French President Emmanuel Macron has disclosed plans to transfer Mirage 2000-5 fighters to Ukraine. This follows the recent and unexpected announcement that the Ukrainian Air Force will be getting a pair of Saab 340 airborne early warning and control aircraft from Sweden. It also comes amid an ongoing multi-national effort to supply Ukraine with U.S.-made F-16 Viper fighters.
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With the Pentagon’s plans to field hypersonic weapons across multiple domains in the coming years, the head of the Missile Defense Agency is pushing for additional infrastructure to ramp up testing of the high-speed systems.
“We need to get into a faster clip of doing these tests, especially in the new stuff, to be able to really wring out the technology, but also to start beefing up the inventory levels [and] the capacity levels because, frankly, the hypersonics are too costly,” MDA Director Lt. Gen.
Geraint Jones’ “D-Day: The Unheard Tapes” takes readers into the grey area of warfare, hearing from both sides of the battlefields of WW II. (Photo courtesy of Geraint Jones. Task & Purpose composite image.).
Today, you’ll likely see endless reels of Allied troops storming the beaches of Normandy, interviews with D-Day veterans, and footage of how France is celebrating the 80th anniversary. But you probably won’t see the perspectives of German soldiers who lost the war. Geraint Jones’ latest book, “D-Day: The Unheard Tapes” shows readers both sides.
An Oregon Air National Guard F-15 ended up in a drainage ditch at Kingsley Field, Oregon when its pilot did not use emergency braking systems, an Air Force investigation found. The base’s control tower lowered a last-ditch arresting cable that might have stopped the plane after a confusing radio exchange with the pilot. Photo from final accident report.
The Navy on Thursday confirmed to The War Zone that a one of its EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft used an AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) to destroy a Mi-24/35 Hind attack helicopter. This confirms a possible explanation we suggested when a mysterious “kill mark” of a Hind appeared on a Growler deployed aboard the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) in a photo that was released on May 15. The engagement also likely highlights the AARGM’s unique precision strike capabilities against non-radiating targets.
Reports from Russia indicate that the Soviet-era An-22 heavy transport aircraft is headed for retirement before the end of this year. Only a handful of the Ukrainian-designed, turboprop-powered airlifters are still operated by the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), where their continued presence points to enduring problems in fielding new-generation heavy transports.
A dramatic study of a Russian Air Force An-22 at Tver in April 2007. Sergey Krivchikov/Wikimedia Commons
A recent TV report from Russia’s state-owned VGTRK broadcaster quoted Lt. Gen.
New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Joel Strickland (left) and Spc. Desany Jacques (right) used their medical skills and a trauma bandage from their Individual First Aid Kit to save the life of a man who was stabbed on May 20 at a subway station in Queens, New York. (Lt. Stephanie Sylvain/U.S. Army National Guard).
Two New York Army Guardsmen used their combat lifesaving skills and a special bandage from their medical kit to save the life of a man who had been stabbed at a subway station in Queens, New York. New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Joel Strickland and Spc.
In 2021, George Hovey wrote “Why Some of America’s Diplomats Want to Quit” in which he argued that the State Department’s hierarchy and culture are driving foreign service officers out of the service. Three years later in the wake of a wave of resignations from the State Department driven by the U.S. government’s response to the Israel-Hamas conflict, we asked him to take a look back on his article. Read more below.
The Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing has gotten its first F-15EX Eagle II fighter. The wing is set to eventually receive a total of 18 F-15EXs as the first operational unit to operate the type.
The first of an initial pair of F-15EXs for the 142nd Wing, which has the serial number 20-0008 and is also known as EX8, touched down at Portland Air National Guard Base late yesterday. The base is collocated with Portland International Airport.
The Eagle II is set to replace the 142nd’s existing F-15C/D Eagles.
Leonard Schroeder trained his whole career for that moment on D-Day. A native of Linthicum Heights, Maryland, he attended the University of Maryland with a ROTC scholarship, graduating in June 1941. He became an Army officer at just 22 years old.
When the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor that December, Schroeder was sent to the 4th Infantry Division at what was then-called Camp Gordon in Georgia. He would spend the next year and half training with his infantry unit, then another six months training in amphibious landings in Florida.