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Michael Monsoor deployed to Al Anbar Province in the spring of 2006.

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Ukraine on Friday picked up more positive waves in its long-standing push for modern tanks and armored vehicles.
Great Britain is “anticipated” to “formally announce” on Monday that about 10 Challenger 2 tanks will be provided to Ukraine, The Guardian reported Friday. Consummation of that deal, discussions of which began percolating earlier this week, would mark the first modern tanks Kyiv has been given by its allies. Several nations are providing Ukraine with Soviet-era tanks like the T-72, with the the U.S. footing the bill for some of them.

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The People’s Army of Vietnam has been training with hand-launched radio-controlled (RC) planes during military exercises. At least some of the aircraft, which don’t seem to differ much in size from an average hand-launched commercial drone, for instance, are said to have come from RC hobby clubs to provide a cheap and simple way to make exercises more realistic.
Videos of Vietnamese soldiers launching the RC planes have been circulating on social media since at least 2021, with a more recent video having emerged on Jan. 12.

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With Lockheed Martin hoping to secure a first full-rate production contract for its AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, or JAGM, in the first part of this year, the company has already announced a further improved version, the JAGM-MR, for Medium Range, which has now begun flight testing. The War Zone caught up with Joey Drake, program management director of Air-to-Ground Missile Systems at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, to look at the latest addition to the JAGM family of weapons and how this step-change in capability was achieved.

You can almost hear Bob Seger’s music now. (Twitter).

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has a new video that is a not-so-subtle request for M1 Abrams tanks, and it’s one that will take you right back to the halcyon days of 1991. 

Western countries are so worried about sending tanks to Ukraine, they’re arguing about what is and isn’t a “tank.” We offer our humble suggestion. pic.twitter.

A new unclassified report on investigations into unexplained phenomena observed by federal and military officials suggests the Pentagon has made recent progress in establishing more effective mechanisms for data- and information-sharing on the historically sticky topic of UFOs. But questions about the government’s collection of associated intelligence largely remain.

Taking out tanks as a grunt is tough and it means you have to be creative. These three anti-armor weapons provided some of the most creative ways to do so.
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The mid-to-late 1990s was shaping up to become the Royal Thai Armed Forces’ golden decade. The acquisition of 18 F-16As propelled the Royal Thai Air Force to the forefront of military aviation in the region, while the Royal Thai Army was reinforced through the addition of M60A3 MBTs and 155mm M109A5 SPGs. The Royal Thai Navy was to benefit from this period of prominence the most, becoming the recipient of Southeast Asia’s first and only aircraft carrier, the HTMS Chakri Narubet.

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In the summer of 2011, then-Army Maj. Brad Duplessis was a Stryker battalion and brigade executive officer in Iraq, leading troops into combat in towns like Baqubah and Muqdadiya. He saw Strkyers survive being hit by explosively formed penetrators, improvised explosive devices and RKG rocket-propelled anti-tank grenades, which have been known to destroy much more heavily armored vehicles.
More than a decade later, the U.S. is considering sending Strykers to Ukraine, a senior U.S.