Poland has already set up an “Abrams Academy” to prepare its military to use the American-made tanks it has ordered. It intends to establish a comparable center to educate European HIMARS rocket launcher pilots.
The US military is planning to establish a training center in Europe to teach NATO allies how to use High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, a voice of America (VOA) told a senior US general, amid growing demand for these systems in Eastern Europe following the weapon’s successes in Ukraine.
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The Balkan has received eyewitness reports from trusted sources that a missile exploded today over the skies of Romania near a military base outside of Cluj-Napoca in the northwestern part of the country. The explosion shook buildings in nearby Florești. Eyewitnesses report that the missile came from the northwest, in the direction of Poland. No damage has been reported and Romania officially denies any incident took place, but something is clearly amiss.
The Spanish Air and Space Army will soon begin arming its four Predator B drones with bombs and missiles, according to Chris King on euroweeklynews.com. These UAVs are currently in service at the 233 Squadron of the Talavera la Real air base, located in Badajoz.
According to the Revista de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica, an official publication of the Air Force, work will begin to assemble these drones, operational since the beginning of 2021.
The initial configuration of these drones is for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.
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Iraq’s Army wants to replace its fleet of Russian-made Mi-17 Hip armed transport helicopters with a mixture of Bell 412EPXs and Bell 412Ms produced in the United States. The significantly reduced availability of Mi-17 spare parts due to Russia’s own needs as a result of its war on Ukraine has been a major factor in these plans. The Iraqi Army’s aviation arm is also looking to acquire a variety of other helicopters from Bell, a company that just recently said publicly that it is trying to take advantage of new market opportunities created by the conflict in Ukraine.
Less than a week after the Air Force shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, President Biden ordered the U.S. military to attack an “object” that was flying off the coast of Alaska, officials said Friday.
“I can confirm that the Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours,” John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, told reporters during a press briefing Friday afternoon.
The M1 Abrams and the Leopards could well face Russia’s new T-14 Armata tank, footage of which was first seen in Ukraine last week.
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Details are still limited, but a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor has shot down a relatively high-flying “object” over U.S. territorial waters off the coast of Alaska. What exactly this may have been and who it might have belonged to are unknown, but this does come less than a week after an F-22 brought down what American officials say was a Chinese surveillance balloon after it traveled through U.S. and Canadian airspace for a number of days.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Following a busy nine months deployed around the globe to a variety of crisis operations a couple of years ago, one Army unit realized the need to improve its data to be more successful.
“For this formation, in the last, what we’ll call nine months, we’ve executed three things: one in [European Command], one in [Indo-Pacific Command], and then obviously, our most recent operation in [Hamid Karzai International Airport],” then Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, who commanded the 82nd Airborne Division, said during a presentation in October of 2021.
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The U.S. military downed a “high-altitude object” over northeastern Alaska on Friday because it posed a threat to commercial aviation, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
“We’ll attempt recovery and we’ll see what we can learn more from it,” Kirby told reporters during a White House news conference.
When Kirby was asked who might have launched the object, he replied, “I have no idea.”
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