Despite what some of the branches seemed to believe between 2008 and 2015, camouflage in the United States military is not meant to be a special uniform for each branch, it serves a purpose. It’s a deception tool, meant to keep the enemy from observing movement, to conceal locations, and, hopefully, keep them from hitting your side with a barrage of bullets.
If the Navy “blueberries” – the Type 1 uniform that actually stuck around until 2019 – are any indication, blue uniforms aren’t the best idea.
Author: Michael
U.S. Army doctrine stresses the fundamental tasks of shoot, move and communicate. To ensure the lethality of the force, these tasks are expected of every soldier and are applied all the way up to main battle tanks. Delivering accurate and deadly fire is the tank’s purpose and maneuverability is key to its survivability on the battlefield. However, a multi-ton machine riding on tracks over uneven terrain doesn’t make for a very good gun platform from which to shoot. That’s where the stabilizer comes in.
Its vertically-stabilized gun helped the M4 Sherman support the infantry (U.S.
Sir Douglas Bader was a celebrated World War II pilot, who earned an array of decorations from the British Empire for his service in the war. On top of 22 aerial victories, he is credited with shared victories, nearly a dozen enemy aircraft damaged, and enough “probables” to make him an ace once over. He did it all in the early years of the war, and with an odd ace up his sleeve.
Bader flew with a handicap: he was missing both legs, both lost to an accident before the war.
Fighting off the United States wasn’t Vietnam’s only against-all-odds victory against a superior force. The Vietnam War wasn’t even the country’s most recent win against a bigger, more powerful country. While Afghanistan gets a lot of credit for being the “Graveyard of Empires,” little Vietnam should be considered as a close second.
Vietnam has been around in some form since long before French occupation, Japanese domination, or even communism came to Southeast Asia.
The COMSATBw spacecraft were developed in collaboration with Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and TESAT. The systems are the first dedicated military communications satellites operated by the Bundeswehr. (EADS Astrium)
Airbus will continue to operate and provide support for Germany’s military satellite communication (satcom) systems.
Announced by the Bundeswehr on 9 February, the company has been awarded a contract extension for the operation of the authority’s COMSATBw 1 and 2 satellites until 31 December 2028.
The deal is valued at EUR52.8 million (USD56.
The deal put forward to Russian criminals is pretty simple: If you join the Wagner Group to fight in Ukraine and survive at least six months, you get a pardon, guaranteed by Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. It sure beats rotting away in a Russian prison – or does it end up with you rotting away in a Russian graveyard?
On the outskirts of Bakinskaya Village in the Krasnodar region of Russia, a graveyard is slowly filling up with the remains of dead Wagner Group fighters.
China’s new KJ-200B special mission aircraft has several new or improved systems, compared with the earlier generation of KJ-200 AEW&C aircraft. (Janes/Akhil Kadidal)
A new version of the Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation (SAIC) KJ-200 ‘Moth’ airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft is undertaking flight trials for potential induction by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
In January 2023, images on Chinese social media showed the aircraft in low-observable, light grey operational colours.
HII broke ground on a new submarine-construction facility at the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia. (Janes/Michael Fabey)
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) broke ground on a new project that will support nuclear submarine construction at its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) yard in Virginia, the company confirmed on 9 February.
The Multi-Class Submarine Production Facility is one of three new facilities, enabling NNS to further support the construction and delivery of Columbia- and Virginia-class submarines.
A television screen, on 9 February 2023, showing news of North Korea’s military parade, during which the regime carried out its largest-known display of ICBMs. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
Pyongyang carried out the largest-known display of its long-range nuclear strike capabilities on 8 February when it celebrated the 75th founding anniversary of its army.
On display at the parade include about a dozen 11 axel transporter erector launcher (TEL) vehicles with what appears to be either the Hwaseong-16 or Hwaseong-17 two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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Defense Department employees are downloading mobile applications to their work telephones that pose “operational and cybersecurity risks,” the department’s inspector general said…