The files show that the US is concerned about Kyiv’s ability to make big gains in an upcoming counteroffensive and its ability to continue to fend off Russian attacks.
One document, the authenticity of which could not be immediately confirmed, predicts that many Ukrainian air defense systems could soon run out of ammunition.
The United States has serious doubts about Ukraine’s ability to make significant gains in an upcoming counteroffensive and Kyiv’s ability to continue to fend off Russian attacks, according to a report Tuesday and documents reviewed by Agence France-Presse.
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Russia has launched attacks in Ukraine using 1,500kg high-precision UPAB-1500B glide bombs, leaving Ukrainian forces unable to defend themselves.
UPAB-1500B: The Russian high-precision bomb
The UPAB-1500B is a GLONASS-guided bomb accepted into service in 2019 by the Russian Aerospace Forces. It can be launched from Su-24M, Su-34, Su-35, and Mig-35 aircraft and has a range of 50 km.
Ukrainian Armed Forces Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat says that Moscow can continue to use these bombs indefinitely, suggesting a large number of bombs in its arsenal and constant production of them.
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In the final installment of his series of articles on the history of the V-2 rocket, historian Dr. Charlie Hall explores the legacy of the V-2 in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Be sure to read parts one and two in our series on the terrorizing Nazi weapon that failed to change the course of World War II, but drastically altered warfare and gave birth to mankind’s access to space, and the man behind it.
In February 1970, at a ceremony attended by the governor of Alabama, a U.S.
According to secret US military documents, the UK has sent as many as 50 special soldiers to Ukraine. It appears that British special forces may have made up more than half of the Western soldiers present in Ukraine in February and March of this year.
It is unclear what the special forces may have been up to or if the troop strength has been kept constant. The Special Air Service (SAS) is just one of many secretive elite military formations in the United Kingdom.
The British government has not disclosed that special forces have been active in Ukraine since the start of the war.
U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.
F-22 Raptor pilots are currently testing out a next-generation helmet for fixed-wing U.S. Air Force aircrew members. Dubbed the Next Generation Fixed Wing Helmet (NGFWH), the headgear is designed to better support advances in helmet-mounted display systems while providing a more comfortable wearing experience over the HGU-55/P first introduced in the 1980s that is presently worn by pilots.
The new helmet is being designed by the California-based company LIFT Airborne Technologies, which has officially designated the headgear as AV 2.2 NGFWH.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is requesting $75 million in fiscal 2024 to initiate a brand new pursuit intended to both accelerate the commercialization and operationalization of quantum devices for Pentagon purposes, and mature the U.S. supply chain underpinning the making of emerging quantum technologies.
Tucked into the Defense Department’s latest batch of budget justification documents, this new-start project is referred to as Quantum Transition Acceleration.
Immobilized since 2017 by a modernization process marred by multiple incidents [fall of a crane on the flight deck, two fires on board, defects, etc.], the only aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy, the “Admiral Kuznetsov,” recently abandoned the dry dock it had been in since May 2022 at the Sevmorput [Murmansk region] shipyard.
According to Russian industrial sources, quoted by the TASS agency, this ship should resume its “operational cycle” in 2024… But on condition of finding a qualified crew.
Crimea’s Moscow-appointed leader said Tuesday the region is on its guard against what could be an imminent Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Sergei Aksyonov told reporters that Russian forces in Crimea had built “in-depth and modern defenses” and had “more than enough” troops and equipment to repel a potential Ukrainian assault after 13 months of war following the full-scale invasion from Russia.
“We cannot underestimate the enemy, but we can affirm that we are prepared [for an attack] and that there will be no catastrophe,” he said.
According to reports kept secret and unconfirmed until now, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi would have devised a plan with his top aides to produce and send up to 40,000 rockets to Russia, which, according to analysts, would have exhausted its ammunition supply in its invasion of Ukraine, since it’s beginning 13 months ago, according to these leaked documents from US intelligence services and obtained by the Washington Post.
The top-secret documents are part of a collection of classified information that has been released on various social networks over the past few months.
The United States Air Force (USAF) has finally begun the long-awaited retirement of its Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft.
On April 10, the service stated that it had retired the first A-10C, commonly known as the Warthog, from the 74th Fighter Squadron at Moody AFB, after 43 years of operational service.
The A-10 tail number 80-149 was transferred on April 5 to the USAF aircraft “graveyard” at the Davis-Monthan airbase, where it will be “preserved as much as possible while providing parts for other A-10S”, according to the service.