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FILE: A 30mm GAU-8 Gatling Gun system gets secured during unscheduled maintenance, July 23, 2019, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (Senior Airman Erick Requadt/U.S. Air Force).
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shown that anti-aircraft guns are still relevant to air defense in an age when relatively inexpensive drones can pose a growing threat to troops and civilians.
The study has the potential to shape the way the Army tries to prevent injuries in Soldiers for the next decades, an officer said.
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The Navy and Marine Corps are working out how to best leverage cloud capabilities as they modernize and prepare to conduct operations at sea and in areas where connectivity is limited.
The sea services in recent years has followed both the Air Force and Army in making strides towards migrating applications to the cloud. But while cloud services are available to sailors and Marines on shore, being able to use weapons and platforms during operations hinges on access to the cloud at sea, said Rear Adm. Stephen Donald, deputy commander of the Navy Cyber Command.
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In a future fight, control of advanced drones belonging to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force could be passed back and forth between assets from either service as the situation demands. Uncrewed platforms are set to make up the majority of the Navy’s future carrier air wings, with up to 60 percent of all aircraft on each flattop eventually being pilotless.
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A remarkable video from the war in Ukraine shows what is purportedly a Ukrainian-operated UR-77 Meteorit mine-clearing vehicle’s rocket-assisted line charge being used not to carve a path through a minefield but instead as a powerful offensive weapon against Russian troops in an urban setting. The Soviet-era Meteorit is a system that we’ve seen in use since the start of the war in Ukraine and it seems to have become increasingly popular as a type of ad-hoc artillery, in addition to its original combat engineer role.
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Both Ukraine and Russia have made use of outdated Soviet-era weapons on the battlefield alongside their more advanced and modern systems.
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The Russian campaign in Ukraine is faltering. The Russian forces are having trouble making meaningful progress on the ground.
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The first of four new Pohjanmaa-class corvettes is set to start construction later this year. (RMC)
The Finnish Navy has confirmed plans to start the build phase of its first new Pohjanmaa-class corvette during the third quarter of 2023 following delays to the programme.
Under its Squadron 2020 programme, the Finnish Navy is procuring four Pohjanmaa-class corvettes from Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) under a EUR647.6 million (USD707.4 million) design and construction contract awarded in 2019, with the build to be carried out by RMC’s subsidiary RMC Defence Oy.
The RNLN plans to procure surface- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles. (Raytheon Aircraft Company)
The Netherlands has revealed plans to procure the Tomahawk land attack cruise missile from the US government, with deployment planned from both frigates and submarines.
Forming part of a broader investment in air and maritime strike capabilities, the planned procurement will make the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) only the second naval service in Europe to introduce the Tomahawk into service.