India, China, and some Southeast Asian countries have maintained their interest in buying Russian arms.
Russian state news outlets claimed late on 12-Feb-2023 that Russia had given India roughly $13 billion in guns during the previous five years and that New Delhi had placed orders with Moscow for weapons and military equipment exceeding $10 billion.
New Delhi has not publicly opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite the fact that India is Russia’s largest armaments customer (it accounts for about 20% of Moscow’s current order book).
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Al-Shabaab fighters, Feb. 13, 2012 in Somalia. (Getty Images).
The U.S. military launched another airstrike in Somalia last week in support of Somali army forces who were engaging al-Shabaab militants.
Twelve al-Shabaab militants were reportedly killed in the strike, which occurred on Feb. 10 roughly 28 miles southwest of the town of Hobyo, which is approximately 290 miles northeast of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, according to U.S. Africa Command.
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USAF Battle Control System operators monitor the skies from the floor of the program’s Eastern Air Defense Sector location in February 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo).
Over the course of nine days, the U.S. military has shot four high-altitude objects out of the skies over North America. In the first instance, the Defense Department and intelligence sources are confident of the object’s composition and terrestrial origins. The other three, however? The Pentagon is less certain.
Less than a week after the U.S.
Since 1971, National University has been helping adults achieve higher education by making it accessible, affordable and achievable. Founded by a retired Navy Captain, the school is ideal for active duty students looking to further their education while serving their country. Here are some of the benefits that NU offers to help service members work toward their degree on active duty.
1. On-base and online courses
When serving on active duty, home is wherever the military sends you. This can make it difficult to attend college courses unless the campus is near your base.
The Navy quietly conducted a landmark flight this month that offers clues to the future of one of its strangest and most underappreciated ship classes.
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Aerostats, including unpowered balloons, were very popular in the Soviet Union before World War II, but subsequently fell almost completely out of favor. However, once the Cold War was underway, Soviet surveillance balloons made a comeback. In the modern Russian military, there remains a limited niche for these kinds of balloons, although, with spy balloons very much back on the international agenda, it’s possible that they could become part of a broader resurgence.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The Army is now beginning to send division headquarters on no notice to accompany brigades to major training events as a means of exercising how the service will fight with larger echelons in future conflicts.
For the past 20 years during the counterinsurgency fight and war on terror, brigade combat teams were the Army’s main unit of action.
An F-16C Fighting Falcon assigned to the 85th Test Evaluation Squadron shoots an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM over testing ranges near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., March 19, 2019. The AMRAAM is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. (Senior Airman Joshua Hoskins/U.S. Air Force).
When a Chinese spy balloon entered U.S. airspace over Idaho on Jan. 31, the U.S.
In March 1999, NATO air forces intervened in the ongoing war in Yugoslavia. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the country abandoned communism and tried to establish itself as a Yugoslav republic. Not all former members of the Soviet-backed Yugoslavia, which included Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Slovenia wanted to take part in the new union.
The top-scoring American fighter ace of World War II was Richard Bong, who notched up 40 air-to-air kills. The top scorer for the British Royal Air Force scored 38. The number one French fighter pilot had 33 kills. The top-scoring pilot for Nazi Germany was Erich Hartmann with an astonishing 352 aerial victories.
Germany was not just lacking in the materials and manpower needed to make new aircraft, they were also short of pilots with the skills to fly the aircraft it did have.