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In recent weeks and months, Russia and Ukraine have been striking each other’s energy infrastructure, which has affected global energy markets to the point where President Donald Trump has been pushing the two countries to agree to a ceasefire in such attacks.

And now, Russia’s attacks have hit another essential part of Ukraine’s economy.

MSTA-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Msta-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The Navy formally established a new center Thursday at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia that’s expected to play a major role in shaping how the sea service fights with uncrewed systems.
The Robotic and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center (RASWDC) will bring “operational coherence” that’s needed for the integration of unmanned platforms across the fleet with the Navy’s general-purpose forces, according to an unclassified administrative message from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle that was posted Thursday on a Navy HR website.

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — U.S. Northern Command’s next Falcon Peak exercise will focus for the first time on safely integrating and demonstrating counter-drone capabilities in a dense city setting that’s bustling with human activity, Brig. Gen. Jason “Ox” Rueschhoff told DefenseScoop on Thursday.
“Homeland defense is not about protecting from outside, it’s also protecting inside,” said Rueschhoff, Northcom’s director of operations. “We could do one without taking care of the other, and that’s not the right answer.

Joe Walsh joined the Eagles as a guitarist and keyboardist in 1975.
Since then, he has achieved a level of fame and wealth that he didn’t think possible while he was a youth in Wichita, Kansas. The perks of becoming a world-renowned musician are not lost on the 78-year-old Walsh, but they don’t insulate him from the realities of losing a loved one.
Walsh was only 20 months old when his father, Army Air Corps Lt. Robert Newton Fidler, died in a midair collision over Okinawa, Japan, on July 22, 1949.