The Readiness of America’s Military is Under Internal Attack – the Recent Accidents in Army Aviation, and the Response After, is an Indicator of What Plagues the Entire Military
I spent a career in the US Army’s Aviation branch with many fond memories of flying helicopters all over the world. I also have tough memories of losing crewmembers, which is inevitable when spending two decades in a specialty where people are paid extra because of the danger that comes with the job.
The Navy’s USS Cooperstown at its commissioning ceremony. (Photo courtesy U.S. Navy).
This weekend the Navy celebrated the commissioning of its latest littoral combat ship, the very class of ship it is trying to do away with.
Crowds gathered in New York City for the commissioning ceremony of the USS Cooperstown, which honors among others 70 Hall of Fame baseball players who served in the military during war. The ceremony was attended by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro as well as Baseball Hall of Fame members Joe Torre and Johnny Bench.
The recent Russian missile attacks in Ukraine reveal a change in military strategy and a possible depletion of the Russian military’s missile arsenal.
Russian Army and its change of command
Following the successful Ukrainian counteroffensive in September, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed General Sergei Surovikin as commander of the “special military operation” in Ukraine. Surovikin advocated a long-range shooting campaign to pressure Ukraine into negotiations.
The United States Space Force has chosen teams led by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin to develop ground control systems for its future secure communications satellites in a competition that promises advances in technology and resilience.
Space Force: The Battle for GRIFFON
On May 2, the Space Force announced that it would award $30 million to each team to develop competing designs for the GRIFFON (Ground Resilient Integration and Framework for Operational Nuclear Command, Control and Communication) system.
A tweet posted by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry confirms that Ukrainian air defenders have shot down a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missile for the first time since the attacks began. The operators of the Patriot Air defense system did it.
Earlier, a news portal, Defense Express, claimed to have obtained photographic evidence of debris, including a damaged nose fairing, from a Kh-47 Kinzhal missile launched by a Russian MiG-31 in an attempted attack on Kyiv.
Daniel Penny. (Screenshot via Juan Vazquez).
The U.S. Marine Corps veteran who choked an unhoused man to death on the New York City subway this past week has been identified as Daniel Penny of West Islip, New York.
Penny killed Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black man on May 1 aboard a forward car of New York City’s F Train. The New York City medical examiner ruled that Neely’s death was a homicide caused by compression of the neck.
The 24-year-old Penny served in the Marine Corps from 2017 to 2021, assigned as a rifleman to Camp Lejeune, per his public records.
After 5 years of intense work, the United States Air Force F-22 fighter jet, believed to be beyond airworthy after its crash at Naval Air Station Fallon, has been reinstated to the fleet.
The Air Force stated that the F-22 Raptor was damaged when a failed takeoff occurred at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, in April 2018.
After a team went to Fallon to disassemble and transport the plane back to JBER, tail number AF-07-146 spent nearly five years preparing to return to the skies.
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FILE – Russian Black Sea fleet ships are anchored in one of the bays of Sevastopol, Crimea, March 31, 2014. (AP Photo, File).
A series of explosions rocked parts of Crimea near the city of Sevastopol over the weekend. A Russian-backed official in Crimea claimed it was an attack by Ukraine, carried out using aerial drones.
“No objects [in Sevastopol] were damaged,” Mikhail Razvozhayev, the governor of Sevastopol, wrote on Telegram.
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Russian MOD Screencap
Video shows a Russian T-72B3 tank from its Western Military District thundering through the mud with an overhead metal screen, widely termed “cope cage” by Ukrainian troops, with an added layer of what appear to be Kontakt-1 explosive reactive armor (ERA) bricks on top.
The full video from the Russian Ministry of Defense showed the tank providing drone-corrected indirect fire using its 125mm cannon at high elevation. It nearly takes out the drone filming its attack with overpressure from the gun.
