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While the transfer of the first donated MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets to Ukraine — from Slovakia and Poland — has been widely reported, including by The War Zone, the origin story of these aircraft is a complicated and fascinating.
Marine Pfc. Aimal Taraki, who left Afghanistan after serving as an interpreter for U.S. forces, graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on April 7, 2023. Lance Cpl. Alexander Devereux/U.S. Marine Corps.
A former Afghan interpreter who served with the U.S. Marines in his home country has earned the title of Marine.
Pfc. Aimal Taraki, who graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on April 7, said he was inspired to join the Corps by his time working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, according to a Marine Corps news story.
The Air Force’s electronic warfare “sprint” will focus on identifying gaps and directing new systems to buy to close them, according to a senior service official.
In September, the Air Force announced a sprint within its office of the deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and cyber effects operations, A2/6, to do analysis on gaps and requirements concerning the electromagnetic spectrum and electromagnetic spectrum operations, or EMSO.
Historic ties as the foundation of Philippine modernisation
The leaders of the United States and the Philippines met to discuss their nations’ military, economic, and humanitarian cooperation partnerships.The discussions in Washington, DC, focused on the mutual defence treaty signed between the two countries in 1951.
According to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, the treaty “remains the bedrock of our cooperation” and still applies to armed attacks on either nation’s armed forces or public vessels anywhere in the South China Sea.
A steel-cutting ceremony for the Turkish Navy’s three follow-on Istanbul-class frigates was staged at Sedef Shipyard on 11 April. The ships will be built concurrently at Sefine, Anadolu, and Sedef shipyards and delivered to the Turkish Navy within 36 months. (STM)
A steel-cutting ceremony for the Turkish Navy’s three follow-on Istanbul (TF-100)-class frigates was staged at Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, on 11 April.
The three ships, which will be the second, third, and fourth ships of the Istanbul class, will be built concurrently at Sefine, Anadolu, and Sedef shipyards.
As the U.S. military services work to stand up a zero-trust architecture by 2027, the Army is currently only in the “crawl phase” on the journey to implement the modern security model across its enterprise, a top Army cybersecurity official said Tuesday.
“I’d say we’re still at the crawl phase, which is what can we even implement to actually properly identify the [Army’s disparate sources of] data,” Colten O’Malley, deputy commander and CISO for the Army Command and Control Support Agency, said during a panel at the CrowdStrike Government Summit.
U.S. Cyber Command is requesting $89.4 million for a key offensive cyber platform for fiscal 2024, the first such budget numbers for the system that are publicly available.
The Joint Common Access Platform (JCAP) will allow the Department of Defense’s cyber operators to connect to their targets beyond friendly firewalls. It had been run by the Army since 2020 as the executive agent for Cybercom. Previously, it had been classified in budget documents, lending little information regarding its programmatic details and funding numbers.
Host L Todd Wood speaks with Major General Richard Comer (USAF, Ret) on the first night of the Gulf War, where he lead formations of MH-53J Pave Lows, and Army Apache helicopters on the first mission of the conflict.
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History is replete with examples of how weather directly affects the outcomes of military operations and causes planners to attempt to negate and avoid those effects.
Here is the impact of weather on war:
Wind and waves
One of the earliest recorded stories of unusual weather in war comes from the two attempts by the Mongols, under Genghis Khan’s grandson Kublai, to invade Japan. In the autumn of 1274, a fleet between 500 to 1,000 Mongol ships appeared off the east coast of Japan, carrying over 30,000 troops.
U.S. Marines Firing a Mortar
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The U.S. launched several airstrikes on the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on Tuesday. According to reports, the strikes focused on the regions of Hatla and Kasham.
Coalition Forces responded to a rocket attack in Dier ez-Zor, Syria at approximately 5:51 p.m., April 10, 2023.“These attacks are reckless and needlessly endanger the people of northeast Syria,” said Maj. Gen. Matthew McFarlane, CJTFOIR Commander. 👇https://t.
