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U.S. Navy ships bearing the name USS Cleveland have a long and illustrious history. Four ships have been named after the city of Cleveland, with the latest still under construction in Wisconsin. The residents of Cleveland have a lot of plans for the ship throughout its service life, and even the beloved Cleveland Browns NFL team will be a part of it. 
Cleveland Browns’ starting guard Wyatt Teller is the team’s nominee for the NFL’s 2022 Salute to Service Award presented by USAA.

Saab has announced an increase in net sales to $1.3bn (Skr13.86bn) during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2022, up 16% compared to $1.14bn (Skr11.94bn) in the year prior. Primarily due to an increase and growth in large and medium-sized orders.
The company said its net income for Q4 totalled $126.12m (Skr1.15bn). In the fiscal year prior, the net income was $76.21m (Skr794m).
Net income for the year was $219.14m (Skr2.28bn), operating cash flow from continuing operations was $248.84m (Skr2.59bn), and free cash flow was $179.58m (Skr1.87bn).

The British Army’s Challenger 3 main battle tank (MBT) programme has completed the critical design review (CDR) ahead of schedule and within budget.
The achievement was announced by the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) procurement arm Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S).
The milestone means the tank’s design has been approved and Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) can start building the prototype vehicles.

In a tweet, RBSL said: “This is a significant achievement made possible as a result of effective and close collaboration between industry, @BritishArmy and @DefenceES.

In 2022, Darrell Utt became the Chief of Business Operations for the National Medal of Honor Foundation. But before being all in on building a national monument, museum and learning institute, he proudly wore the coveted long tab. 
From the Appalachia to the Army
Raised in one of the poorest cities in America, Utt roots were more than humble. “I was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. My parents worked really hard but didn’t even graduate high school,” he explained. “I played a lot of sports growing up and loved being outside.

Russian military cadets march on Dvortsovaya Square during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Saint Petersburg on April 24, 2018. (Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images).

Former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is credited with saying that “quantity has a quality of its own.” The Russians appear to be putting that axiom to the test in Ukraine by throwing mercenaries for The Wagner Group into wave after wave of suicidal frontal assaults against Ukrainian defenses.
As a result, Russian casualties have been heavy in recent months.

Despite what some of the branches seemed to believe between 2008 and 2015, camouflage in the United States military is not meant to be a special uniform for each branch, it serves a purpose. It’s a deception tool, meant to keep the enemy from observing movement, to conceal locations, and, hopefully, keep them from hitting your side with a barrage of bullets. 
If the Navy “blueberries” – the Type 1 uniform that actually stuck around until 2019 – are any indication, blue uniforms aren’t the best idea.

U.S. Army doctrine stresses the fundamental tasks of shoot, move and communicate. To ensure the lethality of the force, these tasks are expected of every soldier and are applied all the way up to main battle tanks. Delivering accurate and deadly fire is the tank’s purpose and maneuverability is key to its survivability on the battlefield. However, a multi-ton machine riding on tracks over uneven terrain doesn’t make for a very good gun platform from which to shoot. That’s where the stabilizer comes in.

Its vertically-stabilized gun helped the M4 Sherman support the infantry (U.S.

Sir Douglas Bader was a celebrated World War II pilot, who earned an array of decorations from the British Empire for his service in the war. On top of 22 aerial victories, he is credited with shared victories, nearly a dozen enemy aircraft damaged, and enough “probables” to make him an ace once over. He did it all in the early years of the war, and with an odd ace up his sleeve. 
Bader flew with a handicap: he was missing both legs, both lost to an accident before the war.

Fighting off the United States wasn’t Vietnam’s only against-all-odds victory against a superior force. The Vietnam War wasn’t even the country’s most recent win against a bigger, more powerful country. While Afghanistan gets a lot of credit for being the “Graveyard of Empires,” little Vietnam should be considered as a close second. 
Vietnam has been around in some form since long before French occupation, Japanese domination, or even communism came to Southeast Asia.

The COMSATBw spacecraft were developed in collaboration with Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and TESAT. The systems are the first dedicated military communications satellites operated by the Bundeswehr. (EADS Astrium)
Airbus will continue to operate and provide support for Germany’s military satellite communication (satcom) systems.
Announced by the Bundeswehr on 9 February, the company has been awarded a contract extension for the operation of the authority’s COMSATBw 1 and 2 satellites until 31 December 2028.
The deal is valued at EUR52.8 million (USD56.