Russian military leaders are likely to start withholding the bad news about the war in Ukraine from the Russian president because they are increasingly concerned about their own security.
That’s what Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who focuses on Russia, thinks.
“In this atmosphere of suspicion and uncertainty, with leading generals disappearing and Putin quick to blame traitors, self-censorship among military high command is likely to become more prevalent,” Massicot wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times.
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India is willing to modify indigenous LCA Tejas fighter jets as per Argentina’s demands. The South American country has objected to Britain’s LCA ejection seat, which Indian aviation company HAL has agreed to exchange for another foreign seat.
The Argentine Defense Minister, Jorge Enrique Taiana, is currently in India for bilateral defense cooperation and also met on Tuesday with his Indian counterpart, Rajnath Singh.
The Tejas de India light combat aircraft (LCA) uses the ejection seat of the British company Martin Baker, which Argentina has opposed.
Boeing Screencapture
Boeing Defense has released the first video of its Orca extra-large unmanned undersea vehicle, or XLUUV during at-sea testing. The Pentagon in 2019 ordered an initial batch of four of the 80-ton Orcas for the U.S. Navy, with a fifth added later that year. Since then, we saw the christening and launch of the test asset at Huntington Beach, California, in April last year, but we hadn’t previously seen the long-endurance craft underway in the water.
Check out our first released video of Orca XLUUV in-sea testing — with a dolphin pod cameo.
In the next iteration of its Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE), the Defense Department wants to focus on improving its joint fires network capabilities in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and smooth out any data-sharing issues with its allies and partners.
Now led by the nascent Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), the GIDE projects are broadly intended to test, optimize and integrate the department’s data systems with artificial intelligence.
Successful and timely passage of the National Defense Authorization Act and the defense appropriations bill for fiscal 2024 will be the two most critical items in enabling U.S. Cyber Command to address readiness issues and move into its next era of growth and maturation, according to the nominee to be the next Cybercom chief.
“We view FY24 and the overall passing of both the NDAA and the appropriations bill as a critical moment that now aligns the responsibilities and authorities within U.S. Cyber Command analogous to those of U.S. Special Operations Command,” Lt. Gen.
Meet the car you’ll be paying for the next 10 years. (Getty Images photo).
It’s the end of an era for cash-flush junior enlisted troops and the car salesmen who love them.
The end of July will mark the end of new orders for both the Dodge Challenger and Charger. Dodge announced last year that the two muscle cars would end production in late 2023, but dealers will stop taking orders for the car after July 31.
For years, people have reported seeing black triangle UFOs or UAPs in the skies over the United States. What are these objects?
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Special task forces under U.S. Central Command tested a new smartphone app this week that could help the U.S. military crowdsource efforts to defeat enemy unmanned aerial systems.
The tool, known as CARPE Dronvm, was put through its paces at McEntire Joint National Guard Base and Poinsett Range in South Carolina, according to a Defense Department release.
The technology pursuit is being spearheaded by U.S. Air Forces Central’s Task Force 99 and U.S.
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GlobalData’s “Chile Defense Market 2023-2028” report reveals Chile’s Navy, Air Force, and Army prospects in a recovering landscape.
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