Russia will react to reports that Ukraine expects the delivery of Western tanks. Challenger 2 and Leopard will come from Kyiv’s European allies, and Washington will send Abrams. Logically, Moscow will not be idle and began to show it immediately after the news of future supplies to Ukraine.
On January 14, an improved Mi-28NM helicopter was observed in Ukraine days before the decision to deploy tanks to Kyiv. Almost five years ago, this version was first employed in combat in Syria.
So delighted is Russia with the chopper that it placed an order for 100 of them.
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A four-star Air Force general has told his officers to prepare for war with China within two years — instructing them to drill service members “with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most.”
“I hope I am wrong,” Mike Minihan, head of the 50,000-member Air Mobility Command, wrote in the chilling Friday memo, NBC News reported. “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”
The Department of Defense sought to downplay the memo.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Two U.S. Navy sailors assigned to a pair of aircraft carriers died by suicide this month. The deaths, one in Virginia and one in Washington state, bring the total of Navy suicides in the last two months up to three.
A sailor assigned to the USS George Washington died on Monday, Jan. 23. Military.com first reported the news, confirming it was a suicide at a private residence at Newport News, Virginia, not aboard the aircraft carrier. The sailor’s name has not been released.
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This is a rapidly developing story and details are bound to change, but as it sits now, explosions rocked an Iranian Ministry of Defense ammunition plant in the central Iranian city of Isfahan amid reports of blasts in three other cities.
Video captured one of the explosions in Isfahan as security forces swarmed the area around the facility. The Iranian Ministry of Defense later claimed three drones targeted the installation in a “failed attack” that caused no casualties and damaged only the building’s rooftop.
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Fighting around the southeastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar has intensified in recent days as Russian forces continue their offensive in the Donbas.
Located to the southwest of Donetsk proper, the town has started bearing the brunt of Russian firepower.
Location of Vuhledar, Ukraine. (Google Maps)
Footage from the area shows Ukrainian fire destroying multiple Russian armored vehicles in recent days’ attacks on the town.
U.S. Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, incoming Air Mobility Command commander, prepares to give his first salute during the AMC Change of Command at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, Oct. 5, 2021. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Isaac Olivera).
A top U.S. Air Force general is not only preparing for the possibility of an armed conflict with China, but believes it will happen in the next two years.
“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025,” Air Mobility Command (AMC) commander Gen. Mike Minihan wrote in a recently-released memo forward dated for Feb.
Host L Todd Wood speaks to ‘Alex’ on the inside in Kyiv as to what is happening with American aid.
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Thursday saw the successful launch of a rocket carrying a government radar satellite designed to gather intelligence that would be used to enhance disaster response and keep tabs on advancements at North Korean military installations.
The radar satellite can capture terrain images at night and during adverse weather conditions. According to the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, which commissioned Mitsubishi Heavy to launch, it can be used to transmit data in the event of a natural catastrophe.
After a one-day delay due to severe weather, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd’s No.
PARIS, FRANCE – In late 2022, the French DGA completed qualification testing of the AASM 1000 GS bomb and its support system. The bomb was developed by Safran Electronics & Defense under an 85 million euro contract awarded by the DGA in 2017.
The AASM 1000 consists of a guidance kit that uses GPS, an inertial system, and a [engine] kit that increases its range.
FILE – This Nov. 13, 2013 file photo shows the main gate of Camp Pendleton Marine Base at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Lenny Ignelzi, Associated Press).
U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton closed the base’s main gate Friday evening after a car rammed it in an attempt to get onto the base.
The incident happened at 6:30 p.m. on Jan 27. The Marine Corps confirmed that someone attempted to “gain unauthorized access to the installation.”
“The MCB Camp Pendleton Provost Marshall Office deployed the final denial barriers and disabled the vehicle,” base staff tweeted at 8:39 p.m.