Russia is bleeding up to 1,500 men a day in the Ukraine war — enough that the army must rebuild a full division every two weeks just to stand still. A national mobilization would fix it, but that’s the one order Putin won’t give: last time he tried, hundreds of thousands fled. So he built something else — a quiet machine for finding bodies without ever signing the decree. It’s running out of room, and the day he’s been dodging only gets worse.
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Ukraine’s drone war has entered a phase its commanders call a ‘logistics lockdown,’ and it’s taking out things Russia can’t replace. The latest strike hit an aircraft plant inside Russia and destroyed two rare planes that sat in maintenance for over a decade. But it’s what one of them does that makes the loss sting: it’s part of the system Moscow uses to reach its nuclear-armed submarines at sea. Russia spent years getting it ready — Ukraine needed seconds.
For many Americans, their first introduction to Bruce Crandall was his portrayal by Greg Kinnear in the 2002 film “We Were Soldiers.” While the film depicts the actions for which Crandall earned the Medal of Honor, the Army aviator had a distinguished career beyond his service in Vietnam.
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Born in Olympia, Washington in February 1933, Crandall was an All-American high school athlete and played baseball at the University of Washington with MLB hopes.
When China rolled the DF-17 through Beijing, it was unveiling a weapon built for one purpose: to sink American carriers before they get close. It flies too fast and turns too sharply for the defenses that stopped an earlier generation of missiles, and its reach covers nearly every U.S. base that matters in the Pacific. But the carrier-killer has a hidden weakness — and the Navy has built its defense around exploiting it. Whether that’s enough is the open question.
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Sandra Erwin, SpaceNews
Northrop Grumman has partnered with satellite manufacturing startup Apex to develop space-based interceptors for the Golden Dome missile defense program
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Lawmakers want the Army to examine the use of unmanned surface vessels to escort its watercraft against threats the ground branch may face during contested logistics
Cristina Stassis, Air Force Times
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Mark B. Schneider, National Institute for Public Policy
Engineered to outmatch any foreign adversary, the new battleship class will be the centerpiece of naval power.
Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration has placed another order for wide area air defence systems with Saab.