The Australian Army and Indonesian Army, Tentara Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan Darat completed the latest edition of Exercise Wirra Jaya in a virtual format to overcome travel restrictions imposed as a result of Covid-19.

Fleet Synthetic Training – Joint 20/72, a virtual trilateral naval warfare exercise held this month, featured participation from the USA, Canada and Australia.

Over 400 UK and international defence cyber specialists and novices have taken part in the UK's biggest cyber competition centred at Blandford Camp, Dorset.

The Royal Australian Navy has completed Exercise Cuttlefish 2020, which provided participating Minehunters HMAS Gascoyne, Huon and Yarra, with realistic mine clearance training.

The Hong Kong Garrison of the Chinese People's Liberation Army recently undertook joint air-sea patrol exercises in the waters and airspace near Hong Kong.

The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, from Fort Hood, Texas, has started arriving in Europe in support of Atlantic Resolve.

In the second of three articles on UK Armed Forces Officer Training, MS&T’s Dim Jones visited the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, located in the town of Camberley on the Berkshire-Surrey border some thirty miles south-west of London.

After covering Gladiator in Issue 3/2020, the Royal Air Force’s synthetic training initiative, MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones explores the Royal Navy’s equivalent programme.

MS&T readers will be aware of the plans for the future of synthetic training in the Royal Air Force under the Defence Operational Training Capability (Air) (DOTC(A)), also known as Gladiator. Similarly, the Royal Navy is looking to transform the way it trains its people and also the way in which it mans and deploys its forces. The Defence Operational Training Capability (Maritime) (DOTC(M)) is key to this transformation. I visited the home of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth to learn more from the RN and industry about plans for the maritime equivalent.

 

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The Russian military tested new concepts during the recently held, large-scale "Kavkaz-2020" military exercises held from September 21-26.

The largest military exercise to be run by the Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom for over a decade has begun.