The second IRIS-T air defense system has been shipped from Germany to Ukraine. Germany has added eight Zetros off-road trucks and two cargo-handling trucks with eight roll-on containers to Ukraine’s military aid list, which was updated on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Ukrinform, Ukraine’s official news agency, reported that two more IRIS-T systems would be shipped as soon as they were ready.
The first IRIS-T system was shipped from Germany to Ukraine in October of that year. Earlier, he also declared that the Patriot missile defense system would soon be arriving in Kyiv.
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The US Army chief of staff has suspended all pilots not involved in critical missions from duty since Friday until they complete the necessary training after four helicopters crashed in a matter of weeks.
In Alaska on Thursday, two AH-64 Apache helicopters collided, killing three service members and injuring a fourth. At the end of last month, two Black Hawks crashed in Kentucky, killing nine.
General James McConville “ordered a suspension of aviation following the two fatal helicopter crashes that claimed the lives of 12 soldiers.
Ukrainian soldiers operate a PKT heavy machine gun atop a remote-controlled turret using a Steam Deck in mid-April. (TPO Media).
Soldiers in Ukraine are reportedly using video game controllers to operate remote-controlled machine gun turrets as part of the Ukrainian military’s efforts to repel Russian invaders.
In an April 21 Facebook post, Ukrainian news outlet TPO Media published photos and videos showing Ukrainian soldiers using a Steam Deck — the Linux-based handheld gaming console released by Valve in February of last year — to operate a so-called ‘Sabre’ weapons platform.
At least some of the 5-inch Zuni air-launched rockets pledged to Ukraine by the United States have now been delivered, according to new photos. The unguided rockets appear to be in use with the Ukrainian Air Force’s Su-25 Frogfoot attack aircraft, which have so far been extensively used for attacks on Russian positions using Soviet-era rockets, supplies of which are apparently now running low.
Су-25 та 127мм некеровані авіаційні ракети Zuni pic.twitter.
Picture of Andrews tweeted by Jack Hanrahan.
Marine veteran Cooper “Harris” Andrews has been killed while fighting near Bakhmut, Ukraine, according to CNN, which spoke to Andrews’ mother and colleagues.
Willow Andrews told CNN that her son was killed on April 19 during a mortar attack along a road that the Ukrainian military uses to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Bakhmut. His body has not yet been recovered due to the intense fighting in the area, she said.
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, America and its allies began drawing from their own military stockpiles to aid Kyiv in its defense. At the same time, governments fearing an escalated conflict with Russia increased military spending and procurement. To replenish its stockpiles and provide more aid to allies, the U.S. Army awarded a Not-to-Exceed $4.79 billion contract to Lockheed Martin for HIMARS and other rockets and associated equipment to be completed by 2026.
The M270 MLRS is based on the chassis of the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (U.S.
The Army is now searching for an initial solution for a portable electronic warfare system, the first such program-of-record system in years.
“We recently, through our other transaction authority consortium, we released a request for white papers asking industry to come with a manpack solution for a small form factor, electronic attack and electronic sense capability,” Mark Kitz, program executive officer for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors, said during a presentation at the C4ISRNET Conference April 26.
In 1959 the U.S. Army created Project Horizon, a secret attempt to colonize the moon. Today we’re looking at the project’s declassified weapons.
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The U.S. Air Force will be relocating 19 refueling tankers to the Powidz Air Base in western Poland in order to further strengthen NATO’s eastern flank as the war in Ukraine continues.
The USAF European command confirmed in March that “American air tankers began working in their new main location in Poland,” according to Zerohedge.
The relocation comes as part of operation “Copper Arrow” which is part of the U.S.
The US Army, along with its allies and partners, have commenced Combined Resolve 18 (CBR 18), a combat training exercise in Germany.
It is being held in the Hohenfels Training Area’s 7th Army Training Command’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center from 21 April to 23 May.
The exercise, directed by the US Army Europe and Africa, involves the participation of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and 15 allies and partners.
More than 4,000 personnel are scheduled to take part in the drills.