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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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.
