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With Ukraine’s counteroffensive going “a little slower than some had thought,” a top Pentagon official on Friday said that the U.S. will provide Ukraine with “hundreds of thousands” of rounds of controversial cluster munitions known as Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (DPICMs).
As part of a US Department of Defense Foreign Military Sale (FMS), Boeing has received a contract to produce 18 CH-47F Block I Chinooks for South Korea and one additional aircraft for Spain. As Boeing continues to transition to building the advanced Block II configuration, the deal valued at up to $793 million represents the last aircraft to be ordered under the current CH-47F Block I FMS contract with the US government.
For three days, shells and mortars “flown and hissed over our heads, exploding all around us,” Anton, a Russian soldier based south of Bakhmut, told CNN. “We were hopping like rabbits under mortar rounds and bombs.”
When everything calmed down, he and his partner Slava fell asleep. The sound of a roaring engine and gunfire soon woke them up, and the shelling eventually blew up the logs covering the trench in which they were hiding.
“There was a crater right at the entrance. And then there was silence. The silence was complete.
South Korea has recovered the remains of a North Korean spy satellite and concluded that it has “no military utility,” Seoul’s military said on Wednesday, ending a 36-day operation to salvage the sunken remains of a failed North Korean space rocket launch in late May.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the military lifted key parts of the rocket and satellite through the search and rescue operation in the Yellow Sea from May 31 to Wednesday and worked in conjunction with the United States to examine and analyze them.
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Largely forgotten about today, the 1950s saw some extraordinary experiments involving aircraft carriers fitted with rubber flight decks, the idea being to launch and recover jet aircraft with no landing gear at all. While the thinking behind it might seem baffling in retrospect, the concept appeared to offer some key advantages at the time. However, unlike other revolutionary carrier aviation technologies that emerged in that period, the flexible deck was bound for the scrap heap.
The Battle of Chapultepec was a battle of the Mexican-American War that lasted from September 12 to September 14, 1847. After the Mexican-American War (1846-48), Mexico had to cede large parcels of its land to the United States, one of them being the once formidable Chapultepec fortress. With Mexican territory considerably reduced, it was now vulnerable to invasion from America. That’s to say nothing of its proximity to the capital, which meant that preserving it was an important strategic priority for the government.
According to a new Human Rights Watch report, the use of cluster munitions by Russian and Ukrainian forces in the current conflict has caused civilian casualties and violations of international law.
The report, released Thursday, documents the use of cluster munitions by Ukraine in the eastern city of Izium in 2020 and by Russia in various locations in the region since 2019. Cluster munitions are weapons that spread dozens or hundreds of smaller explosives over a wide area, posing a serious threat to civilians both during and after attacks.
The US urged not to supply cluster munitions.
A new report from the Atlantic Council argues the Department of Defense must adapt its thinking and approach to technology as a means of deterrence in order to succeed against myriad adversaries in an increasingly complex world.
The geopolitical environment has significantly changed from the Cold War and the post-9/11 counterterrorism campaigns. The current landscape involves multiple sophisticated adversaries seeking to gain regional and global supremacy by simultaneously subverting U.S. influence, the authors of the new report write.
Ukraine’s war with Russia is giving NATO countries a chance to test their advanced weaponry on a real battlefield, and they are gaining valuable insights. As a result, the Financial Times reported.
NATO members, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and France, have been providing weapons and training to Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022.
And the types of weapons they have delivered have become increasingly advanced since the war began, with Ukraine pushing for modern tanks, air defense systems and aircraft.
According to the US Air Force, a new wave of tension has erupted in Syrian airspace, with a confrontation between a Russian Su-35 and an American MQ-9 drone.
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Air Showdown: Russian Su-35 and American MQ-9
On June 5, the Russian Su-35 performed several maneuvers that put the MQ-9 at risk. The engagement included moving close to the drone as well as intercepting its flight path.
