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.
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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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The German government has cancelled its largest naval shipbuilding program of the past 75 years, the F126 frigate program, with the country’s defence ministry confirming that this was a result of “significant delays, enormous cost increases, and incalculable risks.” The ministry revealed that cost overruns during development had raised the estimated cost per ship to 228 percent of initially estimated levels,to €3 billion ($3.
In the 1980s, at the height of its economic power, Japan set out to build something it had not built since World War II: its own modern fighter jet, designed and made in Japan, a symbol of a country that had become a high-technology superpower. It never happened the way Tokyo wanted. Under heavy pressure from Washington, which feared an independent Japanese fighter industry and a worsening trade dispute, Japan agreed to abandon the fully indigenous design and instead build a version of the American F-16 Fighting Falcon. Then came the twist that still stings in Tokyo.
On June 23, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in the United Arab Emirates for a visit to the Middle East.
Speaking on the tarmac, he made an important point about threats that have come from militias in Iraq.
Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
“You can’t have the end of hostilities and conflicts in the region as long as Iranian proxies are launching missiles and drones from Iraq, and are participating in terrorism like Hamas did and Hezbollah did,” Rubio said.
Iraq Has an Iran Problem That Must Be Solved
His comment is important.
Less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ended the military’s flu shot mandate, several branches reinstated flu vaccine requirements after an outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas sickened at least 222 recruits and hospitalized four. Mainstream outlets tied the outbreak, and the June 12 death of recruit Keon McDaniel, to the end of the mandate, but several physicians and researchers interviewed by The Defender said there is no clear evidence linking McDaniel’s death to the flu or showing that the policy change caused the outbreak.
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
Ukraine’s long-range strike campaign escalated again on the night of June 23, with missiles striking one of the largest gas processing facilities in Russia.
The strikes also took out military satellite communications infrastructure and caused additional damage in occupied Crimea.
Tu-95. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Tu-95 Bomber Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
It comes as Kyiv steps up its long-range campaign, forcing Russia to shut down major oil refinery operations and even prompting it to seek help from Kazakhstan to address its fuel shortage.
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Ukrainian drone and missile attacks in Russia and in Crimea are putting intense pressure on the Russian economy and on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is facing increasing pressure both at the front and within the country.
However, some analysts believe that Ukraine’s recent string of successes will only cause Russia to escalate the war even further.
Su-34 Fullback. Creator: Vitaly V. Kuzmin. Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin
The Ukrainians have knocked out about 25 percent of Russia’s gas and oil refineries.