Regarded as “the best wall” against China’s aggressive moves or as “the worst deal in Australia’s history,” the AUKUS submarine deal should be considered a very logical strategic decision to reassure at least one regional player – India – to continue betting on the nuclear. France could then take revenge.
UKUSA and AUKUS, two sides of the same medal
Distance should not erase history. Australia has always been a key player in the US strategy in the Pacific.
Author: Michael
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
The Battle for Luxembourg was a short battle between the Luxembourg Gendarmerie, Volunteer Corps and the German Wehrmacht that resulted in a swift victory for Nazi Germany. The invasion that prompted it began on the 10th of May 1940 and lasted just one day. As a result of the 1867 Treaty of London, Luxembourg had no army and relied on a small force of Gendarmes and volunteers for its defence.
A U.S. Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint has conducted a sortie inside Finnish airspace for the first time, at least in recent memory, flying opposite the border with Russia. These flights look set to become routine as Finland continues to move through the process of joining NATO, something the country’s leadership decided to pursue following the Russian military’s all-out invasion of Ukraine last year. Today’s sortie highlights how the Finnish ascension to the alliance will allow for expanding already robust efforts to surveil Russia from the air.
Ukrainian special forces underwent a big modernization and are now very effective against Russia, yet supplying them with equipment is hard.
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An American B-52 nuclear bomber was flanked by six NATO fighters in a spectacular V formation. Spanish F-18s, Romanian F-16s, and Italian Typhoons joined the display.
The spectacular moment when NATO fighters flanked a US nuclear bomber in a show of force before Vladimir Putin was caught on camera.
NATO published photographs from yesterday showing a V formation of Spanish, Italian, and Romanian fighter jets protecting the bombers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – APRIL 22, 2018: A metal plaque on the facade of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington, D.C., features a quotation by Abraham Lincoln. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images).
Sometimes a story seems too good to be true — and not actually in a good way. Like the possibility of means-testing disability payments from the Department of Veterans Affairs based on income, which would mean that the more money one earns at work, the less one would receive based on a service-related disability.
Slovakian MoD screencap
In a move bound to raise hackles in Moscow, four Ukrainian pilots climbed into MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets in Slovakia and flew them home to join their own air force, the Slovakian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced Thursday.
The Fulcrums were the first tranche from a total of 13 promised last week by Slovakia to Ukraine, which has had dire need of combat aircraft since the full-scale Russian invasion began.
In the official video above, the pilots are shown walking to the jets and taking off.
In the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this month, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit wants to make sure that it’s well-positioned to react quickly and help its partners in industry who might be in jeopardy if additional financial institutions go belly up, according to the leader of DIU.
The SVB bank failure, one of the largest in U.S. history, happened after worried depositors started withdrawing their uninsured deposits in large quantities, among other contributing factors.
South Korea’s state arms procurement agency hopes to sign a contract for the serial production of the domestically-made KF-21 Boramae fighter next year, officials said on Thursday, in what could be a key milestone for the South Korean state arms procurement agency aircraft acquisition project.
During a National Assembly defense committee session, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration briefed lawyers on the development plan, including its push to complete an “interim” combat-readiness test of the aircraft in May. of this year.
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Nobody, and I mean nobody, saw the Chinese Spy Balloon story, or the subsequent great balloon hunt over North American airspace that saw the downing of three additional objects, coming like The War Zone and our readers did. To commemorate this absolutely bizarre series of events, we and our Blipshift partners began our own hunt for a t-shirt design that would truly get your game on. The result pays homage both to recent events and to what was for many of us a favorite game of the Nintendo Entertainment System era — Duck Hunt.