Gavin Wilde joined TNSR managing editor Rick Landgraf to discuss Gavin’s recent article about the effects of foreign propaganda on U.S. domestic politics. They discuss how the fear that hostile foreign powers could subvert democracy by spreading misinformation may be exaggerated, as the relationship between people’s beliefs and attitudes and their media consumption remains unclear. Policy interventions should therefore avoid needlessly intervening, lest they inadvertently imitate the authoritarian states they seek to combat.
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The first official photos have appeared showing a Soviet-era ground-based air defense system upgraded with Western surface-to-air missiles — a so-called ‘FrankenSAM.’ The images, published by Ukraine’s Operational Command East, show a tracked self-propelled Buk-M1 system — known in the West as SA-11 Gadfly — which is said to have been adapted to fire the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow, a missile that previously provided point defense for numerous NATO and allied warships.
This year, for the first time, the U.S. Air Force’s Black Flag large-scale test and evaluation exercise involves a Virtual Black Flag (VBF) test event, bringing together Navy, Army, and Space Force capabilities. This is just the latest development for an exercise that continues from strength to strength, and which is now overtly postured toward preparing for a potential future conflict with China. TWZ spoke with exercise directors from the Air Force and Navy during the most recent iteration of the live-fly exercise, Black Flag 24-1, last month.
In our latest installment of ‘TWZ TV,’ we take a look back at the A-10 Warthog’s defining weapon, the 30mm GAU-8A Avenger cannon. Early on it wasn’t all roses for the Warthog’s iconic big gun, far from it actually. The Avenger did its best to blind its pilot while suffocating and rattling apart the host platform it was bolted into. It took engineering trial and error to see the GAU-8 go from a major basket case to the iconic close air support daemon it is today.
In our latest installment of ‘TWZ TV,’ we take a look back at the A-10 Warthog’s defining weapon, the 30mm GAU-8A Avenger cannon. Early on it wasn’t all roses for the Warthog’s iconic big gun, far from it actually. The Avenger did its best to blind its pilot while suffocating and rattling apart the host platform it was bolted into. It took engineering trial and error to see the GAU-8 go from a major basket case to the iconic close air support daemon it is today.
The 2024 Long Term Review adds tasks for EDA joint procurement and collective research, but doesn’t detail expanded cooperation with Ukraine.
Photo by Ann Gonzalez.
May is Military Appreciation Month—a month dedicated to recognizing members of our Armed Forces who have volunteered to wear the uniform. This is a great time to recognize the challenges overcome by those who defend our nation’s freedom and to highlight important facts about military life.
Service members are never truly ‘off-duty’. Subordinates can be recalled at a moment’s notice, subjected to days or weeks-long training events away from their families.
A return of the Seaplane?
The Navy has never been the same since 1967 when the Martin Marlin was retired and has never recovered. Similarly, Army has never been the same since “The Big Picture” went off the air in 1971.
Special Operations Command is leading the charge for a return of the Seaplane – it makes perfect sense in the Western Pacific. Hopefully they can drive this to implementation without the normal Pentagon dysfunction.
A Polish F-16 carrying the JASSM cruise missile. The country has now signed for hundreds of additional JASSM-ER missiles with a range of 1,000 km. (Polish MND)
Poland has signed for hundreds of Lockheed Martin AGM-158B-2 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles with Extended Range (JASSM-ERs), finalising a deal that was approved by the US government in March.
The Polish Ministry of National Defence (MND) cemented the procurement of an undisclosed number of the air-launched cruise missile on 28 May, with Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz signing the contract.
The use of small drones in Ukraine is revolutionising warfare, following on from their use in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.