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Folsom’s openness sets this book apart from other war memoirs, particularly those written by officers.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy inspected Challenger tanks and met some Ukrainian troops on Wednesday during a visit to a British army base in western England.
Zelenskyy, on a rare trip abroad, met King Charles III at Buckingham Palace after addressing politicians in Parliament, where he renewed his call for fighter jets, saying his country needed “wings for freedom.
Ukrainian troops on the southern and eastern fronts have been preparing for months for the long-awaited Russian spring offensive, with which Moscow hopes to return its forces to the front after a year of deep withdrawals, gradual advances, and heavy losses.
Intensifying fighting on the southern and eastern fronts could herald the arrival of the much-feared Russian offensive.
“Russia is preparing for a rematch,” President Volodymyr Zelensky declared in early February in an interview on Fox News. “I think it has already started or not at all. We’ll see in the coming weeks.
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Video has emerged on social media of what appears to be a Russian unmanned vessel attacking a bridge south of Odesa.
Russian media and milbloggers are claiming the road and railway bridge in Zatoka in the Odesa region was hit by an unmanned surface vessel. The actual damage to the bridge, which links the region with the rest of Ukraine, could not immediately be ascertained.
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Poland has already set up an “Abrams Academy” to prepare its military to use the American-made tanks it has ordered. It intends to establish a comparable center to educate European HIMARS rocket launcher pilots.
The US military is planning to establish a training center in Europe to teach NATO allies how to use High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, a voice of America (VOA) told a senior US general, amid growing demand for these systems in Eastern Europe following the weapon’s successes in Ukraine.
The Balkan has received eyewitness reports from trusted sources that a missile exploded today over the skies of Romania near a military base outside of Cluj-Napoca in the northwestern part of the country. The explosion shook buildings in nearby Florești. Eyewitnesses report that the missile came from the northwest, in the direction of Poland. No damage has been reported and Romania officially denies any incident took place, but something is clearly amiss.
The Spanish Air and Space Army will soon begin arming its four Predator B drones with bombs and missiles, according to Chris King on euroweeklynews.com. These UAVs are currently in service at the 233 Squadron of the Talavera la Real air base, located in Badajoz.
According to the Revista de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica, an official publication of the Air Force, work will begin to assemble these drones, operational since the beginning of 2021.
The initial configuration of these drones is for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.
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Iraq’s Army wants to replace its fleet of Russian-made Mi-17 Hip armed transport helicopters with a mixture of Bell 412EPXs and Bell 412Ms produced in the United States. The significantly reduced availability of Mi-17 spare parts due to Russia’s own needs as a result of its war on Ukraine has been a major factor in these plans. The Iraqi Army’s aviation arm is also looking to acquire a variety of other helicopters from Bell, a company that just recently said publicly that it is trying to take advantage of new market opportunities created by the conflict in Ukraine.
Less than a week after the Air Force shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, President Biden ordered the U.S. military to attack an “object” that was flying off the coast of Alaska, officials said Friday.
“I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours,” John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, told reporters during a press briefing Friday afternoon.