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An American Howitzer

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A top Department of Defense (DOD) official confirmed on Tuesday that American weapons provided to Ukraine have been captured by Russian forces on the battlefield. The U.S. has provided Ukraine with almost $45 billion in military aid over the past year.
According to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Colin Kahl, Moscow has been capturing American weapons from Ukrainian battlefields and selling them on the black market.

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has concluded the Thunderdome prototype project, a zero-trust security model at the enterprise level.
Thunderdome will help to defend and guard the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) systems against sophisticated adversaries by incorporating superior cybersecurity centred around data protection.
It leverages commercial technologies such as Secure Access Service Edge and Software Defined-Wide Area Networks and Application Security Stacks.

The Pentagon called the U.S. commitment to Taiwan “rock solid” and a contributor “to the maintenance of peace and stability” in the region.
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IAI ARC 840 SDR-NCO airborne communication system is compliant with the latest SCA 4.1 standard, set by the US Joint Tactical Networking Centre. (IAI)
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) subsidiary Elta Systems has launched a new airborne software-defined radio (SDR).
Announced by IAI on 2 March, the ARC 840 SDR – Network Centric Operations (SDR-NCO) system is the latest in Elta’s portfolio of military airborne communications that provides voice, video, and data communications.

An artist’s depiction shows an E-7A in flight. The E-7A is the Department of Defense’s future tactical battle management, command and control and moving target indication platform scheduled to replace the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System. (U.S. Air Force).

The jet which the U.S. Air Force will soon use to coordinate air battles has already earned its stripes helping the Royal Australian Air Force fight the Islamic State.

Saudi Arabia and the UK are to further the defence aviation co-operation that has seen the former operate a number of the latter’s combat aircraft types, such as the Eurofighter Typhoon. However, while the Saudi defence minister said that this would see his country join the UK in its FCAS effort, the UK MoD has said this is not the case, and that the two are instead pursuing “a partnering feasibility study” to look at future co-operation.

It has been 372 days since the Russian invasion began. On Thursday, the fighting continues on the ground with heavy combat in and around Bakhmut in the Donbas. Bakhmut under siege In the Donbas, the Russian forces have entered Bakhmut and there is heavy fighting on the streets of the Ukrainian town. The Russian troops […]
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Trenches in Bakhmut

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Top Zelensky officials are considering a potential ‘strategic pullback’ from the beleaguered eastern city of Bakhmut. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that he is not prepared to order the continued defense of the city at all costs. Both Ukraine and Russia are suffering tremendous casualties in the fight for the city, but Russia has superior artillery fire, which it has been using nonstop around the clock. The city is almost completely surrounded by Russian troops.

Australia expects to use on-order UH-60M Black Hawks to provide dedicated support for special forces operations. (Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation)
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has decided against acquiring 16 light helicopters to support special forces operations, Major General Stephen Jobson, the commander of the Australian Army’s Aviation Command, has disclosed.
Speaking to journalists at the Avalon 2023 international airshow on 1 March, Maj Gen Jobson said that project Land 2097 Phase 4 had been cancelled owing to forthcoming overlapping capabilities.

Brad Dress, The Hill
A Ukrainian presidential adviser on Tuesday said troops may “strategically pull back” from the town of Bakhmut, the focus of intense and brutal fighting for the past few…