What is a depleted uranium bomb?
Depleted uranium, also known as depleted uranium (DU), is a heavy metal with a density 1.7 times that of lead and is used to harden ammunition with very high penetrating power.
It is a by-product of the nuclear industry in the process of uranium enrichment, uranium ore refining, and processing; after extracting uranium-235, the remaining “waste” contains a large amount of uranium-238, of which the abundance of uranium-235 is only 0.711%. The radioactivity of depleted uranium material is relatively low, about 60% of natural uranium.
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Ukraine MOD
As Ukraine continues to eye an offensive, more of the internationally promised armor that will help make that happen has arrived in country, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
Ukraine has received at least some of the 90 Stryker armored personnel carriers and 37 Cougar Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles promised by the U.S., as well as at least some of the 14 Challenger 2 tanks promised by the U.K. and the 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles promised by Germany, which has also sent Ukraine 18 Leopard 2 tanks.
Boeing
The U.S. Navy plans to request more than $9 billion in funding for its Next Generation Fighter aircraft, or F/A-XX, over the next five fiscal years. This, together with other details from the service’s latest budget request for the 2024 Fiscal Year, may point to possible plans to acquire prototypes of its next-generation stealth combat jet design, or at least get closer to doing so, before the end of the decade. Of course, it’s very possible that early developmental demonstrator test articles have already flown.
In 2006, Spc. Ross Andrew McGinnis, a U.S. Army member, was on patrol in eastern Baghdad during the Iraq War. It was there he earned the prestigious Medal of Honor, which he was awarded posthumously.
Background
Ross Andrew McGinnis was born on June 14, 1987, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Clarion County, just north of Pittsburgh. He always knew that he wanted to join the military. He even expressed this desire to his kindergarten teacher at age 5. Throughout his youth, he participated in team sports and joined the Boy Scouts of America to practice teamwork.
A suicide drone struck a maintenance installation in Syria on the afternoon of March 23, 2023. The attack wounded five service members and an American contractor. Another American contractor was killed in the attack. All were stationed at a coalition facility in northeast Syria, where it was later discovered the air defense systems at the base weren’t fully operational.
In a statement released after the attack, the Pentagon released a statement saying the drone was Iranian.
On January 25, 2023, following the UK’s announcement that it will provide its Challenger 2 main battle tank to Ukraine, the US approved the transfer of 31 M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine. The M1A2 represents the latest base model of the Abrams, having entered production in 1992. However, the tanks going to Ukraine are now older M1A1 variants.
An M1A1 Abrams during an exercise at Ft. Irwin, California (DoD photo)
On March 21, 2023, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen.
The early years of WWII were a dark time for Britain. Left alone to stand against Nazi Germany in Europe after the fall of France, the RAF desperately needed pilots to hold off the Luftwaffe’s attacks across the English Channel. Keen to fight back against the Nazis, Czech pilots played a key role in the RAF during the Battle of Britain and the duration of the war. The last surviving Czech RAF pilot of the war, Gen. Emil Boček, died on March 25, 2023 at the age of 100.
Emil Boček in his RAF uniform (Public Domain)
Boček was born in Czechoslovakia on February 25, 1923.
The story began as a bizarre but hilarious urban legend of fake bombs by the Allied military forces in World War II, but it began to catch on as more and more witnesses to the actual event came forward in the years following the war. A French historian began collecting these accounts from pilots, military personnel on the ground, and even Dutch Resistance fighters. It’s the story of a deception effort on the part of the Nazi Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II.
The American submarine USS Harder and its crew quickly established themselves as avid hunters in World War II. Sent against Japanese merchant shipping, the sub quickly claimed 14 Navy and supply ships in just four patrols, including the forced beaching of the aircraft transport Sawara Maru. And it saved fighter ace Ensign John Galvin during a daring April 1944 rescue. But it was the fifth patrol that made the USS Harder and its commander, Cmdr. Samuel Dealey, World War II legends.
Collins Aerospace
Concepts described as “spectral warfare” and “spectral dominance,” and related technologies, are emerging as key factors in work related to the U.S. Air Force’s multi-faceted Next-Generation Air Dominance program, or NGAD.
Budget documents point to a central goal for the service to be able to ‘dominate’ in a future aerial warfare battlespace defined on all sides by things like infrared search and track systems and missiles with multi-mode seekers, as well as advanced radars and electronic warfare systems.