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USAF

Increased demand for RC-135V/W Rivet Joint spy plane sorties in the Pacific has led the U.S. Air Force to create a new unit in Alaska to help manage those operations. From Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the Rivet Joints will be well-positioned to gather intelligence on areas of interest in the northern end of the Pacific and the increasingly strategic Arctic region.
The Air Force announced the creation “recently” of 55th Operations Group, Detachment 1 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, which is in Anchorage in southeastern Alaska, in a press release yesterday.

In a recent announcement, Iranian Navy Commander Irani revealed plans to equip the Damavand-2 destroyer with the domestically-produced “Conqueror” hypersonic missile, making Iran the third nation, after China and Russia, to possess such a formidable “ship-shooting superb” capability.
This development has sparked a wave of enthusiasm in Iran but has also raised concerns, especially in Israel, where the relationship with Iran has been tense. The “Conqueror” missile’s poster even boasts the slogan “Hit Tel Aviv in 400 seconds,” further escalating tensions in the region.

House lawmakers vowed Wednesday to place more pressure on the Pentagon for answers to existing and emerging questions about its growing cache of secretive unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) records after three former U.S. defense officials shared personal accounts of potential government-concealed encounters with what they think could be craft and technologies of “non-human origin.”
At a House Oversight and Government Accountability subcommittee hearing on UAP transparency — which was highly-anticipated and well-attended — retired Navy Cmdr.

The Russian fighter jet flew very close to the drone, firing flares at it and causing significant damage.

A recent air incident has escalated tensions in Syria, where a Russian Su-35 fighter jet inflicted damage on a US MQ-9 Reaper drone.

Russian Su-35 attacks US MQ-9 drone
According to US military reports, the Russian fighter jet flew very close to the drone, firing flares at it and causing significant damage to the drone. This aggressive act represents the latest in a series of Russian interceptions in the region.

The changing world geopolitical order, especially in recent years, reveals the need for defense industry products to show force to the adversary or source of threat perception, as in all other sectors. The ULAQ KAMA will be the new dominant force in the seas, born from the need to obtain products that require a relatively low cost but with a very high impact power to take the level of deterrence to the extreme in the face of the demonstration of hostile behavior and make the most of the field advantages it brings.

Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Roughly two months on from the start of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south and east of the country, it appears that the long-awaited main thrust of that operation may now be happening. That, at least, is the conclusion of two unnamed Pentagon officials, speaking to The New York Times today.

Those officials said that the main thrust was focusing in an area in the southeast of Ukraine and involved “thousands of reinforcements.

Iran once again boasts of its ability to develop and build fighter jets domestically amid growing signs that Russia is reneging on a sale of Su-35 Flanker fighter jets that Tehran was counting on using as a stopgap solution for its air force’s aging fighter fleet.
“At some point, we made a deal for the purchase (of the Su-35s), but we came to the conclusion that we can produce (fighter aircraft) in the country,” Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani said on July 25.

Politico has reported that China has sent Russia enough military equipment to equip an army, taking advantage of loopholes in Western sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Using evidence such as customs records, Politico reported that Chinese manufacturers were delivering significant amounts of equipment to help Russia in its fight against Ukraine.
This includes enough protective gear to outfit many of the troops Russia has mobilized for its invasion and drones that can direct artillery fire and drop grenades on Ukrainian forces.

Czech MoD

The first two new U.S.-made AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters for the Czech Republic have been delivered to the country. Their arrival comes as the Czech Republic’s aging Soviet-era Mi-24/Mi-35 attack helicopters are set to be retired from service in September, with four of these already having been delivered to Ukraine, and more set to follow.

Body Bearers with Bravo Company, Marine Barracks Washington, carry the casket of Sgt. Nicole Gee during a full honors funeral Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Sept. 29, 2021. . (Lance Cpl. Mark Morales/U.S. Marine Corps).

A recent Fox News story incorrectly reported that the Defense Department stuck the family of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, who was killed in Afghanistan, with a $60,000 bill to transfer her from California to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, according to the fallen Marine’s family and the Pentagon.
Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee was one of 13 U.S.