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The Australian Army will dispose of its fleet of European-made MRH-90 Taipan helicopters early, as the Labor Party confirms that a multi-billion dollar purchase of US-made Black Hawks will replace them.
The Government will announce on Wednesday the acquisition of 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for the Australian Army for an estimated amount of 2.8 billion dollars.

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The Netherlands has confirmed it intents to supply the Patriot missile defence system to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces in their fight against the Russian invasion.
The announcement comes after Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s recent visit with US President Joe Biden.

No regional power has tried to oust the Syrian regime as openly as Turkey. Since the start of war in Syria in 2011, Turkey trained and armed opposition groups, hosted millions of Syrian refugees, and in 2020 even directly clashed with regime forces. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called Syrian President Bashar al Assad a […]
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Host L Todd Wood speaks with Maj Gen Richard Comer (USAF, Ret) on his role in the Mayaguez Incident in 1975 off Cambodia.
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A drone flies over bomb-stunted trees, wide swaths of land where buildings used to stand and hulks of remaining structures, many still smoldering, at least one actively burning.
The stark scenes are contained in a drone video posted on Telegram and broadcast by Sky News of the city of Maryinka, in Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian defenders are still hanging on there, at least according to both Ukraine’s military and the pro-Russian Rybar Telegram channel.

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The U.S. Army is exploring adding a second type of interceptor, capable of knocking down supersonic cruise missiles and large-caliber artillery rockets, to go with its future Enduring Shield Indirect Fire Protection systems. Enduring Shield is intended to provide an additional layer of defense against the ever-growing threats presented by cruise missiles, drones, and artillery rockets, and is already slated to fire the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile.

An Airman receives the COVID-19 vaccine at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, Jan. 28, 2021. (Joshua J. Seybert/US. Air Force).

The Defense Department is backtracking on an earlier statement that appeared to open the possibility that the more than 8,400 U.S. service members who were separated for refusing to get vaccinated for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) could receive back pay.
“Right now, we are not currently pursuing back pay for service members who were dismissed for refusing to take the COVID vaccination,” Air Force Brig. Gen.