The men of the Ukrainian 37th Brigade were newly trained and equipped with Western-supplied weapons. They had been tasked with an initial offensive through Russian-occupied territory in the early days of a long-awaited counter-offensive.
They pay a high price.
The soldiers said that mortars went off around them within 20 minutes of their June 5 advance south of Velyka Novosilka in the southeastern Donetsk region. A 30-year-old soldier known as Lumberjack saw two of the men from his vehicle bleeding profusely; one lost an arm while he was screaming for his family from him.
Author: Michael
US Army
News first broke just over a week ago that a former career American intelligence officer is alleging the U.S. government is concealing a decades-long top-secret ‘crash retrieval’ program that has overseen the recovery of otherworldly flying machines and their pilots. There remains no hard evidence available to the public to substantiate these claims. Yet the U.S. military and intelligence community’s shadowy crash retrieval programs are a very real thing, although the ones we know about are focused on foreign, not alien technology.
As the U.S. pledges to provide more insights into investigations of military-reported cases of unidentified anomalous phenomena — or UAP, the modern term for UFOs — the office leading that charge and its closest international partners are being a bit less forthcoming about how they’re working together to explore unexplained encounters.
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Bryan Cyr receives the Silver Star from Maj. Gen. Thomas Drew on June 12, 2023. Cyr’s Silver Star was upgraded from a Bronze Star for combat in Afghanistan in 2009 as he attempted to find two solider who had been swept away in the Bala Murghab river. (U.S. Army photo).
In November 2009, Spc. Bryan Cyr and two other 82nd Airborne soldier were sent on a solemn mission: find two fellow soldiers who had been washed away in the Bala Murghab river in Afghanistan. As they searched, Cyr and his team found themselves in an intense firefight.
A computer-generated image of the Sky Sonic. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)
Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced on 14 June that it is developing a new air-defence missile called the Sky Sonic to intercept hypersonic threats.
In a statement released ahead of the missile’s official unveiling at the Paris Air Show on 19 June, the company claimed the new interceptor offers “exceptional manoeuvrability and high-speed capabilities” enabling it to counter hypersonic missiles travelling at Mach 10 with “unmatched precision and stealth”.
According to a recent report by GlobalData titled ‘Israel’s Defence Market, 2023-28‘, Israel’s defence budget is expected to experience a surge from $24.4bn in 2023 to $27.5bn in 2028, while its acquisition budget is projected to rise to $10.2bn by the year 2028.
Akash Pratim Debbarma, an aerospace and defence analyst at GlobalData, found that the country is taking steps to modernise its defence capabilities by initiating a series of strategic procurement programmes.
Maj. Gen. Kenneth Kamper was relieved as the commanding general of the Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill amidst an Inspector General investigation. (U.S. Army photo).
The general in command of the Army’s primary artillery training base was fired Tuesday just over four months after he was suspended amid an Inspector General investigation, the service said Wednesday.
Army Maj. Gen. Kenneth Kamper was fired as the commander of the Army’s Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, which is home to the Army’s Field Artillery School and Army Air Defense Artillery School.
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A green munitions truck slowly makes its way down the line of fighters at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, towing a rack that is packed with AIM-9X Sidewinders and AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs). Some of the AMRAAMs feature a yellow band, denoting a live warhead, but most have the warhead replaced by a telemetry kit. This will tell the experts on the ground exactly how the missile performs when it’s fired.
Denmark and Norway have agreed to donate 9,000 rounds of artillery to Ukraine on 15 June. Norway will provide the shells while Denmark donates fuzes and propellant charges.
Ukraine’s counter-offensive against Russia, now ten days old, is making slow progress along the eastern and southern fronts as it combats a Russian defensive network that includes extensive minefields and pre-planned security zones used to direct and channel offensive manoeuvres.
The 9,000 rounds of artillery comes after a string of support yesterday from various countries, on 14 June.
The submariners of World War II had one of the most dangerous jobs of the war. While Germans took the worst casualty rates, the American and Japanese duel in the Pacific saw thousands of lives lost and millions of tons of shipping destroyed. American crews destroyed an estimated 55% of Axis warships in the Pacific and 5.3 million tons of shipping.
But arguably, the most successful single submarine attack of World War II came from a Japanese sub. On September 15, 1942, the Japanese sub I-19 fired six torpedoes that hit three ships.