Robbin Laird is a journalist at Breaking Media, Inc. He specializes in aviation and aerospace, with a focus on topics such as drone technology, space travel, and the tiltrotor enterprise, drawing from extensive interviews and experiences since 2007. His work has been featured in RealClearDefense, SLDinfo.com, American Thinker, and Defense.info.
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Robbin Laird’s coverage focuses on military and defense, with a significant emphasis on training, aircraft operations, and maintenance. The articles also cover government & politics as well as transportation & logistics.
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By: Robbin Laird
By Robbin Laird The Royal Australian Navy is crossing a dangerous bridge. On one side sits the fleet it has today: three Hobart‑class air warfare destroyers, a diminishing number of Anzac‑class frigates, and a support structure increasingly strained by the weight of strategic demand. On the other side sits the fleet Australia intends to build: […]
The V-22 Osprey has been central to Marine Corps assault-support thinking for more than two decades. It is the aircraft that transformed the speed and reach calculus of Marine expeditionary operations, and it remains the platform around which the Marine air-ground task force organizes its mobility and crisis-response capability in ways that no legacy rotorcraft […]
By Robert Czulda The period of sympathy and mutual understanding between Poland and Ukraine has effectively ended. The authorities in Kyiv have once again taken a provocative step, antagonizing their key strategic partner. By mid-2026, what seemed possible just a few years ago feels like distant history. Following the 2022 invasion, Poland was the first […]
The emerging U.S. posture at the Strait of Malacca represents more than incremental security cooperation or a tactical ISR upgrade. When examined through the lens of lessons learned from the drone wars, the MDCP and its supporting initiatives reveal the skeletal outline of three overlapping webs, security, deterrence, and kill webs, that could transform how […]
Somewhere over Kuwait during the dense barrage phase of Operation Epic Fury, Kuwaiti air defense operators tracking a cluttered radar picture identified a flight of U.S. F-15s as inbound Iranian missiles and engaged them. The aircraft were not hit. But the incident was not a near-miss in the conventional sense. It was a structural failure, […]
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Wing Commander Keirin Joyce CSC is one of the Royal Australian Air Force’s foremost architects of uncrewed aerial systems capability. Since joining the ADF in 1997, he has served across operations, engineering, and acquisition, including combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, leadership of Army’s tactical and nano UAS programs, and senior engineering roles for platforms […]
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On May 26, 2026, Leonardo announced that ITPS Canada had contracted for six M-346 T Block 20 advanced jet trainers with options for six more to expand allied tactical fighter pilot training at the International Tactical Training Centre (ITTC) in North Bay, Ontario. The aircraft are expected to enter service in 2029. The announcement was […]
By Robbin Laird In the fall of 2010, I was at Marine Corps Air Station New River talking to a group of Marines who had been flying the MV-22 Osprey for several years. One of them told me a story about a group of Marines who simply would not get off the back of the […]
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Article Summary: The article is clear-eyed about the risks. Conversational AI creates automation bias (the tendency to follow machine recommendations even when wrong), strategic dependency on digital architectures that are fragile in contested environments, and a new form of algorithmic sovereignty risk, particularly from the rapid diffusion of Chinese open-source AI models into Western systems. […]
By Robbin Laird At the heart of Marine aviation’s drive for combat excellence lies a semi-annual event that most outsiders have never heard of, yet which one senior MAWTS-1 Commanding Officer described in unambiguous terms: WTI is where the United States Marine Corps comes together every year to train for war. That statement, offered by […]
