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A Ukrainian volunteer group is asking the public for monetary donations that would be used to crowdfund a fleet of British FV101 Scorpion armored reconnaissance vehicles, sometimes identified as light tanks, for the country’s ground forces. The Ukrainian Army has already received a number of other variants that belong to this broader family of tracked combat reconnaissance vehicles, which could help with training on and sustainment of the Scorpion should it arrive on the battlefield.

During a three-day exercise, the People’s Liberation Army Navy conducts simulated attacks on key targets on the island of Taiwan and the surrounding area.
China’s CCTV channel on April 9 reported that the country’s military sent dozens of aircraft and many warships to participate in the joint drills in the Taiwan Strait, the northern, southern, and eastern offshore areas.

The Russian military set up units specializing in destroying Western tanks that aid Ukraine, training soldiers to attack their weak points.
Evgeny Arifulin, head of the Russian Army’s Combat Training Center, said on April 9 that specialized units to destroy Western tanks were established on the instructions of Deputy Defense Minister of Russia, Lieutenant General Yunus-bek Yevkurov.
Mr. Arifulin assessed that this is a large systematic program and is on schedule as set out by the superiors.

Ben Ferencz in 2014. (Photo by Richard Blanshard/Getty Images).

The last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in Germany is dead. Ben Ferencz, a World War II U.S. Army soldier and Harvard Law School graduate was only 27 when he successfully prosecuted Nazi commanders for their roles in crimes against humanity during the war. Ferencz was 103.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum broke the news. Only recently out of the Army, Ferencz was the youngest member of the prosecution team of the subsequent Nuremberg trials in 1947.

Russia should give up this aircraft carrier and scrap it. Damn, Admiral Kuznetsov is finally out of the dry dock, but that doesn’t mean he’s returning to the high seas.
More disasters have befallen Russia’s single aircraft carrier than anyone could have predicted. Deadly fires have broken out there on multiple occasions. Several planes have been lost, and there have been countless failures and accidents, including the sinking of a dry dock.
Admiral Kuznetsov: What is the future of the aircraft carrier?
Originally, Russia had planned for Admiral Kuznetsov to undergo a four-year refit.

The F-35B Joint Strike Fighter vertical takeoff and landing fighter aircraft has been in operation on the US Navy’s amphibious assault ships for many years, introducing an unrivaled capability to launch 5th generation air strikes from smaller ships without a runway. Complete, like the America-class amphibious assault ships.
The F-35B is the most sophisticated of the three F-35 variants in use today and requires unique engineering to reach unprecedented heights in vertical glide and takeoff.

This year, the Air Force has gone straight to Congress for its requested 72 fighter jets for the coming fiscal year. It won’t be the last time, according to the general in charge of the service’s long-term strategy, who spoke on Thursday.
The Air Force’s high command has been stating for years that the service must acquire 72 new fighters annually in order to bring the average age of its planes down and keep up with technological advances.

The Navy intends to equip its F-35s and F/A-18s with the Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive, a next-generation air-launched hypersonic missile HALO, to destroy adversary ships at sea from the air.
This is a critical capability designed to give maritime strike forces an unprecedented advantage in quickly tracking and destroying enemy targets at ranges of several hundred miles.
What is the Next Phase of HALO : 
In order to move on to the following round in 2024, two industry heavyweights, Lockheed and Raytheon, are developing prototype missiles.

Su-25 and Su-34 fighters often work in the park during combat operations, Russian state media confirmed last month. The Russian military is likely using its Su-34 platforms to “cover” the Su-25 when it flies low-altitude strike missions.
According to those who have studied the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Su-25 has taken the greatest number of casualties over the past thirteen months. Mobile phone photos of a shot-down Su-25 fighter jet went viral in March.

As tensions between  Iran and Israel rise, both have considered purchasing cutting-edge weapons to counter their adversary.
Iran wants S-400 missiles.
Iran is hopeful that the addition of S-400 air defense systems to its arsenal will significantly improve its current level of military capability. The US Patriot SAM system is viewed as a close competitor to this mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system designed in Russia.