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A M1 Abrams tank fires a round during a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Mar 26, 2018. (Spc. Hubert D. Delany III/U.S. Army).

The U.S. and German governments appear to be on the cusp of announcing that they will provide Ukraine with M1 Abrams and Leopard 2 tanks respectively, several media outlets have reported.
The Wall Street Journal first revealed on Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s administration could announce this week that it plans to send “a significant number” of Abrams tanks to Ukraine. Politico then reported that the U.S.

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US Army

The U.S. government is getting closer and closer to sending dozens of M1 Abrams tanks to the Ukrainian armed forces, according to a growing number of reports. This comes as authorities in Poland have now formally requested approval from their counterparts in Germany to re-export Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Officials in Germany have reportedly said that they would only sign off on such a deal if the Americans green-lit a transfer of Abrams.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed Western leaders for continued Russian aggression in Ukraine this week.
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Defense Department and Federal Aviation Administration officials participated in a two-day summit hosted by NASA last week during which they met with outside experts to pinpoint government and commercial sources for capturing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) data, DefenseScoop has confirmed. 
But the agencies are currently being tight-lipped about exactly who from the Pentagon attended.

The Pentagon wants to lean more on the commercial space sector for systems and services, but there needs to be additional dialogue and information-sharing about threats to those types of assets, Defense Department officials said Tuesday.
The department sees a number of advantages in tapping into commercial offerings as the DOD moves to augment its capabilities and capacity.
“I think if you really want to go fast, that’s what you do — you take advantage of commercial.

Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) launch a weather balloon carrying a metal sphere to calibrate the ship’s radar. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Adam Austin/Released).

This article originally appeared in Popular Science.
On January 12, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs.

U.S. Navy

More than 70 years after the fact, a U.S. Navy fighter pilot has received the service’s second-highest military decoration, acknowledging a Korean War incident in which he shot down four Soviet-flown MiGs in what has been described as “the longest dogfight in U.S. military history.”
With the Soviet Union not officially engaged in combat in Korea, the exploits of retired Capt. E. Royce Williams had long been downplayed, but they’ve now been more properly recognized after a long-running campaign.

Meet naval aviation and Korean War hero Capt. E. Royce Williams.

Despite the F-22 Raptor’s reputation as the world’s most capable air superiority fighter, the stealth jet has lost a number of notional dogfights over the years to older and less advanced platforms like the F-16 and even the Navy’s electronic-warfare specialist, the EA-18G Growler. But few exercises have done more damage to the mighty Raptor’s […]
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U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Meshaq Hylton.

The U.S. Marine Corps’ (USMC) newest helicopter, the heavy-hauling CH-53K King Stallion, successfully lifted a U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter on December 13th of last year. Details on the demonstration, as well as accompanying images, were released on January 23.
The exercise took place at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. This involved a CH-53K helicopter belonging to USMC Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1) lifting the Navy’s first F-35C prototype, ‘CF-01,‘ or ‘CF-1.