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The Ukrainian Army has made significant personnel redeployments to reinforce its positions in the Sumy region, where Russian Army units have continued to make considerable advances since late April. Responding to heavy casualties among Ukrainian Army units in the Sumy region, “elite units” were reported on June 28 to have been deployed to Yunakovka, where the Russian Army had been advancing. The Ukrainian Army had by then been pushed back from Russian-claimed territories by close to 14 kilometres in some areas of Sumy, and was continuing to withdraw.

The AIM-260 air-to-air missiles intended to equip frontline fifth and ‘4+ generation’ fighter aircraft in the U.S. Armed Forces has for the first time seen the Navy and Air Force publicly seek funds to support production and procurement. Under the services’ request for funding for Fiscal Year 2026, the Air Force is seeking $368.593 million for the missile, and the Navy $301.858 million. The need for the missile has grown increasingly urgent as Chinese

Vaccine sales are lagging and with President Trump and RFK Jr in charge, the big pharmaceutical companies are losing their grip on the government and their bottom line is taking a hit.
So naturally there is a terrifying sounding new COVID variant that is capturing the attention of the media – NB.1.8. -, and it’s got a dramatic new symptom to go with its sci-fi name: razor blade throat. 
Yes, that’s what the media’s calling it. Not just a sore throat — a razor blade throat.

An instructor pilot killed in a training mishap last year died after accidentally pulling the handle on his ejection seat, while not fully strapped in, Air Force investigators found. 
That’s one of the findings that the Air Force Accident Investigation Board reached after several months investigating the death of Capt. John Robertson at Sheppard Air Force Base last May. Robertson, a respected instructor pilot with the 80th Flying Training Wing, was inside a T-6A Texan II plane taxiing on the ground when the aircraft’s ejection seat suddenly activated, launching him 100 feet into the air.

More than half of the California National Guard’s specialized firefighting teams are deployed to Los Angeles County as part of the federal mission in the area, leaving the guard at only 40% of its firefighting operation capacity.
Eight of the guard’s 14 firefighting teams — operating under Task Force Rattlesnake — are among the more than 4,000 California National Guard troops currently under federal command, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced, as the state is well within its dangerous fire season.

The U.S. Army has committed to improving the survivability of its M1 Abrams main battle tanks with the allocation of over $107 million in funding for new vehicle protection systems. The funds are intended to cover development and operationalisation of stealth-enhancing coatings, passive armour kits, and new laser warning receivers.

Ukrainian government sources have confirmed the loss of an F-16 during recent engagements with Russian forces, and the death of pilot Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Ustimenko. Little else has been revealed regarding the incident, other than that it coincided with very large scale Russian strikes on Ukrainian targets, and that Ukrainian sources claim that Ustimenko had shot down seven Russian targets before crashing.

Footage released from an unknown location on the frontlines between Russian-Ukrainian forces has shown the extensive use of TOS-1A 220 millimetre thermobaric artillery to devastate Ukrainian forces in cover, in what appears to be a small industrial settlement reported to be in the disputed Donbas regions.