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The Polish Ministry of National Defence (MND) has approved a new contract with the US to procure an additional 116 Abrams tanks for the Polish Army.
The estimated value of the contract is approximately $1.4bn. Out of the total value, nearly $200m has been provided by the US, as part of its efforts to grant financial aid to Poland.
Israel-based defence company Elbit Systems has been awarded a new contract to provide the E-LynX tactical Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution for the Spanish Armed Forces.
The contract has been awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Directorate-General for Armament and Material (DGAM).
It has been awarded as part of the country’s ‘urgent acquisition of very/ultra high frequency (V/UHF) SDR radio equipment’ programme.
How much security is enough security? During the Cold War, the question was rather straightforward. The United States had one adversary — the Soviet Union — which it would need to deter and if necessary, defeat. For the last three decades, this deceptively simple question has proven exceedingly difficult to answer. For years, American defense […]
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Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss whether it is possible, and wise, to try to stave off a conflict with China over Taiwan — possibly for a very long time. A recent article by Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass urges policymakers to find ways to forestall conflict. But is it a mistake to presume that conflict […]
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CDM has interviewed Sasha Latyapova multiple times regarding the vaccines. She is breaking big news now on the Covid ‘vaccines’ and the Department of Defense.
The Ukrainian military is getting arrogant with the constant supply of the most expensive, lethal weapons western militaries can offer — a hundred billion dollars worth.
See the video below from ‘Captain Himars’. Himars is the U.S. rocket launch system which the Kremlin says killed a large number of conscripts at a barracks recently in the Russian-controlled, Eastern Ukrainian region of Donbass.
Judge for yourself.
With a new GOP House being currently sworn in, it remains to be seen if the weapons gravy train will continue from U.S. DoD.
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Ukrainian intelligence officials say that after Russia launched several large waves of drone attacks on Ukraine last week, it is due to receive another shipment of hundreds of drones from Iran sometime in the not-too-distant future.
“To date, they have used approximately 660 Shahed drones,” Vadym Skibitskyi, a representative of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR), told the Ukrainian RBC-Ukraine news outlet in an interview on Wednesday. “The contract calls for 1,750. It takes time for their delivery and preparation.
via Telegram
A picture of what appears to be a FAB-500M-62 bomb with a kit attached that features pop-out wings loaded onto a Russian Su-34 Fullback combat jet has emerged online. While there are no clear indications that the modified weapon is guided, the wing kit could still allow the bomb to be employed against target areas at extended ranges, allowing pilots to stay further away from enemy air defenses. Any such unguided strikes would be very inaccurate, but could still be used against very broad area targets, such as Ukrainian cities.
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