Euan Graham, Senior Analyst on Defence Strategy at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said that the presence of Singaporean special forces at the exercise is noteworthy.
Among the missions being planned by the carrier strike group is to launch eight F-35s at a time from the ship along with what was described as other high-end training.
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
The new Combined Joint Network Operations Security Center (CJ-NOSC) "gives us the ability [to] collaborate along with our partners, which hasn't existed before," US Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson, commander of Army I Corps, told Breaking Defense.
The contract award is a major win for Hanwha — but is also much smaller than originally envisioned.
"We've just seen an awesome demonstration of firepower here, from different weapons platforms, from different nations. But importantly, all used the same battlefield command and Strategy Center to aim for those targets," Lt. Gen. Greg Bilton, the Australian Defence Force's chief of joint operations, said.
“We're already learning a ton about what the future of army prepositioned stock should look like,” said the Army’s 8th Theater Sustainment Command Maj. Gen. Jered Helwig.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
"I remain an optimist that we're going to be able to work our way through those challenges with respect to ITAR," Adm. Mike Gilday told Breaking Defense during a recent visit to Sydney.