The US Department of State has approved two possible foreign military sales (FMS) to India, with a total estimated value of $428.2m.
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For special operators, having expertise in new and emerging technologies is just as important as physical fitness and other aspects of fighting, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, said on Tuesday.
“This environment demands exactly what Wild Bill Donovan said 80 years ago: We need PhDs who can win a bar fight,” Navy Adm. Frank M. Bradley said at this year’s SOF Week exhibition in Tampa, Florida.
Bradley was referring to a famous quote attributed to Army Maj. Gen. William Joseph Donovan, who led the Office of Strategic Services, the U.S.
A war between Poland and Russia’s long-time close ally Belarus could break out at any time, say Polish defense officials. The frontline NATO-member nation shares a more than 300-mile border with the small, former Soviet Republic, run by a strongman, President-for-Life Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Poland vs. Belarus Could Mean NATO vs. Russia
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What has raised increased concerns among the Poles in the past few years is the development of a new form of warfare that Belarus is now engaged in.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on May 18 that Ukraine has deployed its first domestically built glide bomb — the Vyrivniuvach, or Equalizer — and that the 250-kilogram weapon is already cleared for combat use after 17 months of development by the Brave1 platform and DG Industry. The Equalizer is roughly comparable to the U.S. JDAM at a fraction of the price, can be fitted to multiple aircraft, including the Sukhoi Su-24, and arrives as Russia has been dropping as many as 5,700 KAB glide bombs on Ukrainian positions in a single month.
Ronald Reagan avoided combat during World War II because of severe nearsightedness. Instead, he narrated about 400 preflight training films while in the Army Air Forces.
It was a natural fit. An actor by trade, Reagan was comfortable in front of a camera. Blessed with a distinctive, grandfatherly voice, he was also a gifted public speaker.
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As a two-term president during the 1980s, Reagan delivered some of his most memorable speeches on Memorial Day.
The F-14D Tomcat was the most capable fleet defense fighter the U.S. Navy ever flew off a carrier deck. Grumman’s proposal to make it dramatically better was called the Super Tomcat 21 — and it was, by most credible assessments of what Cold War aerospace engineering could produce, the carrier fighter the Navy probably should have built.
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It would have supercruised at Mach 1.3 without afterburner. It would have carried more fuel, more weapons, and a longer-range radar than any other naval fighter in the world.
The U.S. Navy is informally calling it the Nimitz Gap. The USS Nimitz, the oldest carrier in the fleet and originally scheduled for decommissioning, is now leading a task force in U.S. Southern Command. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower’s retirement has been pushed past 2028. The Ford-class replacements — the USS John F. Kennedy and the USS Enterprise — are both delayed. The $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford just returned from a 326-day deployment, battered by a laundry fire and broken plumbing. America has 11 aircraft carriers on paper.
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Russia’s Avangard is the only operational hypersonic glide vehicle in service anywhere in the world. Developed from Soviet Project Albatross, which began in the 1980s to defeat Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, the system rides an R-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile into the upper atmosphere, separates, and glides toward its target at speeds between Mach 20 and Mach 27. Estimates put the warhead at 800 kilotons to 2 megatons, with a range exceeding 6,000 kilometers. Russia revealed the system in 2018 after Putin first teased it in 2004. The U.S.
The Pentagon is moving to fast-track the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation carrier-launched stealth fighter after months of internal debate over whether the program could be deferred in favor of upgraded F-35Cs. The shift reflects a hardening assessment of China’s air power trajectory: the People’s Liberation Army Air Force is on track to field roughly 1,000 J-20 fighters by 2030, the Chinese Navy has moved its J-35 carrier stealth fighter into mass production, and the PLA is now flying two sixth-generation prototypes — the J-50 and J-36. The F/A-XX will be designed for Mach 2.