The U.S. military has shot down high-altitude objects 4 times in 9 days, and the first 3 times were all dispatched by F-22 “Raptor” fighter jets. In order to shoot down relatively cheap high-altitude reconnaissance balloons or airships, the U.S. military has successively invested in the world’s most powerful stealth fighter, F-22, with a cost of 360 million U.S. dollars. The reason is attracting attention.
On the 4th of this month, the United States sent F-22 fighter jets to launch AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles from an altitude of 17.
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As Russian forces move closer to capturing the embattled Donetsk city of Bakhmut, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Moscow has launched its long-anticipated offensive.
According to several media accounts, Ukrainian military officials are sealing off the city to non-combatants, potentially a sign that Kyiv could be considering surrendering the long-fought for coal mining town.
APU machinegun position in #Bakhmut (MG-42 variant in 7.62x51mm). It appears to be a static battle of attrition with occasional RUS small unit advances on the city itself.
Ukrainian forces are also suffering heavy losses, according to the UK.
The Russian military is losing troops in Ukraine at the fastest rate so far this year, Britain claims. As Moscow’s long-awaited spring offensive gets underway, its soldiers are said to be dying in numbers not seen since the first week of the invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared last week that Russia had launched the planned attack, which analysts had warned about for weeks.
The British Ministry of Defense stated that the first stage of the assault dealt a heavy blow to the invading forces.
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In the wake of the latest shootdown of an unidentified object over North American airspace, we now have audio recordings of the in-cockpit communications from the two F-16 fighter jets involved in yesterday afternoon’s intercept over Lake Huron. What’s immediately striking on listening to them, is that the pilots in question also seem to be perplexed as to what they are actually observing and the precise nature of the craft that they ultimately dispatched.
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A new U.S. government team is being established at President Joe Biden’s direction to help examine the policy implications stemming from increased scrutiny of aerial activity over and around North America. In the past two weeks, U.S. fighter jets have shot down a total of four high-flying aerial objects in American and Canadian airspace, including one identified as a Chinese government surveillance balloon. The U.S. Air Force’s top officer said today that the full extent of what is now being observed and what threats they might pose is still being analyzed.
Adjustments made by North American Aerospace Defense Command to enhance radar and fine-tune associated detection assets at certain altitudes “may at least partly explain the increase in objects” that have been tracked and shot down over the past few days, senior Defense Department officials told reporters Sunday evening.
The changes were instituted after a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon traversed much of North America earlier this month and was eventually downed at President Biden’s direction. At least three mysterious platforms that U.S.
The Air Force’s new unmanned task force in the Middle East has kicked off operational evaluation of its drones, according to the commander of U.S. Air Forces Central.
Task Force 99, modeled off the Navy’s Task Force 59 that operates under 5th Fleet, was stood up in October at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, as the Pentagon looks for new ways to deploy robotic platforms for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and other missions.
Boris Obnosov, CEO of the Tactical Missiles Corporation, reportedly emphasizes in all of his interviews the utmost efficacy of the project, which was originally founded on the partners’ mutual respect.
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New Delhi: Defence Ministry’s firm Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is all set to display 15 made-in-India helicopters, including an advanced light helicopter, delivered to Mauritius ahead of schedule.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 14th edition of Asia’s largest aero show — Aero India 2023 — in Bangalore on Monday.
According to a report, China plans to triple its nuclear warheads to 900 by 2035.
A source close to the issue told Kyodo News on Saturday that China is considering raising its nuclear weapons stockpile to 900 by 2035, as tensions with the United States are projected to increase further over Taiwan.
The plan, drafted by the People’s Liberation Army, has been authorized by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the military chief, who has been eager to increase Beijing’s deterrent against the United States, according to a report quoting Chinese sources.