U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Rito Smith
Now that debate around Ukraine getting F-16s is largely concluded, the questions of where the jets will come from and what weapons will be provided with them loom large.
There has been a remarkable amount of precedent already set for transferring advanced weapons to Ukraine that can be used by the F-16.
Weapons delivered to Ukraine so far that would be suitable for the F-16 include:
-AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM).
The dam in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya is shown after being blown up by Stalin’s secret police in 1941. From 20,000 to 100,000 people died in the ensuing flood. Photo from Wikipedia.
The Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper river in Ukraine collapsed on June 6, after a series of explosions were reported by local media. The dam holds back a reservoir about the size of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, according to the New York Times and major flooding is reported downstream in Kherson.
In 1939, Germany was on the rise, Czechoslovakia was occupied, and Britain made a seemingly minor change to the BBC. The British Empire Service became the British Overseas Service. This small change reflected a change in mission. The service would now broadcast into overseas territories and, soon, into Axis-occupied territory.
Its most famous broadcast in that mission may have been the coded messages into Nazi-occupied France. And in June 1944, a series of lines from a famous French poem told French saboteurs to start preparations for D-Day.
One of the most crucial aspects of the 1944 D-Day landing was how the weather could affect the invasion’s naval and air operations on and above the English Channel. Weather in and of itself had the ability to turn the invasion into a disaster costing thousands of lives and prolonging the war, perhaps for years. One of the most important advisors to the Supreme Allied Commander, American General Dwight Eisenhower, was a British Royal Air Force meteorologist, Group Captain James Stagg.
Global financial difficulties, a dipping oil price, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have all been significant factors in the Sultanate of Oman registering a sustained drop in defence expenditure, with a negative compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4% between 2019-2023.
According to GlobalData’s Oman Defense Market Report 2023-2028, Oman’s Ministry of Finance had announced that the defence and security budget would be cut, along with the country’s development budget. The defence budget was reduced from $9.2bn in 2019 to $7.
Sam LaGrone, USNI News
The commander of an East Coast guided-missile destroyer was removed from command on Friday due to poor performance, Navy officials told USNI News.
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David Maxwell, Small Wars Journal
(NOTE: The following is an adaptation of remarks presented at the Special Forces Association Convention in Indianapolis on May 24,…
Loren Thompson, Forbes
It is now less than 60 days until General James McConville, the Army’s 40th Chief of Staff, ends his active military career by entering retirement.
Brent Ramsey, RealClearDefense
A. Decker, DefOne
The jets’ engines are running twice as hot as designed, boosting maintenance and capping performance.
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