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The Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark have collaborated to refurbish and supply 100 Leopard-1A5 tanks to Ukraine.
The effort involves the three nations jointly purchasing refurbished Leopard-1A5 main battle tanks (MBTs) directly from existing German industrial stocks.
A still from a video released by the Kuwait Army shows Sheikh Talal Khaled al-Ahmad al-Sabah inspecting an H225M with a launcher for MBDA Exocet anti-ship missiles during a visit to the Ali al-Salem Air Base. (Kuwait Army)
At least two of the Kuwait Air Force’s (KAF’s) new Airbus H225M Caracal helicopters have been equipped for the anti-ship role, it was revealed on 5 February, when the emirate’s acting defence minister visited the Ali al-Salem Air Base.
BAE Systems has delivered the 1,000th aft fuselage section about 18 years after F-35 production began in 2005. (BAE Systems)
The final assembly of the 1,000th Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has begun, with BAE Systems announcing the delivery of the aft fuselage section on 7 February.
BAE Systems announced the milestone delivery from its Samlesbury facility in the North of England, noting that it came about 18 years after it shipped the first aft fuselage to Lockheed Martin in 2005.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s 60th birthday on Dec. 21, 1939, marked the nadir of the Red Army’s military campaign in Finland. A few weeks earlier, the party head of the Leningrad District, Andrei Zhdanov, had boasted he would personally deliver the signed documents of Finland’s surrender as his birthday gift to the vozhd or “leader,” […]
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The Chinese spy balloon business has gotten a lot more serious in the last few hours, and it was serious enough, to begin with.
Of course, there are many questions following the shooting down of the balloon by the US Air Force on Saturday off the coast of South Carolina.
A Ukrainian governor said Russia was sending reinforcements to eastern Ukraine ahead of a new offensive that could start next week along a front where constant battles have been fought for months.
Ukraine is desperate for military help from the West. It thinks Russia could launch a major offensive for “symbolic” reasons around February 24, the invasion anniversary. Moscow insists on calling this a “special military operation.”
Ukraine is planning a spring offensive to recapture lost territory.
The S-400 Triumf, also known as the SA-21 Growler in NATO reporting, is Russia’s latest long- and medium-range surface-to-air missile system. It entered service in 2007.
FEBRUARY 6 — NEW DELHI, /TASS/. Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov stated on Monday that the final shipment of S-400 air defence systems to India is nearing completion.
I can confidently state that the third batch of S-400 supply orders will be fulfilled very soon.
It is clear that Russia is not giving up the Su-57 Checkmate fifth-generation light tactical fighter project. Despite the difficulties in its development and financing, Moscow intends to go ahead with a plan it announced early last year.
However, as far as is known, the Su-75 project is currently almost on hold, as many Russian resources go to finance the war in Ukraine.
In this context, the Russian news agency TASS has reported that Moscow will present the Checkmate at the upcoming Aero India 2023 military exhibition.
The US Navy has released the first images of their efforts to recover the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down on Saturday. The balloon was shot down about six miles off the coast of South Carolina, within American territorial waters, by an F-22 Raptor hailing from the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base, […]
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11th Airborne Division troops watch an atomic explosion at close range on November 1, 1951. (Getty Images photo).
In the winter of 1981, CBS correspondents Dan Rather and Harry Reasoner traveled to West Germany to observe a little bit of U.S. Army training for a television segment titled The Defense of the United States: The Nuclear Battlefield. There, they followed a unit in the field training for the possibility of a fight that would be waged on a nuclear battlefield.
