Russian mercenaries have stormed a sprawling metallurgical plant in the far north of Bakhmut that Ukrainian forces hoped to turn into a fortress.
In one video, a man claiming to be a Ukrainian soldier describes a battle with Wagner fighters at the AZOM metallurgical factory complex. Explosions and gunshots are heard as he speaks.
“The Russians have entered the industrial complex; we are trying to drive them out. They have barricaded themselves for the night. We are trying to assault their positions,” says the anonymous soldier.
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The US Department of Defense wants to make multiyear procurements of several kinds of missiles, including the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). (Lockheed Martin)
The US Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) newly unveiled fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget request includes USD315 billion for procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) – its largest sum ever for equipment modernisation.
According to budget documents released on 13 March, procurement would receive USD170 billion, up 3.8% from the FY 2023 enacted level. It would include USD61.
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Among the aviation-related developments in the U.S. Navy’s proposed budget for the 2024 Fiscal Year is a request for almost $1.53 billion in support of the development of a Next-Generation Fighter aircraft, or F/A-XX. This appears to be the first time the service has provided a hard unclassified dollar figure for any of its investments in this effort, which is understood to be seeking a stealthy sixth-generation crewed combat jet.
The Department of the Navy formally rolled out its Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal, which also includes requested funding for the U.S.
On the 382nd day of the war, Russia and Ukraine are locked in a bitter fight for the possession of Bakhmut in Donbas. Russian forces have made significant advances and are inside the city. But his advance has been costly and with its own problems.
Many casualties and internal divisions
In a short video titled “Wagner and Bakhmut,” the British Ministry of Defense assessed that the Russian army and the mercenary forces of the Wagner Group had lost between 20,000 and 30,000 soldiers killed or wounded in what has become the deadliest battle in the world conflict so far.
Over the past 30 years, the United States [1st] and Russia [2nd] have largely dominated the global arms market. However, the gap between these two countries has widened significantly between 2013-17 and 2018-22.
For example, sales of US military equipment represent 40% of world exports, while the market share of the Russian arms industry has fallen by 31%, standing at 16%. This is confirmed by the Stockholm International Institute for Peace Research [SIPRI] in a study that has just been published.
Lockheed Martin via Twitter.
For those of you active on Twitter, it would have been hard to miss the buzz surrounding the Oscars yesterday evening. Top Gun: Maverick, the second highest-grossing film of 2022, racked up an impressive total of six Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Film Editing and Visual Effects. The film’s sound team deservedly went on to win the Oscar for Best Sound.
North Korea announced that it launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine in protest against the US and South Korea’s military drills.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the country’s strategic cruise missiles were launched from the Yongung 8.24 submarine in the waters off the eastern city of Sinpo on the morning of March 12.
KCNA said the cruise missiles hit the target at sea after traveling 1,500 km for about 7,563 – 7,575 seconds.
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US Soldiers in an M1 Abrams tank compete in the Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany, in June 2018. The US Army will enhance 34 of its Abrams MBTs to the System Enhancement Package (SEP) v3 configuration if its FY 2024 budget request is enacted. (US Army )
If enacted, the US Army’s budget request would cut ground vehicles out of enduring programmes and reinvest in procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) for newer programmes, according to budget documents released on 13 March.