This Day in Military History March 31

31/03/1921   The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.

By Japanese Press (1930s-1940s) - Showa era Japan (1930s-1940s), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56070707

31/03/1942   World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.

Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=300726

31/03/2019   The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

Pennants to be Lowered for Tornado

One Monday morning OC of 21 Squadron Royal Air force and OC IX(b) Squadron Royal Air Force will lower their command pennants for the last time as the Tornado passes into history

Russian Helicopter Display With Flares.

Translation
Shooting of heat traps by the helicopter of the Mi-28N airgroup "Berkut" during a single aerobatics #Минобороны #ВКС #Беркуты #Ми28Н #Вертолеты #ПилотажныеГруппы

Отстрел тепловых ловушек экипажем вертолета Ми-28Н авиагруппы «Беркуты» во время одиночного пилотажа #Минобороны #ВКС #Беркуты #Ми28Н #Вертолеты #ПилотажныеГруппы pic.twitter.com/CfzSxOIBcC

— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) March 30, 2019

Russian AK12 Assault Rifle Put Through its Paces

В это воскресенье героем программы #ВоеннаяПриемка на @zvezdanews станет самый ожидаемый автомат в мире – #АК12 https://t.co/nbvFo8L5bm Не пропустите один из самых суровых краш-тестов на телевидении 31 марта в 9:55! #Телепередачи #ТКЗвезда #ТВ pic.twitter.com/pA3CT05F7n

— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) March 30, 2019

Translation
This Sunday the hero of #ВоеннаяПриемка the program @zvezdanews will be the most anticipated machine in the world- #АК12 https://s.mil.ru/2U1GrfD  do not miss one of the most severe crash tests on television on March 31 in 9:55! #Телепередачи #ТКЗвезда #ТВ

This Day In Military History 30 March

30/03/1296   Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.

30/03/1972   Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

By http://www.army.mil - http://www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/mounted/chapter8.htm, http://www.army.mil/CMH/books/Vietnam/mounted/images-full/F32.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4176765

US Army Resumes Cold War-Era Snap Deployments To Europe

 

  MICHAEL EADDY/U.S. ARMY

 

‘We got zero notice’: Army resumes Cold War-era snap deployments to Europe: The Army is relearning the art of snap deployments as it adapts to a new Pentagon strategy — known as Dynamic Force Employment — that calls upon the military as a whole to keep adversaries off balance with more unpredictable troop movements.

Just like in the Cold war days.

Source Stars and Stripes 

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US troops in Europe celebrate 75th anniversary of the Great Escape

 

 Image KRIS WRIGHT/U.S. ARMY  

US troops in Europe celebrate 75th anniversary of the Great Escape: The anniversary of the daring escape from a World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Poland was an occasion for historical re-enactments, static military displays and more.


Source  Stars and Stripes

This Day in Military History 29 March

29th March

29/03/1945   World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.

29/03/1945    World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.


29/03/1879






 

29/03/2005   Lithuania became a member of NATO

HMS Duncan And HMS Dragon Meet At Sea

Image Royal Navy

The two type 45 destroyers met up in the Med today HMS Dragon and her sister ship HMS
 Duncan  met in the eastern Mediterranean. One ship HMS Dragon near the end of her current deployment and HMS Duncan  just starting theirs, on the way to a task force headed by the FS Charles de Gaulle

Source  Royal Navy 

US Navy Pacific Fleet Needs More Submarines

The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS North Dakota pulls into Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn., Jan. 31, 2019.

JASON GEDDES/U.S. NAVY

INDOPACOM chief: Sub shortfall in Pacific poses threat to daily operations: According to Adm. Philip Davidson, China, Russia and North Korea operate 160 submarines in the Indo-Pacific region — and as these countries continue to increase their sub capacity, the U.S. is retiring such vessels faster than they are replaced.

Russia and PLA Navy To Hold Joint Manoeuvres 2019

Russian Navy and PLA Navy to hold Joint Sea 2019 naval drills in late April

The delegation of the PLA Navy, led by Rear Admiral Yan Zhenming, arrived in St. Petersburg the day before to participate in a planning conference with a delegation of officers from the Main Command of the Russian Navy and the Pacific Fleet, headed by Rear Admiral Alexander Shuvanov.
On March 25


Source Russian MOD

Russian Special Forces of Western Military District Training

Russian Special Forces of Western Military District train to seize and eliminate facilities of enemy in Tambov region. Some 1000 troops took part in the exersice.

