If you had to decide what the stupidest thing Hitler did was, what would you pick? Besides, you know, being a racist fascist? The invasion of the Soviet Union is a good option, as is the subsequent abandonment of Moscow to split his forces against Stalingrad and the oil fields. Taking on Italian failures in North Africa and committing needed resources there is also solid. The use of amphetamines and encouraging its use by his troops? The fascination with wonder weapons?
All solid, defendable choices.
Author: Michael
The Senate Intelligence Committee wants yearly briefings on China’s influence operations aimed at the American public.
A provision in the panel’s annual authorization bill, which passed the committee last week, requires an annual classified briefing by the intelligence community on how it is working to coordinate across the agencies to “identify and mitigate the actions of Chinese entities engaged in political influence operations and information warfare against the United States, including against United States persons.
China’s J-20 will soon eclipse the F-22 in production, exemplifying a growing concern about America’s stealth fighter combat capacity.
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Rheinmetall will supply Ukraine with two Skynex air-defence systems at the beginning of 2024, Germany’s
Handelsblatt
newspaper reported on 9 December 2022.
(Rheinmetall)
Ukraine will receive two Skynex short- and very-short-range air-defence systems by the end of 2023, Rheinmetall announced. The company included the system in a list of equipment it said it was supplying to Kyiv at the end of a press release published on 27 June announcing that the Netherlands has ordered 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks that it and Denmark are procuring for Ukraine.
The DGA on 26 June launched a test rocket carrying the VMaX hypersonic glide vehicle demonstrator. (DGA)
France test-fired its hypersonic demonstrator vehicle for the first time on 26 June, the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) announced.
The VMaX hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) demonstrator was launched from a ground-based rocket at the Biscarosse test facility on the southern French Atlantic coast.
“This first demonstrator contained many onboard technological innovations.
The French and Italian navy’s four Horizon-class anti-air warfare destroyers in formation. (Italian Navy)
A formal contract for the mid-life upgrade (MLU) of the four Franco-Italian Horizon-class anti-air warfare (AAW) frigates is expected to be signed in the coming weeks, Fincantieri and Naval Group, operating under their 50/50 joint venture (JV) partnership Naviris, announced.
The pending deal follows a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by representatives from Italy and France at the Paris Air Show 2023 on 20 June.
The FASETT programme will see Airbus lead an EU effort to develop a mid-size airlifter to operate alongside the A400M (pictured). (Janes/Gareth Jennings)
Airbus is to lead a European Union (EU) effort to develop a mid-size airlifter under the Future Air System for European Tactical Transportation (FASETT) programme announced on 26 June.
To be funded by the European Defence Fund (EDF) to the amount of EUR30.06 million (USD32.89 million) over 18 months, the FASETT feasibility study will see 11 EU countries develop a medium-lift transport aircraft to enter service in the next decade.
It’s hard to know which scenario is more bizarre: NASA having fighter pilots, NASA bullying naval aviators, or the Navy actually admitting to being bullied by those fighter pilots so they’d stop. All three really happened – and it started when the Navy wanted to replace its vaunted F-8 Crusader air superiority fighter.
Vought’s award-winning F-8 Crusader was one of the longest-serving airframes in American military history, so replacing it was going to be tough for anyone who tried. It was the last fighter to use mounted guns as a primary weapon, it had a top speed of Mach 1.
American officials are suddenly concerned that Russia’s war in Ukraine is becoming a “frozen conflict,” where two or more sides have engaged in armed combat, but no peace is in sight – even if a ceasefire agreement is reached. Despite its heavy losses in manpower, materiel and international prestige, Russia appears unlikely to disengage from its Ukraine War. Ukraine is equally unlikely to negotiate an end to the conflict after making it known that any agreement that results in ceding its territory is a non-starter.