On Tuesday, a top US general said that the F-16 that recently attempted to shoot down a mystery object over Lake Huron had failed on its first attempt.
In a joint press conference held in Brussels with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, stated that the US Air Force F-16 missed its first shot during an operation carried out in out Sunday to shoot down what the Pentagon called an “airborne object.
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The new SWIR REV III – developed by the DRDO’s Instruments Research and Development Establishment – displayed at the Aero India 2023 show in Bangalore. (Janes/Kasthurica Panigrahy)
India’s Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has displayed its short wave infra-red (SWIR) REV III multisensor optical payload for the Dhruv Mk III light helicopter at the Aero India 2023 show, being held in Bangalore from 13 to 17 February.
NATO is considering the eventual procurement of Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail aircraft to gain an IOC for its Alliance Future Surveillance and Control capability. (Boeing)
NATO will probably lean towards an eventual procurement of Boeing’s E-7 Wedgetail aircraft to gain an initial operating capability (IOC) for its planned multidomain Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) capability, according to allied officials. AFSC is supposed to replace NATO’s ageing fleet of Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACSs) by 2035.
A Boeing AH-64E Apache of the Indian Air Force during the Aero India 2023 show in Bangalore. (Janes/Akhil Kadidal)
The first Boeing AH-64E fuselage for the Indian Army has rolled off the assembly line, with Boeing preparing to deliver the six attack helicopters early next year.
Alain Garcia, vice-president of business development in India, Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Global Services, told
Janes
that the first AH-64E fuselage for India had come off the assembly line at the company’s Indian factory in Hyderabad on 19 January.
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It’s been three days since the U.S. shot down a balloon-like object over North America. That would have seemed like a totally bizarre statement to make just a couple of weeks ago, but it’s not after recent events. U.S. Air Force F-22s and F-16s have brought shot down four objects in just over one week.
While these are truly unprecedented events, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to War Zone readers as two years ago we laid out the case for how adversaries, using relatively low-tech aerial capabilities, have been spying on the U.S.
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The U.S. military and U.S. Intelligence Community are still trying to sort out the details about three objects that remain unidentified days after they were shot down in different areas within American and Canadian airspace. One organization has remained noticeably absent from much of the official disclosures about the responses to these incidents, the Pentagon’s fledgling All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO. This is both conspicuous and curious since this office was created specifically to focus on issues relating to so-called unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.
(Alona Nikolaievych/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Despite massive Russian attacks against its power and fuel supply infrastructure, Ukraine claims it has actually increased its fuel reserves to the point of surplus thanks to the influx of imports and an innovative logistics operation using thousands of fuel trucks as mobile storage sites.
Ukraine began receiving large amounts of fuel in January from the U.S.
U.S. Army photo by Training Resource Specialist Charles Rosemond.
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed earlier today near Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama, leaving no survivors. Footage from the scene of the crash, as well as video taken in a residential area near the crash site showing rising black smoke in the distance, can be seen below.
An Unidentified Military Helicopter has reportedly crashed onto a Highway in Huntsville, Alabama sometime within the last hour. pic.twitter.
Ukrainian TV screencap / Courtesy Photo / Google Maps
Ukrainian armed forces shot down several balloons with radar reflectors suspended beneath them that were spotted flying over or near the capital Kyiv on Wednesday, according to officials in that country. This appears to be an emerging Russian tactic that could be used to gather intelligence about Ukraine’s air defense capabilities, baiting them into wasting precious ammunition and other resources, or otherwise distracting or confusing their operators.
An Iranian-made drone is seen in the sky seconds before it fired on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky).
A new report from the Defense Intelligence Agency has confirmed that Russia is using Iranian-made drones in Ukraine after months of reports based on open-source intelligence.
The new unclassified report “provides a visual comparison of UAVs used by Russian forces in Ukraine and Iranian UAVs used to attack U.S. and partner interests in the Middle East,” according to its summary.