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The F-35’s program chief conceded to senators Tuesday that the fighter has outgrown the system built to support it, weeks after a GAO report put readiness at the lowest level on…
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Mike Lyons, RCDefense
The Apache that went down over the Strait of Hormuz is not a story about one helicopter. It is a warning about the next war.
Adam Gramegna, WATM
Wearing hats into combat is a wild idea in retrospect
Warsaw, Poland – On Wednesday, the Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said that there were indications Russia could be preparing a “false-flag” operation to provide Moscow the ability to claim it had been attacked by NATO.
His warning came following threats issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the wake of repeated drone attacks on Moscow and other major cities.
Putin in a meeting. Image Credit: Kremlin.
The former KGB Lt. Col.
The British Army’s Pinzgauer tactical trucks are often used as tractor units for the L118 105mm light gun, as well as performing other roles.
Multiple Russian sources have reported that Polish contractor personnel are playing increasingly central roles within Ukrainian assault units, which reflects part of broader trends towards foreign contractors being increasingly relied on as part of the war effort, and towards Polish contractors being particularly prominent in this regard.
The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine is the next generation of American nuclear deterrence. Twelve of these boats will replace the aging Ohio-class fleet, entering service over the 2030s and 2040s, each carrying 16 Trident IIs and driven by a ghost-quiet electric motor that renders them acoustically invisible to any adversary. What makes all of that possible — the propulsion, the stealth, the strike precision — depends almost entirely on rare earths refined in China. This is perhaps the Navy’s most consequential and least discussed vulnerability.
On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and an entire battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment rode to their deaths and into American legend on the ridges north of Montana’s Little Bighorn River. The battle was decided in a few hours. Its meaning remains contested 150 years later.Little Bighorn stands alongside Yorktown, Gettysburg, and D-Day in the pantheon of iconic American battles. But it is a curious addition there, in that it was a small engagement, fought by just a few hundred men on a compact piece of terrain. More curiously still, it was a loss.
The Russian Yak-130M light fighter and trainer was confirmed on June 25 to have performed its first flight, with the aircraft expected to be procured in significant numbers to equip the Russian Aerospace Forces and the services of multiple foreign clients from the early 2030s. “The debut flight of the Yak-130M aircraft prototype took place at the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a subsidiary of the Yakovlev Aircraft Enterprise.
The ‘mobilization’ effort in Ukraine gets crazier as people will do anything to escape. A man paraglides across the border and gets shot at.
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