U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to dispatch MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems in to Ukraine, despite previously having stated his opposition to such a transfer on multiple occasions in recent weeks. The president blamed the actions of the Russian government, and specifically President Vladimir Putin, for leading the United State to make such a decision. “We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need, because Putin really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then bombs everybody in the evening. But there’s a little bit of a problem there.
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It’s been battered, broken, on fire, and almost always spewing a pillar of black smoke, and now the Admiral Kuznetsov might be at the end of its service.
The pro-Kremlin Russian newspaper Izvestia recently reported that the Russian military might be giving up on getting its troubled and only aircraft carrier back into service. Citing high ranking “informed sources,” they said the carrier might be decommissioned and broken down for scrap. The reason? The high costs of repairs and the greater focus on smaller, automated weapons systems in war.
German Major General Christian Freuding has revealed that Berlin is poised to conclude a major defence procurement agreement with the United States to acquire two MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence systems for delivery to Ukraine. The deal is reportedly set to be finalised during an official visit by German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to the United States, and follows a
The Russian Armed Forces are estimated to have received over 12 million rounds of 152mm artillery shells from North Korea, according to a new report from the South Korean Defence Ministry’s Defence Intelligence Agency. “If calculated with 152mm single shells, the number of supplied shells is presumed to have reached more than 12 million,” the agency’s report stated. During a three day visit to the North Korean capital Pyongyang, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed thanks for the support of the Korean People’s Army in expelling Ukrainian and supporting Western forces from the Russian Kursk region. Ukrainian forces supported by Western volunteer and contractor units launched their first protected assault into internationally recognised Russian territory in August 2024, and were expelled only in April the following year. A four-person rescue team from the U.S. Coast Guard were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for their actions helping to rescue almost 200 flood victims in Texas this past week. The U.S. military has a long history of developing vehicles it never actually fields. The Army’s Future Combat Systems died on the vine. The Ground Combat Vehicle was canceled before production. The Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program has been stopped and started more times than most troops will change duty stations in a career. And of course, the M10 Booker, the not-light-tank the Army had to have, was killed off after about 80 were delivered. On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s forward magazines, triggering a massive explosion that killed 182 of the crew. Roughly 100 feet of the bow was blown off, sinking beneath the waves. Mike Cherney, Wall Street Journal
The members of Rescue 6553, based out of Air Station Corpus Christi, flew into Kerr County, shortly after a massive downpour caused much of the area to flood. For their actions, pilot Lt. Ian Hopper and rescue swimmer Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Ruska received the Distinguished Flying Cross. The award is given for “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight.
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The Battle of Tassafaronga saw approximately 400 American losses and the loss of a destroyer. The USS New Orleans would have joined them if not for the surviving crew’s refusal to abandon ship.
In the rugged hills outside this coastal city, Japanese and Australian artillery crews fired in tandem…