PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The Army is consolidating its offensive and defensive cyber portfolios under a single program executive office to improve efficiency and synergy from a management and budgeting standpoint.
The move is part of a larger push to consolidate all network functions and capabilities under a single PEO.
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Taiwan has bolstered its defense capabilities by arming its F-16s with new air-to-air missiles: The ROC Air Force announced that AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder missiles have been assigned to its F-16 Viper squadrons, deployed to respond to the increasing overflights of the PLA.
According to the plan, AIM-9X Block II missiles have been successfully installed on Taiwan’s 64 F-16Vs at Chiayi 4th Tactical Fighter Wing, an air force spokesperson said in a report. From the South China Morning Post.
The Biden administration wants help from Congress and its own internal “sprint teams” to boost military cooperation with its Australian and British partners that are part of the AUKUS alliance with the United States.
The AUKUS initiative, which kicked off in 2021, is focused on improving information sharing; integrating industrial bases and supply chains; and spurring technology advancements in undersea capabilities, quantum, artificial intelligence, cyber, hypersonics and other categories.
Russian MoD
Russia’s Defense Ministry (MoD) on Wednesday released a video it claims shows the destruction of a Ukrainian uncrewed surface vessel (USV) attempting to attack the Project 18280 Yuriy Ivanov class intelligence ship Ivan Khurs in the Black Sea about 90 miles northeast of Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait.
The video, published by the MoD’s official Zvezdanews outlet, shows the last seconds of what it says was a Ukrainian USV approaching the Ivan Khurs. Several tracer rounds, apparently from deck-mounted 14.
The Royal Air Force has taken delivery of the 22nd Atlas C1 (A400M) transport aircraft, thus completing the development and production phase.
The four-engine turboprop touched down at its new home of RAF Brize Norton, coming from Seville, where the Atlas is assembled, including the UK-made wings.
“Recent events in Sudan have once again illustrated the importance of tactical air mobility. Operating from a stark airfield, Atlas helped evacuate more than 2,200 people to safety.
Saab
As well as the confirmation that Kyiv is using swing-wing Su-24 Fencer combat jets to launch U.K.-supplied Storm Shadow conventionally armed cruise missiles, and that France will donate SCALP-EG cruise missiles, there is now possibility that another similar long-range weapon could reach the Ukrainian Air Force in the future. It emerged today that Germany could follow the United Kingdom’s lead and provide Ukraine with conventionally armed cruise missiles, in the form of the air-launched Taurus KEPD 350, according to at least one member of Berlin’s federal parliament.
Moscow says it is carrying out an anti-terror operation against a sabotage group that entered from Ukraine.
Overnight on Tuesday, drones struck a Russian border region as Moscow forces pushed ahead with an “anti-terrorist operation” following one of the biggest cross-border raids from Ukraine in the 15-month war.
The drones hit homes and a government building in Belgorod, but caused no deaths or injuries, the region’s governor Viacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
Ukrainian troops from the Donbas region found themselves dramatically outnumbered by Russian soldiers in the disputed Battle of Bakhmut.
Faced with severe ammunition shortages, The New Yorker reported from the trenches outside Bakhmut in mid-March that the Ukrainians were being forced to ration their mortar shells, limiting them to just five a day, compared to about 300 during the earlier fighting at Kherson, when supplies were readily available.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian lieutenant colonel, Pavlo, told the news outlet that the Russian military used roughly ten times that amount.
Ukraine MOD
A photo released by the Ukrainian government depicts a Ukrainian Air Force Su-24 Fencer combat jet armed with a Storm Shadow conventionally armed cruise missile supplied by the United Kingdom. The image goes a long way to confirm the use of the Su-24 as the launch platform for those missiles. The Su-24 is one of just two Ukrainian Air Force types that we have, in the past, highlighted as readily feasible launch platforms for this weapon.
Guardians that are protecting the Space Force’s “base-level” networks will soon move onto conducting more critical operational cybersecurity missions, the head of Space Operations Command (SpOC) said Wednesday.
Currently, not all of the service’s career cyber personnel are providing capabilities that are directly related to the Space Force’s core missions. Instead, they’re monitoring networks like emails and telephone communications, said SpOC Commander Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting.