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Yesterday, the FBI arrested Airman 1st Class Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts resident, in connection with a massive data leak revealing classified information about Ukraine, Russia, and other counties.
FILE: Russian missile cruiser Varyag docks at Qingdao Port t on April 20, 2009 in Qingdao of Shandong Province, China. (Guang Niu/Getty Images).
Russia has launched a surprise inspection of its Pacific Fleet, and a video posted on Twitter shows some of Russia’s ships in the Pacific going underway for military exercises.
The U.S. military has long been focused on China’s Navy and other armed forces as its primary challenge in the Indo-Pacific region, but Russia’s naval drills serve as a reminder that it can project combat power in the Pacific Ocean as well.
Russian forces may jam some of the GPS-guided weapons the United States has delivered to Ukraine, including Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, according to Business Insider, citing leaked documents.
The report leaked online found that four of the nine long-range JDAMs used by Ukrainian forces had missed Russian targets, possibly due to jamming, and recommended that the Russian inhibitors be removed, Insider reported Tuesday.
The Defense Department is asking for $17.8 billion in fiscal 2024 to fund its science and technology initiatives, including microelectronics advancements, joint capabilities and more, a senior official said Thursday.
The request is the department’s largest ever for S&T projects and marks an 8.3% increase over what was enacted by Congress in fiscal 2023, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu said during a webinar hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association.
The Marine Corps is scheduled to activate its second squadron of F-35C Lightning II fighters during a ceremony scheduled for Friday at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California.
On Monday, the Marine Corps announced in a press statement that Marine Attack Squadron 311 at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, would be revived. The unit had previously planned to retire its colors in October 2020. Since 1988, members of that squadron have operated AV-8 Harriers.
The Defense Department recently refreshed and reissued its enterprisewide standards that govern civilian and military use of information technology capabilities that fall under its purview.
Marking the first update of this sprawling policy instruction since 2017, Chief Information Officer John Sherman approved the changes ahead of the new document’s public release earlier this month. These standards apply to all national security systems and defense business systems.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Samuel Osborn
The U.S. Navy has already started planning for how exactly it will execute the defueling and disposal of the first-in-class nuclear-powered USS Nimitz aircraft carrier despite the service’s intentions to squeeze more service life out of the vessel. To better inform the complicated process, the Navy will likely leverage lessons learned throughout the one-of-a-kind USS Enterprise’s unprecedented ship-breaking efforts.
For months, Ukrainian forces have held off a hard-hitting Russian offensive in battered cities and heavily bombed trenches that stretch along the eastern front line.
But now, with Kremlin forces running out of steam after making only gradual gains during the winter onslaught, Ukraine is preparing to strike back.
“If our top military commanders say we have enough troops, enough shells – everything we need – to attack, then we are ready,” a Ukrainian military officer named Mark said this week in the Donetsk region.
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Russian forces may have actually started deploying antiquate T-54/T-55 series tanks on the battlefield in Ukraine. The sighting of one of these tanks, reportedly in southeastern Ukraine, comes around a month after trainloads of them were spotted on the move in Russia, prompting speculation that they would soon be taking part in the conflict.
Pictures and videos with a T-54/T-55 type tank in the background, said to have been taken recently in Zaporizhzhia, first emerged online earlier this week.
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According to Jonathan Askonas, an assistant professor of Politics at Catholic University of America, the U.S. military could not win a war against China with its current volunteer-only forces.
Given the state of global affairs and rising tensions between China, Taiwan, and the U.S., the military would need to radically transform its current structure in order to adequately address the burgeoning threat. Askonas argues that those changes could even include reinstating conscription.
