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There are conflicting accounts rising after a deadly attack on the Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine amid fighting raging in that oblast. The Russians say civilian targets were hit by U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) short-range ballistic missiles while Ukrainian sources say military targets were struck. There were several claims that Ukraine used the unitary warhead (single high explosive) variant of the ATACMS, which would mark one of its first such uses. Video of the strikes show unitary warheads being used.
A Russian flotilla — including a modern nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine — is bound for Cuba for a rare deployment. Cuban officials state that none of the Russian Navy vessels headed toward the Caribbean will be carrying nuclear weapons, in an apparent effort to reduce tensions between Moscow and Washington, but the development once again reinforces renewed Russian interest in the operations in the wider region.
This afternoon, Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1) finally became whole when they welcomed their last detachment of aircraft home to Marine Corp Air Station Yuma with the arrival of the CH-53K King Stallion.
Since VMX-1 was established in 2016, when the Marines took their MV-22s from Marine Corp Air Station (MCAS) New River to MCAS Yuma, the squadron always had a Type Model Series (TMS) detachment that operated away from the squadron’s home station.
U.S. Central Command is moving to explore and quickly adopt intuitive, user-driven commercial platforms that can enable military analysts and operators with limited technical expertise to rapidly create and apply advanced computer vision capabilities for real-time, current operations.
A 2023 F-16 crash outside Osan Air Base in South Korea was caused by an electrical failure in the plane and poor weather. Photo from Accident Investigation Board report.
An F-16 pilot ejected just seconds before his jet crashed in a fiery ball just outside Osan Air Base, South Korea after thick clouds and failed instruments left the jet in an unrecoverable dive. The Air Force released an Accident Investigation Board report this week of the May 6, 2023 mishap which destroyed the $30 million jet.