Two configurations of the CN-22 were displayed on ROMARM’s stand at BSDA 2024 – a medium version with a shorter 13.5 inch barrel (top) and a standard version with a 16 inch barrel (bottom). (Janes/Sonny Butterworth)
Fabrica de Arme Cugir, a subsidiary of Romania’s state-owned ROMARM holding company, displayed two configurations of its CN-22 assault rifle at the Black Sea Defense and Aerospace (BSDA) 2024 exhibition held in Bucharest between 22 and 24 May.
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A Windracers ULTRA UAV pictured in February 2024. (Windracers Group)
Ukraine is operating the UK-developed Windracers Uncrewed Low-cost Transport (ULTRA) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),
Janes
has learnt.
ULTRA is a tactical UAV designed to support resupply. Speaking to
Janes
on 4 April, Simon Muderack, the CEO of Windracers and Distributed Avionics, revealed that its UAV has been conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and supporting resupply for the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2023.
Denmark received its first ATMOS and PULS artillery systems during the third quarter of 2023. (Elbit Systems)
Denmark has received all its Precise and Universal Launching System (PULS) multiple rocket launchers (MRLs) and its first batch of 155 mm/52 calibre Autonomous Truck Mounted Howitzer Systems (ATMOS),
Janes
learnt at Defence iQ’s Future Artillery 2024 conference held in Paris from 21 to 23 May.
Most of the PULS munitions ordered by Denmark have also been delivered.
SFC. Juan Pina leads an underwater reenlistment ceremony. (Screenshot via U.S Army W.T.F! Moments).
Over the years Task & Purpose has seen several strange, unusual, and sometimes just cool reenlistment or promotion ceremonies. Troops have reenlisted in a Game Stop and while taped to the turret of a howitzer. They’ve been promoted while standing in a bog. The troops who are reenlisting while scuba diving off the coast of Hawaii are definitely on the cool end of the spectrum.
A video shared by U.S.
The All American Gate at Fort Liberty. (Photo by Matthew White).
An Army special operations officer is under investigation after fatally shooting a utility worker outside the soldier’s home near Fort Liberty.
The news comes this week after the Moore County Sheriff’s Department shared more information about a May 3 shooting in Carthage, North Carolina, roughly 35 miles west of the U.S. Army base. Deputies were sent to a private residence at 8:15 p.m. that night, following a 911 call of a man trespassing on the residence. The man “became aggressive,” the caller said.
Originally posted on 10/20/23
Host L Todd Wood speaks with F-15 pilot Brent Beecham on the first night of the Gulf War.
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Air Force members Tech. Sgt. Tyrese Thompson and Tech. Sgt. Chase Blumberg reenlist at Air Base 201 in Niger in 2023. (photo by Master Sgt. Michael Matkin/U.S. Air Force).
This fall the U.S. Air Force is raising the maximum payout available for airmen in certain fields. This past week the service announced it was increasing the amount of money service members in certain specialized careers can get in reenlistment bonuses, up to $180,000 from a previous high of $100,000.
The new bonuses, which go into effect on Oct.
Luke Ryan and Patrick Hawkins grew up in regiment together and were gun team leaders in B Co., 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at the same time. (Photo courtesy of Luke Ryan).
During the War on Terror, it was common for deployed service members to live off of Rip It energy drinks, dip, and moldy baked goods from home. But, sometimes, supplies run low. Sometimes, service members had to resort to “acquiring” the aforementioned creature comforts.
(US Army photos, Task & Purpose composite).
On the eve of the 1991 Gulf War, Maj. Marie Therese Rossi-Cayton was the company commander of Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters deployed to Saudi Arabia. No American woman had ever flown, let alone led, helicopters into war before, but Rossi-Cayton had orders for her Chinooks to fly soldiers and supplies with the 101st Airborne Division into Iraq when the U.S. invasion began.
But as she prepared her crews — which included lower-ranking women pilots and crew chiefs — for the invasion, Rossi-Cayton was told she would be pulled away from her unit.
Originally posted on 3/22/24
Host L Todd Wood speaks with retired US Navy Capt G. ‘Dog’ Pearson, on Vietnam Naval air power.
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