There remains one glaring capability gap in the Army’s fires portfolio: a replacement for the M777 towed howitzer.
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When the U.S. entered WWI it didn’t have enough handguns. The solution came in the form of the M1917. Today we’re lucky enough to fire it!
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The Royal Australian Air Force is set to deploy one of its E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft to Germany later this year. This appears to be the first operational deployment of an Australian Wedgetail to Europe and the country’s authorities say that aircraft will be used to help keep watch over military and humanitarian supplies entering Ukraine.
The news of the E-7A’s deployment, which will begin in October, was broken today by Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Berlin following talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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Pushing along several vectors in its counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces appear to be making continued progress in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on her Telegram channel Monday that Kyiv’s forces gained about 10.2 square kilometers in the southern vectors over the last week and nearly 170 square kilometers since the counteroffensive began early last month.
The T-7 Red Hawk, the new Air Force training aircraft, completed its maiden flight last Wednesday in St. Louis, Missouri, beginning the final phase of its pre-production development.
The Rise of the T-7 Red Hawk: Substitute for the T-38 Talon
With its launch, the Red Hawk is positioned to replace the T-38 Talon, which has been in service for six decades and will serve as the primary platform for training American and other allied pilots to fly fighters and bombers.
The inaugural flight lasted one hour, taking off from Lambert International Airport in St. Louis.
In recent years, China’s rapid economic growth has made the aviation industry a key focus for the country. Despite significant investments in aero engine development, China still faces a considerable gap compared to Western countries, especially the United States.
Many of the submunitions in cluster munitions failed to explode on impact, threatening civilians decades after the war, making the weapon controversial.
The Pentagon on July 7 announced the 42nd package of military aid to Ukraine, including the Advanced Conventional Multipurpose Ammunition (DPICM), which is rated as “highly effective and reliable.” However, this decision met with a fierce reaction from American public opinion as well as some European countries due to the risk of causing too much damage during and after the war of cluster munitions.
FILE: The sign for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, posted along Interstate Highway 5.
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A Marine with Combat Logistics Battalion 5 was questioned and released back to his command last month after an underage girl was found in his room at Camp Pendleton, California, said Capt. Charles Palmer, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Logistics Group.
Palmer confirmed that the Marine has been accused by a woman of sexually assaulting her niece, who went missing on June 10 and was later found at Camp Pendleton.
The Department of the Air Force needs to take a more agile and intermittent approach to acquiring and integrating capabilities for the department’s command, control, communications and battle management (C3BM) enterprise, according to Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey, the integrating program executive officer in charge of the effort.
“I think what we’re trying to do is find ways of actually promoting more competition — not less competition — as we’re moving forward,” Cropsey said Monday during an event hosted by the Air and Space Forces Association.
Russia released photos of Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov meeting on the military situation, the first time he appeared since the Wagner rebellion.
The Russian Defense Ministry today posted a video of a meeting on July 9 between the Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Valery Gerasimov and the top commanders of the armed forces, discussing the series of attacks on the Rostov, Kaluga and Crimea regions affected.