Source   Russian MOD

This Day In Military History March 28

1941  

       Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina.

1942 

        A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.

Exercise Ladoga 2019 (Ладога2019 )

Ladoga 2019 (Ладога2019 )has started across six Airfields in Russia.50 aircraft  70 and about 1000 personnel aircrews are taking part in the exercise


Source Russian MOD

Alaska-based Raptors show off combat power during Polar Force drills

 

Image US Airforce

Alaska-based Raptors show off combat power during Polar Force drills: Twenty-four F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, a C-17 Globemaster III transport and an E-3 Sentry early warning aircraft “elephant walked” the flight line Tuesday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, in a display of combat power.

French Exercise Cyprus

 

Image Wikipedia

27/03/2019 Today should  see the end to their French Navy exercise off the coat of Cyprus. The Sky's over the country should be a lot quieter with the helicopters and Rafale fighter jets gone.


Source Ekathimerini.com

Today in Military History 27 March

1797

Today March 27 1797

The United States Government authorizes the building of the first six United States Navy vessels (in 1797 the first three frigates, United States, Constellation (1797) and Constitution go into service), not to be confused with October 13, 1775, which is observed as the Navy's Birthday.

1916

    Mellish was 35 years old, and a chaplain in the Army Chaplains' Department, British Army during the First World War when the following deeds took place for which he was awarded the VC.

The citation reads:

"For most conspicuous bravery. During heavy fighting on three consecutive days he repeatedly went backwards and forwards, under continuous and heavy shell and machine-gun fire, between our original trenches and those captured from the enemy, in order to tend and rescue wounded men. He brought in ten badly wounded men on the first day from ground swept by machine-gun fire, and three were actually killed while he was dressing their wounds.

The battalion to which he was attached was relieved on the second day, but he went back and brought in twelve more wounded men.

On the night of the third day he took charge of a party of volunteers and once more returned to the trenches to rescue the remaining wounded.

This splendid work was quite voluntary on his part and outside the scope of his ordinary duties.

1938

  Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.

Russian Army Decontamination Drill on THe Battlefield

Tweet of Russian Army decontaminating vehicle's on the battle field

#Видео Химики 8-й общевойсковой армии Южного военного округа ликвидировали последствия условной техногенной аварии во время учения на полигоне #Прудбой https://t.co/7Lapggb4Cs #ЮВО #РХБЗ #ВоенныеХимики #СпециальнаяПодготовка pic.twitter.com/WXxh41bPUI

— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) March 26, 2019

Translation

Translated from Russian by Microsoft

#Видео Chemists of the 8th General Army of The Southern Military District eliminated the consequences of the conditional technogenic accident during the training at the #Прудбой https://s.mil.ru/2TW7Yz0  #ЮВО #РХБЗ #ВоенныеХимики #СпециальнаяПодготовка test Site

U.S.Tests Ground Anti ICBM system Video

U.S. Missile Defense Agency Tests GMD System Against ICBM-Class Target -...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted a successful test of its Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system against an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) class target in a "two-shot salvo mode" for the first time, on March 25, 2019.


Read more on You tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06BtvUsjeQc

This Day In Military History 26 March

March 26

1918

    For his actions this day Albert Mountain Sgt was awarded the Victoria Cross

    On 26 March 1918 at Hamelincourt, France, when the situation was critical, Sergeant Mountain with a party of 10 men attacked an advance enemy patrol of about 200 strong with a Lewis gun, killing half of them. The sergeant then rallied his men in the face of overwhelming numbers of the main body of the enemy, to cover the retirement of the rest of the company – this party of one NCO and four men held at bay 600 of the enemy for half an hour. Sergeant Mountain later took command of the flank post of the battalion, holding on for 27 hours until finally surrounded.

He was also awarded the Croix duerre and Médaille militaire (France). 

1945

     World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.

2024

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         The Wider  Service Medal (WSM) Was Introduced to recognise people that normally would not under the current criteria be able to get recognition.

Morocco cleared for massive F-16 fighter buy

Morocco cleared by the Pentagon to but F-16s

Morocco cleared for massive F-16 fighter buy: Morocco is ready to spend a lot of money on U.S. defense goods Reports Defence News.

