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Global aerospace and defence company General Dynamics has registered $3.4bn in net earnings for the full year 2022, a 4.1% increase compared to 2021.
The company’s diluted earnings per share (EPS) was $12.19 in 2022, up 5.5% from 2021.
Revenue for the full year rose 2.4% to $39.4bn against 2021, and the operating margin was 10.7%.

In the fourth quarter, the company reported net earnings of $992m, a 4.2% increase from the same quarter a year ago.
Its EPS was up 5.6% from the same quarter in the previous year to $3.58. Revenue was $10.9bn for the quarter, up 5.

Ukraine is to join the CV90 user club, as a result of the Swedish donation of IFVs of the type to Kyiv. (BAE Systems)
Ukraine is to join the CV90 user club, Janes learnt at Defence iQ’s International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) 2023 conference being held in London on 23–26 January. Ukraine is becoming the latest user of the CV90 infantry fighting vehicle, as a result of the Swedish donation of CV90s to Kyiv.
The CV90 user group currently numbers seven countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.

In the marginalia of his copy of On War, influential fighter pilot-theorist John Boyd laments that Carl von Clausewitz never thought about inducing friction for the adversary: “Overcome friction, yes—but also why not magnify friction for the adversary commanders?” Perusing his pencil marks, “He does not imply that it may be beneficial to increase friction.” […]
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A file image of PNS
Saad
, one of the Pakistan Navy’s three Khalid-class submarines. The service recently took delivery of another modernised boat, PNS
Khalid
, from STM. Another vessel, PNS
Hamza
, completed its modernisation programme with STM in 2021.
(Naval Group)
The Pakistan Navy has received its second modernised Khalid (Agosta 90B)-class diesel-electric submarine (SSK) from Turkish company STM.

An artist’s impression of the Global Combat Air Programme aircraft formed as a result of a merger of the UK-Italian Tempest and Japanese F-X projects. (Crown Copyright)
Japan and Sweden have signed an agreement that could enable the Scandinavian country to play a role in the new Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).
The two countries signed the ‘Agreement on the Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology’ in late December 2022, about two weeks after GCAP partners – Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom – announced the joint fighter aircraft programme on 9 December.

Lockheed Martin’s Directed Energy Interceptor for Manoeuvre Short-Range Air Defence System demonstrated ‘first light’ in January 2023. (Lockheed Martin)
Lockheed Martin on 23 January announced its offering for the US Army’s directed-energy weapon programme reached ‘first light’, a development milestone that comes ahead of an expected competition to build the capability for the service.

Host L Todd Wood speaks with those at the tip of the spear of the fight against medical tyranny in DoD. 1LT John Bowes and Attorney Dale Saran give the latest insight from the fight.
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US CENTCOM

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in partnership with the Israel Defense Forces on Jan. 23 kicked off Juniper Oak 23.2, the biggest joint U.S.-Israel exercise in history. An ominous formation of B-52 bombers was seen by plane spotters this week while en route to the event where the aircraft joined a wide array of other assets to support readiness and interoperability between the two allies.
In the awesome clip shared on Twitter on Jan. 25, seven B-52 Stratofortress bombers can be seen flying east across the sky over New Jersey.

The US will send 31 Abrams M1 main battle tanks (MBT) to aid Ukrainian forces. (US Army)
The US will send 31 M1 Abrams main battle tanks (MBTs) to Ukraine in the coming months, but the Pentagon is still weighing how the equipment will get there, the US Army’s top acquisition official said.
Hours after Germany announced it would send Leopard 2s to the battlefield, US President Joe Biden’s administration said it would send enough of its primary tank to make up one Ukrainian tank battalion as part of a USD400 million security assistance package.

Throughout Russia’s 11-month-long war, Ukraine has repeatedly lobbied for US-made fighter jets like the F-15 and F-16. Soon there may be a new push.
The post Now that Ukraine is finally getting the tanks it wants, it’s already looking for the next big thing — fighter jets appeared first on Sandboxx.