A Russian machine gunner gets it wrong. Quick reflex however.
Russian soldier with a mobile air defense team nearly kills several other soldiers in a training incident, after losing control of his YakB-12.7mm Rotary Machine Gun, normally mounted on the Mil Mi-24 Hind Helicopter Gunship.
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Author: Michael
The Russian Su-35 fighter program has entered a major transition phase, as for the first time the bulk of production over several years will be allocated to meeting export orders rather than orders for the Russian Aerospace Forces. This is the result of the first placing of a large Iranian order for 48 fighters, which is twice as large as the two prior orders placed by China and Egypt – the latter of which was cancelled with the fighters resold to Algeria and Ethiopia.
How Half-Hearted Power Costs America Lives, Money, and Influence
Introduction: The Question We Have Already Answered
The United States rejects the label “empire.” Yet it maintains overseas military installations, guarantees the security of allies across multiple continents, polices sea lanes, enforces sanctions with global reach, and repeatedly intervenes in the internal affairs of other states. Whatever term Americans prefer, the practical exercise of power increasingly resembles an imperial system.
U.S. forces launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran Sunday night, a day after the two countries traded attacks in a week of renewed fighting.
U.S. Central Command said the attacks were meant “to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz.” CENTCOM did not say what was targeted or how many sites were hit, but Iranian media reported explosions at several locations in southern Iran, including Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz.
Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign is the most successful thing it has done all year, and Volodymyr Zelensky has been explicit that the point is coercion: make the war hurt inside Russia until Putin negotiates. The instinctive next question is how much further he can push.
But the real limit on the strategy may not be Putin’s tolerance for pain at all.
T-84 Tank from Ukraine War. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
T-84 Tank Ukraine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
After World War II, the U.S. military had a new problem to figure out: Just what could a nuclear weapon do against a conventional force? To figure that out, the Army and Navy teamed up for the first post-war nuclear tests, assembling a massive fleet, tens of thousands of troops and several of its then-limited atomic arsenal for what would be dubbed Operation Crossroads.
What resulted was a pair of nuclear tests that sank several ships and rendered dozens inoperable, and heavily contaminated the Pacific islands the explosions took place in. 80 years ago this month the U.S.
U.S. forces hit more than 100 targets in Iran Saturday evening, the latest in several days of renewed fighting between the two countries.
Saturday’s strikes involved munitions fired from fighter jets, ships in the nearby waters and U.S. drones, according to U.S. Central Command.
“Targets included Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks, and coastal surveillance locations,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
Summary and Key Points: As Ukrainian drones batter Russia’s refineries and a fuel crisis spreads across the country, Vladimir Putin faces mounting pressure to hit back harder. Western analysts who study Russia’s escalation options have mapped what those blows could look like below the nuclear line, from cutting undersea cables to a covert land grab on NATO’s border. The most dangerous of them all is a direct conventional strike on NATO territory itself, the one move most likely to trigger the alliance’s mutual-defense clause.
Russians Want the War to End, But Putin Is Doubling Down: As Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign moves from one success to another, inflicting major damage on the Russian military and economy, it is becoming abundantly clear that it’s not enough to force President Vladimir Putin to back down.
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