In the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tank warfare has shown to be both effective and devastating. Due to heavy casualties (1,600 main battle tanks in 11 months), Moscow deployed some of its aging T-62 MBTS from the Soviet era to the front lines this fall.
As Forbes reports, the Ukrainian counteroffensives have led to a net gain in captured tanks. Kyiv may have more and better tanks than its invader at the moment, but they need to keep getting newer, more reliable ones to keep up their defensive operations.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has visited a missile factory in the Moscow region and familiarized himself with the latest aviation missile technology.
Judging by the photo on his Telegram channel, Medvedev is especially interested in the unusual square-section missile. BulgarianMilitary.com has found out what the missile consists of and why exactly it might interest Vladimir Putin’s deputy on the Security Council.
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Many casualties and the massive ammunition consumption during the Ukrainian war worry NATO’s high command.
After being founded in 1949 in response to fears of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, NATO has gained members since the Cold War’s end, but many of its militaries have shrunk in the decades since the Soviet threat has diminished.
Concerns have been expressed regarding the alliance’s capacity to launch a large-scale war against Russia in light of the scale and intensity of the battle in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian officials have promised not to use weapons supplied by the west to attack inside Russian borders. But they’ve never made any such assertions about their own weapons, one of which apparently exploded Monday near the city of Kaluga some 200 miles northeast of the border and 100 miles southwest of Moscow.
“It was established that at five in the morning in a forest near the city, a drone exploded in the air at a height of 50 meters,” Vladislav Shapsha, governor of Kaluga Oblast, reported Monday on his Telegram channel.
(U.S.F-22s: Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald / Balloon: Tyler Schlitt Photography / LiveStormChasers.com
Saturday afternoon, the world watched as an F-22 Raptor stealth fighter from the 1st Fighter Wing at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia fired a missile into the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina that had been floating over the United States for days.
(U.S.F-22s: Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald / Balloon: Tyler Schlitt Photography / LiveStormChasers.com
Saturday afternoon, the world watched as an F-22 Raptor stealth fighter from the 1st Fighter Wing at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia fired a missile into the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina that had been floating over the United States for days.
A GOP Congressman has accused former Secretary of Defense ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis of withholding Chinese threats from then POTUS and Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL): My office has been briefed by the office of the Secretary of Defense of the current Pentagon that it happened over Florida, it happened over Texas, and that it’s happened before.
America is Sending Our Adversaries Another Bad Message, They Heard It
By now most people know that my home state of Montana was all over the news as Chinese surveillance balloons moved overhead. As a good Montanan my first response, along with many of my fellow Big Sky country friends, was to ask if it could be ranged by high-caliber hunting rifles. If our government was not going to defend our nation, then we would take it upon ourselves.
Alas, at an estimated 60,000 feet of altitude, we could not reach it.
Sergeant Ronald J. Shurer is a retired United States Army Special Forces member and a recipient of the prestigious Medal of Honor. He earned his award for courageous action during the Battle of Shok Valley in Afghanistan in 2008.
Background
Shurer was born on December 7, 1978, in Fairbanks, Alaska, and he spent much of his youth in the Pacific Northwest. He came from a military family, his father serving in the United States Air Force. Before Shurer joined the military, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University, where he studied business administration.
The Air Force will soon tap small businesses to develop novel, decentralized methods for enabling the command and control of unmanned systems operating in vast quantities.
Via a new small business innovation research (SBIR) opportunity that’s set to open on Wednesday, the service aims to prototype reliable C2 capabilities for emerging, autonomous platforms that are designed to complete tasks independently or with minimal supervision from human operators. Broadly, the Pentagon considers such capabilities increasingly vital for mission needs now and down the line.