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Ukrainian forces have put an advanced Russian BMPT Terminator armored fighting vehicle out of commission for the first time, according to the Ukrainian Marines. The Terminator is a relatively new addition to Russia’s ground arsenal and only a small number of them are known to be in service, making this kill quite the trophy for the Ukrainian military.
Members of the Ukrainian Marine Corps’ 140th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion helped destroy the BMPT, according to a post on the service’s official Facebook page.

A Turkish woman is winning hearts by kissing an Indian Army officer on the cheek. The officer is in the quake-stricken country to help with rescue and relief work.
The Indian Army posted a picture of the two women with the caption “We Care.” This was a great way to show how quickly India helped its “dost” Turkey.
India started Operation Dost to help Turkey and Syria after Monday’s earthquakes and aftershocks, which caused buildings to fall and cities to be leveled.

A Special Forces Soldier conducts weapons training with partner forces on a range in Southwest Asia, Sept. 2, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kyle Alvarez).

The U.S. military’s Global War on Terrorism may be heating up again on distant battlefields, but a bipartisan group of American lawmakers at home is pushing to rein in the ever-expanding global campaign by repealing part of its legislative foundation.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Todd Young (R-IN), joined by Reps.

The Army Research Laboratory plans to evaluate unmanned platforms and autonomy technology at Aberdeen Proving Ground this summer, and it’s reaching out to industry to see who wants to participate.
Capability areas of interest for ARL’s Tech Assess ’23 event include autonomous mobility, air-ground teaming, coordinated behaviors of unmanned platforms, object tracking and identification, “global localization,” human language-guided operations, and weather-resistant drones, according to a request for information published on Sam.gov.

The “indiscriminate” adoption and use of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and autonomous systems for military applications could carry catastrophic global consequences if left unchecked, warns a new report from an arms control and national security nonprofit.
In the report, the Arms Control Association calls on policymakers, defense officials, and others to better explore the consequences of the rapid adoption of emerging tech for operational military applications and develop a framework to reduce the escalatory risks of doing so.

Spying is often bitter, hard-fought, and can even be brutal, but the players all generally know the rules.
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North Korea’s latest military parade once again saw intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, take center stage, with the country’s biggest-ever display of these weapons, including around a dozen examples of the Hwasong-17, its largest ICBM design to date and very likely the largest road-mobile missile of its kind. At the same time, Pyongyang showed off a mock-up or a possible prototype of what could be a future solid-fuel ICBM design, which would be a significant development for the country’s rapidly evolving strategic missile forces.

The internet is full of myths about advanced Nazi technology… but just how much truth is there to these popular stories?
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The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led to a sharp increase in military spending in many countries, including Russia. While the Kremlin is generally keen to promote its big-ticket defense programs, above all to help generate lucrative export sales, it’s far less simple to get a handle on how much Russia itself is currently spending on these various weapons.

On a recent trip, Sandboxx News and Stu Bradin, the head of the Global SOF Foundation, visited the 7th Special Forces Group (this author’s and Bradin’s old unit) at Camp Bull Simons and while there we got to get inside the newest special operations helicopter, the improved MH-47G Chinook. Special Forces teams were conducting training […]
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