A group of Ukrainian soldiers mounted 6 AK-74 rifles on the pedestal to turn into a homemade “six-barrel gun” to deal with small UAVs, but the effect was not high.
A video shared on social media on July 7 shows a Ukrainian soldier firing a homemade “six-barrel gun” at a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It is not clear what type of UAV was targeted, as well as whether this was a test operation or a real combat situation.
Commander Wagner explained that the group’s units have not yet arrived in Belarus because they are on leave until August on orders from the Prigozhin leadership.
Anton Yelizarov, a Wagner commander, said on July 8 that the private military group’s forces are in the preparation stage to relocate the facility. The commander also said Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner, ordered group members to take leave until early August before moving to Belarus.
Ukraine wants to use DPICM cluster ammunition provided by the US to increase firepower against trenches in the Russian line, although this is a controversial weapon.
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.” The agency said it had consulted extensively with the US Congress, its allies, and partners on the decision to provide DPICM to Kyiv.
When NATO leaders meet in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week, US President Joe Biden will bring with him a plan to hand over controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine, the administration announced today. But not all allies and partners agree, which could lead to a series of awkward interactions.
The decision, included as part of a new $800 million weapons package, comes at a time when Ukraine is firing an estimated 1,000 artillery shells a day, and the US is still trying to ramp up production of those unitary shells.
A financial advisor working for the U.S. Army has been indicted on multiple counts of fraud, stepping from a scheme to defraud Gold Star families out of military benefits.
Caz Craffy, a major in the U.S. Army Reserves who was working as a financial counselor for the Army, faces 10 counts, including securities fraud and six counts of wire fraud. The Department of Justice announced the indictment on Friday, July 7.
FILE: A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone firing a AGM-114 Hellfire missile. (U.S. Air Force photo).
United States Central Command announced today that it killed ISIS commander Usamah al-Muhajir in an airstrike on Friday, July 7.
CENTCOM said that it used a drone to target al-Muhajir, described only as a commander for the militant group in Syria’s east. CENTCOM said that it does not appear that any civilians were harmed in the attack, but it is still assessing the aftermath.
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A limited set of F-35 fighters, faced with a threat escalation scenario, could execute high-risk missions in order to achieve military objectives quickly, thus avoiding lengthy, high-mortality conflicts.
F-35 Cost and Efficiency Assessment
The high cost of the F-35 program, to many critics and cost analysts, could be justified if these fighter jets were to achieve high-impact military results in a short time effectively. In this way, prolonged operations involving a greater number of casualties would be avoided.
C-47s and C-54s alone flew a collective 92 million miles during the airlift, nearly the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
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In 1932 the Aeronautics Branch of the U.S. Commerce Department issued a requirement for a safer monoplane air transport, which Boeing first satisfied with its Model 247.
The world’s largest military helicopter, the Mi-26, will be equipped with a more powerful engine, Vadim Badeh, director general of the United Engine Building Corporation, has confirmed.
This engine capacity improvement will increase the helicopter’s performance, optimizing its operations in terms of efficiency and load capacity.
Development of the powerful PD-8V engine
The new power will come from the PD-8V engine, a new design that exceeds the power of the current Mi-26 engine by 15%.
After scrapping the creation of an all-own fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, the Mitsubishi X-2, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) is eyeing the development of a sixth-generation fighter. For this new objective, they are not alone, counting on the cooperation of global partners.
