A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force CH-47JA Chinook heavy-lift helicopter lands at Bowen Airport, Australia, during a helicopter assault July 23, 2019. Two Chinooks from the JGSDF’s 1st Helicopter Brigade, normally based at Camp Kisarazu in Japan, were on the Japanese warships for the duration of the Talisman Sabre exercise. (Mike Yeo/Staff)
Mike Yeo is the Asia correspondent for Defense News. He wrote his first defense-related magazine article in 1998 before pursuing an aerospace engineering degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. Following a stint in engineering, he became a freelance defense reporter in 2013 and has written for several media outlets.
Edge of Tomorrow is meant to ultimately deliver thousands of systems, as well as technology later developed based on those systems, for operational use.
The comments Wednesday come roughly two weeks after the Department of Defense announced it would send electronic warfare gear to Eastern Europe as part of a $150 million security assistance package.
Deliveries of the aircraft, also known as the Jet Ranger X, are slated to be completed by 2025.
Sometimes the best and most cost-effective training tool may just be a book.
The ship, cruising in the Pacific Ocean, launched three AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles May 12 during a proof of concept exercise.