LÉ SAMUEL BECKETT (#P61)

By Irish Defence Forces - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dfmagazine/14278819870/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34045954

LÉ SAMUEL BECKETT (#P61) Departed Cork Naval base this morning 25/03/2019 on four week security patrol of Irish waters.

LÉ SAMUEL BECKETT (Wikipedia)

Russian Army International Games

Translated Tweet from The Russian Ministry of Defence Translated from Russian by Microsoft

 #Видео marines of The Northern Fleet are preparing for the competition of professional skills #МорскойДесант in the Framework of Army International Games-2019 https://s.mil.ru/2U8krif #СеверныйФлот #АрМИ2019 #Морпехи #ВМФ #Арктика

#Видео Морпехи Северного флота готовятся к конкурсу профмастерства #МорскойДесант в рамках Армейских международных игр-2019 https://t.co/Y0dDRAep3S #СеверныйФлот #АрМИ2019 #Морпехи #ВМФ #Арктика pic.twitter.com/VxTYRUgSCV

— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) March 25, 2019

This Day In Military History 25 March

25 March 1802

 The Treaty of Amiens

25/03/1802  The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.

Russian Submarine RTB

Submarine "#СтарыйОскол" #ЧФ returned to its base after successful completion of training in the sea polygons Of the Black Sea. During The sea flight the crew worked out the tasks of detecting, escorting and destroying sea and shore targets of the enemy

Original tweet

This Day In Military History 24th March

Sino-French War

 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.

Today In Military History 23 March

This Day 23/03/1879

23 March 1897 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru. Extract from Wikipedia

23 March 1991 The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), or the Sierra Leonean Civil War, was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government. The resulting civil war lasted 11 years, enveloped the country, and left over 50,000 dead.    Extract from Wikipedia

By 대한민국 국군 Republic of Korea Armed Forces - 공중조기경보통제기, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

The Uk Goverments Defence secretary Gavin Williamsoon has signed a $1.98bn deal for five Boeing  E-7 aircraft to replace the current fleet of E-3D Sentry's. This will ensure the UKs Air defence capibility  is top of the line well into the future.

Original tweet  

Full Story at The Royal Air Forces's web site

Three SU-25s Sent to Chelyabinsk

This Tweet from The Russian MOD confirming the transfer of three S-25s to Chelyabinsk to take part in tactical exercises

Three Su-25 Stormtroopers were relocated from the Russian airbase "Kant", stationed in the Kyrgyz Republic, to the Chelyabinsk region for participation in flight and tactical exercises, as well as in the competition of International Army Games "air traffic-2019" #Минобороны #АРМИ #АРМИ2019 #Авиадартс2019


Original Tweet link

Today in Military History 22 March

 On This day 22/03/1421

The Battle of Baugé, fought between the English and a Franco-Scots army on 22 March 1421 at Baugé, France, east of Angers, was a major defeat for the English in the Hundred Years' War.

Wikipedia

USAF Bombers Intercepted at the Russian Border

 B-52 Stratofortress bombers  Turned back at the Russian boarder by Su-27s

Source Russian Ministry of Defence, Military.com

First Flight of Sikorsky Boeing Defiant

The Sikorsky  Boeing SB 1 DEFIANT helicopter  first flight March 21, 2019. With its two coaxial main rotors and a rear mounted pusher propulsor,  (Media: Sikorsky-Boeing)

Full Story at Boeing Defence

Dunford to meet with Google for ‘debate’ on Chinese ties

 

Joseph Dunford                 

For the second time this week the Pentagon has warned Google about  its investments in China.

Dunford to meet with Google for ‘debate’ on Chinese ties: The Pentagon's top uniformed officer thinks tech companies need to be smarter with how they approach China.

Fourth River Class Patrol Ship Named.

HMS Tamar

The

Today in Military History 21 March

21 March 1918 the German spring offensive Operation Michael 

British troops retreat, March 1918

By British Government - This image scanned from "The Times History of the War" Volume XVIII, page 53, published 1919., Public Domain, Link

US - Army to Send More Troops to the Pacific

Gen. Robert Brown, Commander of Army forces in the Pacific said this week in an iteview with Stars and stripes said that 5000 10000 more troops could be sent to the Pacific for on going assignments. To enable it to become a more mobile force.

Original story at Stars and Stripes