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In yet another devastating attack by Ukrainian drones on Russian-occupied territories, Kyiv knocked out power to 13 different power stations in Crimea, Luhansk, and the Donetsk regions during a 48-hour period.
The strikes severely impacted the energy grid in those occupied territories as the Ukrainian military continues its campaign targeting the energy architecture supporting the Russian military.
Su-57 Felon Fighter from Russia. Creative Commons Image.
The Next Shock After Oil: How the Iran War is Reshaping the Global Food Supply – Let’s file this next one under “More Tales from the Golden Age.” A spate of recent reports tracking the economic implications of the Iran War highlights just how bad the global economic situation is becoming.
By the way, the Strait of Hormuz has not been fully reopened. And as we’ve been warning you in this publication, the longer the Strait remains blocked, the worse the global economic fallout from the war will be.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy, or PLAN for short, recently notched what was for it a long carrier deployment, with the Liaoning completing 40 days at sea, during which it conducted a number of training exercises.
Though notable for the PLAN, it pales in comparison to the Gerald R. Ford, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, and that ship’s post-Cold War record of nearly 300 days at sea.
The Liaoning’s Origin Story
China New Carrier Type 003 CCTV Screencap Photo.
Although the Liaoning is China’s first aircraft carrier, it was not built in China.
The ongoing war in Ukraine is approaching its fifth year, a remarkable marker for what Russia’s leader initially anticipated to be a very short “special military operation” that would quickly decapitate Ukraine’s leadership and see the country absorbed into Russia. With Russia newly on the back foot, thanks to Ukrainian ingenuity and the Kremlin’s ability to finance the war, much has changed on the battlefield. But some things, particularly Putin’s objectives, have remained the same.
BAE Systems has completed delivery of 19 Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicles to the US military, bringing the total number handed over to 58.
The initial reaction to Kengo Kuma’s design for the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Memorial has not been kind. Criticism seems to fall into three buckets: its abstract design, the absence of a clear heroic tribute, and a lack of a “roll call” or list of names of the fallen. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a retired Navy SEAL now in Congress, called it a “jazz hands monument to our fallen brothers and sisters.” Sen. Jim Banks, another Navy veteran-turned-lawmaker who served in Afghanistan, referred to it as “disconnected abstract art.
Pompano Beach, Florida – A new report by the London-based think tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, entitled “Russia’s UAV Campaign over Europe,” concludes that over the past 15 months, Russia is believed to have launched regular UAV incursions into NATO airspace. These violations were not carried out, however, for the simple purpose of harassment or to gauge how long these NATO militaries would take to respond to airspace violations or other hostile acts.
Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
GAO previously questioned the Navy’s choice of a C-130-based aircraft to meet its nuclear command and control needs.