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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed Western leaders for continued Russian aggression in Ukraine this week.
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Defense Department and Federal Aviation Administration officials participated in a two-day summit hosted by NASA last week during which they met with outside experts to pinpoint government and commercial sources for capturing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) data, DefenseScoop has confirmed. 
But the agencies are currently being tight-lipped about exactly who from the Pentagon attended.

The Pentagon wants to lean more on the commercial space sector for systems and services, but there needs to be additional dialogue and information-sharing about threats to those types of assets, Defense Department officials said Tuesday.
The department sees a number of advantages in tapping into commercial offerings as the DOD moves to augment its capabilities and capacity.
“I think if you really want to go fast, that’s what you do — you take advantage of commercial.

Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) launch a weather balloon carrying a metal sphere to calibrate the ship’s radar. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Adam Austin/Released).

This article originally appeared in Popular Science.
On January 12, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs.

U.S. Navy

More than 70 years after the fact, a U.S. Navy fighter pilot has received the service’s second-highest military decoration, acknowledging a Korean War incident in which he shot down four Soviet-flown MiGs in what has been described as “the longest dogfight in U.S. military history.”
With the Soviet Union not officially engaged in combat in Korea, the exploits of retired Capt. E. Royce Williams had long been downplayed, but they’ve now been more properly recognized after a long-running campaign.

Meet naval aviation and Korean War hero Capt. E. Royce Williams.

Despite the F-22 Raptor’s reputation as the world’s most capable air superiority fighter, the stealth jet has lost a number of notional dogfights over the years to older and less advanced platforms like the F-16 and even the Navy’s electronic-warfare specialist, the EA-18G Growler. But few exercises have done more damage to the mighty Raptor’s […]
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U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Meshaq Hylton.

The U.S. Marine Corps’ (USMC) newest helicopter, the heavy-hauling CH-53K King Stallion, successfully lifted a U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter on December 13th of last year. Details on the demonstration, as well as accompanying images, were released on January 23.
The exercise took place at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. This involved a CH-53K helicopter belonging to USMC Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1) lifting the Navy’s first F-35C prototype, ‘CF-01,‘ or ‘CF-1.

Airman 1st Class Jackson Ligon, 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron technician, examines the internals of an intercontinental ballistic missile during a Simulated Electronic Launch-Minuteman test Sept. 22, 2020, at a launch facility near Great Falls, Mont. SELM testing allows missile wings throughout Air Force Global Strike Command to evaluate the reliability of their systems. (Senior Airman Tristan Day/U.S. Air Force).

The National Security Agency issued guidance to the Department of Defense to mitigate cybersecurity issues as it transitions from the legacy internet protocol to the latest.
In 2020, the federal government mandated that all agencies and departments migrate from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6, which is considered more secure.
However, there are inherent challenges when changing network configurations, and IPv6 isn’t without its own risks.
“While there are convincing reasons to transition from IPv4 to IPv6, security is not the main motivation.

The T-90M Proryv is now the greatest tank in the Russian Army’s arsenal. The tank has already proven itself superior to the T-72 by actively participating in Ukraine’s conflict. The T-90 is more agile and fast than the T-72 and is equipped with superior armor and a cutting-edge fire control system.
Russia almost stopped making T-90s, a subject that rarely comes up. Moscow’s leadership has indeed scrapped more than a few successful weapons programs throughout the years.