, a Grandsons of Salahadin commander based in Turkey, told Middle East Eye that the group was backed by both the US and Turkey and considered itself part of the international coalition fighting IS.

“Turkey doesn't support us with arms. Our arms are American,” he said.

"This organisation is best understood as Turkey's attempt to activate a Kurdish proxy in Syria. Turkey is willing to consider a Kurdish force that is part of that equation, but it has to be anti-PKK,” he added.

Galip Dalay, a senior associate fellow on Turkey and Kurdish Affairs at Al Jazeera Center for Studies, also told MEE that Ankara was ready to support a Kurdish force in the fight against IS provided it also opposed the YPG's military and political ambitions.

Upgraded air surveillance capabilities go hand-in-hand with the more active role that the Coast Guard has assumed since 2012 in both Japan’s territorial waters and its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). At a ceremony commissioning of two additional patrol vessels last year, Admiral Yuji Sato, Commandant of the Japan Coast Guard, emphasized that “this is one of the largest-ever investments in the 66-year Japan Coast Gua

According to the press release, the H225 Super Puma will be equipped with advanced search and rescue mission systems and “operated in security enforcement, territorial sea guard duties as well as disaster relief missions.”

The 11-ton, twin-turbine H225 Super Puma can accommodate up to 19 passengers. It is equipped with state-of-the-art electronic instruments and autopilot, and, according to the company press release, “offers outstanding endurance and fast cruise speed and can be fitted with various equipment to suit any role and purpose.”

The mystery surrounding Khweis’ journey into the heartland of ISIS was heightened with the revelation that he’d been traveling with an unidentified Iraqi woman, who accompanied him as he traveled through Turkey and into Syria in December 2015, according to Kurdish authorities

the group has a network of women responsible for recruiting and retaining new members, U.S. officials have said.

There was no obvious reason why Kurdish authorities would want to imprison a U.S. citizen, or that the Obama administration wouldn’t want to see an American who joined ISIS face justice in a U.S. court, Chesney noted.

While Khweis may not have been a senior ISIS member, he could still provide details on how Americans and other foreigners are recruited and make their way overseas to fight.

The supplies, Breaking Defense reports, would be placed in such Pacific and Southeast Asian countries as Vietnam, Cambodia, and other unnamed nations — although the Philippines is a likely option.

The basing of such permanent supplies would form a basis for potential temporary rotational troop deployments throughout the region.

Such deployments would send a sharp signal to China that its continued militarization of the South China Sea will be met with increasing pushback by both the US and neighboring nations.

However, the current US plans are for the basing of light equipment that are not immediately scalable for war time. Instead, the equipment will instead be tailored for use in humanitarian mission sets.

The Army's top general says military forces on the ground face a high level of risk if the United States gets into a large-scale conflict against a power such as Russia or China.

Testifying Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, constrained budgets and troop cuts have had a cumulative effect on the service.

Milley says the Army is ready to fight the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations.

But what Milley describes as a 'great power war' against one or two of four countries - China, Russia, Iran and North Korea - would pose greater challenges.

Next week, the Obama Administration plans to identify Iran as the cause of a 2013 attack on New York’s Bowman Avenue Dam, CNN has learned from officials familiar with the investigation.

Hackers are believed to have gained access to the dam through a cellular modem, according to an unclassified Homeland Security summary of the case that doesn’t specify the type of infrastructure by name. Two people familiar with the incident said the summary refers to the Bowman Avenue Dam, a small structure used for flood control near Rye, N.Y. Investigators said hackers didn’t take control of the dam but probed the system, according to people familiar with the matter.

Is MEADS missile system suite to our Amry Air defense ？ can locate in sepangar base

New “bullets” for military railguns, which could strike enemy targets traveling at a whopping six times the speed of sound, are being tested.

Electromagnetic railguns and lasers are two technologies the military is harnessing as an alternative to gunpowder. The U.S. Navy is pioneering the futuristic weapons that could play a vital role in future combat.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems announced Wednesday that its Blitzer railgun hypersonic projectiles successfully passed tests at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground in Utah between 7 and 9 March 2016.

Both General Atomics and BAE Systems have created cutting-edge Electromagnetic Railguns. In 2012, the Office of Naval Research began testing them.

Despite weighing 140 tons, the ACTUV is one of the quietest ships around and will be able to withstand months at sea without any crew on board.

As well as hunting down rogue submarines, the ACTUV may also carry out the more mundane task of carrying supplies out to other ships at sea.

DARPA has not explicitly referred to the ACTUV as a weapon but it has been compared to the much more robust naval destroyers, which often seek and eliminate enemy submarines.

NASAMS 2 would be better for base defence

Mmhmm looks good, even uses better AMRAAM than our F18s

but seems to be merely fantasy fleet, sighhhh

Our f18 is geared toward land attack role.
The amraam is just a completion for any air self defence need on the f18. The one that will doing the air to air will be our  mkm

Hmmm dyou think Western armies overlooked this area for too long? Their SAM units like... tak berapa cukup even including MANPADs

Hmmm dyou think Western armies overlooked this area for too long? Their SAM units like... tak berapa cukup even including MANPADs