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A renewed bipartisan push is surfacing among Congressmen to pressure the Biden administration to approve sending F-16 jets to Ukraine, as Russia has almost completely encircled the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of 8 senators sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin with renewed calls to give U.S.-made fighter jets to Ukraine.
Video footage from an MQ-9 captures the moment a Russian Su-27 collided with the unmanned aircraft. (U.S. Air Force).
On Thursday morning U.S. European Command (EUCOM) released video footage from the MQ-9 Reaper drone that crashed into the Black Sea following a mid-air encounter with two Russian Su-27 “Flanker” aircraft that resulted in a collision on March 14.
The footage captures the exact moment one of the Su-27s closed with and hit the propeller of the U.S. Air Force MQ-9 unmanned aircraft.
Two US Department of Defense (DoD) subsidiary military services came head to head on the 14 March.
General B. Chance Saltzman, US Space Force (USSF) Chief of Space Operations, addressed a Senate Armed Services Committee attributing General Charles Brown, US Air Force (USAF) Chief of Staff, of jurisdictional overeach. The topic of discussion was on the authorisation of USSF operation plans and budget requests for the fiscal year 2024.
MC2 Technologies has been supplying its Nerod RF C-UAS (pictured) to the Japanese government with the help of its local partner, Mikuni Aerospace. (MC2 Technologies)
French company Microwave Characterization Center (MC2) Technologies has been supplying its Nerod RF counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) to the Japanese government with the help of its local partner in Japan, Mikuni Aerospace.
DoD
The U.S. Department of Defense has released a video showing part of the encounter between a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper and two Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets over the Black Sea on March 14 that resulted in the drone being lost. This seems to confirm that one of the Su-27s struck the drone’s propeller, although it remains unclear to what degree that action was deliberate or a misjudgment.
The development of the Island Defence ASM – seen here on display at the DSEI Japan 2023 show – has been allocated funding of USD257 million in the 2023 defence budget. (Janes/Jon Grevatt)
Japanese company Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has unveiled a model of a new long-range cruise missile at the DSEI Japan 2023 exhibition in Chiba.
KHI told Janes that the weapon – known tentatively as the ‘Island Defence’ anti-ship missile (ASM) – is designed to be launched from warships, aircraft, and land platforms.
The ACURL is used to develop, verify, and validate mission data files and allows Australia, the UK (jet pictured) and Canada the capability to reprogramme F-35 mission data to quickly execute sovereign missions,
Janes
has been told.
(Janes/Patrick Allen)
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has contracted Lockheed Martin to establish full operating capability (FOC) of the Australia Canada United Kingdom Reprogramming Laboratory (ACURL) for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
Over the Black Sea, the United States has published video evidence depicting the collision between a Russian fighter jet and its MQ-9 Reaper drone.
Today, the declassified video was revealed.
Earlier, the US military reported that a Russian fighter jet dropped fuel on an MQ reaper drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, forcing the drone to crash.
What is the video depicting?
https://militaryview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/WhatsApp-Video-2023-03-16-at-4.25.54-PM.
Tactical information technology maker MilDef has been awarded a subcontract to support the British Army’s upgraded Challenger 3 main battle tanks (MBT).
The contract has been awarded by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL), a UK-based joint venture business between Germany’s Rheinmetall and BAE Systems Land UK.
It is valued at approximately £2.5m.
As the component supplier, the Swedish firm will be responsible for supplying its Generic Vehicle Architecture-compliant processors and ethernet switches throughout the life of the new Challenger 3 programme.
ATLA displayed the Type 16 MCV at the DSEI Japan 2023 exhibition in Chiba. (Janes/Jon Grevatt)
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) plans to procure a total of 250 Type 16 Mobile Combat Vehicles (MCVs), Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) told
Janes
on 15 March at the DSEI Japan 2023 exhibition in Chiba.
ATLA officials said the JGSDF has ordered and taken delivery of about 100 MCVs and orders for 150 additional vehicles – including variants – are expected in the next few years.
