Author: Michael

“I think that in the future, we will be able to deliver the rest of our MiG-29 aircraft to Ukraine if necessary,” President Andrzej Duda declared during a joint press conference in which Volodymyr Zelensky also participated. 
Duda also announced that Poland had recently delivered four MiG-29 aircraft to Ukraine. He also mentioned the number that is expected to be received soon.
Responding to a question from a Ukrainian journalist, Duda explained in detail the plan used to transfer the post-Soviet jet planes, which had already been done before and which is planned for the future.

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The Department of Defense has lofty plans to modernize how it builds, acquires and deploys software capabilities to warfighters. But a new report from the Government Accountability Office suggests that the DOD needs to do more to ensure it has the workforce necessary to carry out its efforts.
The ability to rapidly develop and deliver software is a key element of the Pentagon’s modernization plans to respond to adversary threats.

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The Navy’s testing of its new — and highly secretive — Project Overmatch capabilities is “in full swing,” but the service’s top officer is taking what he calls a “deliberate” approach to rolling out the technology more broadly across the fleet.
Project Overmatch is the sea service’s contribution to the Pentagon’s broader Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative to better link the U.S. military’s networks, sensors and shooters.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm.

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From left to right: Marine Cpl. John Darby. Lance Cpl.Nicholas Dural, and Cpl. Bradley Feldkamp received theNavy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal on April 6 for stopping a violent stabbing attack in a restaurant. (U.S. Marine Corps photo.).

Three newly-minted Marine Security Guards were honored on Thursday morning for stopping two suspects from stabbing another person with a knife at a Virginia Chick-fil-A, a Corps spokesman said.
Cpl. John Darby, Cpl. Bradley Feldkamp, and Lance Cpl.

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In order to facilitate close cooperation and future collaboration on their respective MQ-9B programs, Belgium and the UK have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The UK, the main purchaser of the MQ-9B, which will be designated the Protector RG1 in RAF service, has established the MQ-9B Cooperation MOU to enable cooperation between like-minded international governments that have purchased a variant of the MQ-9B.
In 2024, the air component will receive this remote-controlled aircraft system in Belgium.

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MAXAR via NASA

It’s fair to say that artists’ renderings of satellite systems in orbit are pretty common. Yet images of satellites in orbit taken by other satellites in orbit are a whole different ballgame.
This is precisely what the Twitter account of NASA’s Landsat Program provided on April 3. In a two-second video posted in a Tweet, we see a series of ‘satellite-to-satellite’ images. Here, NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite was pictured orbiting Earth by Maxar Technologies’ commercial WorldView-3 observation satellite.

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via Chinese internet

New video has emerged of the latest, re-engined version of China’s Xi’an Y-20 military transport aircraft. The Y-20B, which is powered by the domestically produced WS-20 high-bypass turbofan engine, is a significant development compared to the earlier models, which relied on Russian-supplied Soloviev D-30KP-2 engines. What’s more, there are now indications that the improved Y-20B may now be in now in operational service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, or PLAAF.

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Bay of Pigs would be a great name for a barbecue restaurant if it didn’t point to one of the greatest American military gaffes.
Let’s travel back in time to 1959, when Fidel Castro became Cuba’s dictator. As it turns out, Mr. Castro was buddies with Nakita Khrushchev, the head of the very communist Soviet Union. Now, if there was one thing America hated back then, it was communism. Letting the Soviets control half of Europe was one thing. But having them a stone’s throw away in the Caribbean was just too much.

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The Moroccan government has lately found an opportunity to make advances over their neighbour in an enduring arms race that goes back to the 1970’s.
Morocco’s border disagreements with Algeria were due to non-recognition of Algeria’s colonial borders by the Moroccan regime. Both countries’ armed forces have engaged in costly equipment upgrades in recent years, viewing each other as the principal threat to each other’s sovereignty, and equally reluctant to let the other nation gain the upper hand militarily.

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