The Defense Ministry had pushed through a bill to adopt the same dubious method of recruiting prison volunteers pioneered by the private mercenary group Wagner Group. Parliament approved it on Tuesday, the latest sign of the Kremlin’s desperate quest to recruit soldiers to stop the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
As the Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive begins, the Kremlin is looking for new ways to replenish the ranks of its frontline combat units.
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A civilian submersible is currently lost near the Titanic in waters so deep there isn’t a single submarine in the U.S. Navy that can reach it.
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US lawmakers are set this year to allow the Air Force to retire more A-10 Warthogs under a defense policy bill, a sign that past struggles to keep the legendary aircraft in the fleet may start to lose strength.
A draft of the House version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act – which is being finalized this week – would allow the service to reduce the number of A-10s to 218, reducing the fleet by more than 40 aircraft from the number of 260 last year.
The military has used close support aircraft with a wingspan of more than 57 feet since the 1970s.
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Matus Smutny, a features contributor to The War Zone, had a unique opportunity to visit the German Navy’s submarine base and its state-of-the-art hunter-killer submarine fleet. The resulting feature provides a deep dive into the Type 212A class submarine and its operations.
Here is his report:
The War Zone’s visit to the German Navy’s 1. Ubootgeschwader (1.
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For the Pentagon – which has been unable to pass an audit for years – the true enemy is not Russia or China, it’s math.
Case in point: The Defense Department has managed to overestimate the cost of military equipment that it provided to Ukraine by $6.2 billion, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters on Tuesday.
“In a significant number of cases, services used replacement costs rather than net book value, thereby overestimating the value of the equipment drawn down from U.S.
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The search for the Titan, the submersible missing in the Atlantic Ocean, goes on, although with oxygen supply onboard steadily declining, the amount of breathable air left for the five-person crew — provided they are still alive — is becoming ever more critical. Meanwhile, there has still been no definitive sign of the submersible, which could be lying as deep as 12,500 feet, and the U.S. Coast Guard has said that the source of the “banging noises” that have been detected hasn’t been conclusively established.
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The U.S. Marine Corps has removed the last of its .45 caliber M45A1 Close Quarters Battle Pistols from service. The M45A1s, which are heavily upgraded variants of the venerable Colt M1911, have now been replaced by 9x19mm M18 pistols. The Marines had been the last major American military user of M1911-series pistols, though other versions remain in increasingly limited service in the U.S. special operations community.
US Marines train with M45A1 pistols.
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The U.S. Marine Corps has removed the last of its .45 caliber M45A1 Close Quarters Battle Pistols from service. The M45A1s, which are heavily upgraded variants of the venerable Colt M1911, have now been replaced by 9x19mm M18 pistols. The Marines had been the last major American military user of M1911-series pistols, though other versions remain in increasingly limited service in the U.S. special operations community.
US Marines train with M45A1 pistols.
Eurofighter has high hopes of adding Poland as an export customer for the Typhoon, based largely on the aircraft’s air superiority capabilities. (Leonardo)
Eurofighter sees the Typhoon as “the perfect fit” for Poland as it looks to secure a long-running campaign to sell the multirole combat aircraft to the Eastern European country, the recently installed head of the consortium told Janes and other defence media at the Paris Air Show 2023.
On this special edition podcast, listeners will get to hear the first 20 minutes of Unspent Rounds, a members-only War on the Rocks podcast that features interesting conversations with interesting people. On this episode, Aaron Stein spoke with Capt. Adam “AI” Solomon, an airfield operations flight commander. Adam was in charge of airfield operations and oversaw almost all aspects of flight operations during the evacuation from Kabul.