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How dare you talk about the lives of our military members so flippantly?

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Speaking of sending American military members to the Ukraine WWI-style meat grinder, that has killed likely over a million souls, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown declared recently, “We’ll get there eventually, over time.” 
The comments came as reports are released that Ukrainian ‘President’ Zelenskiy is demanding NATO members provide troops to train Ukrainian recruits.

An ‘A-Team’ of U.S. Army Green Berets will receive specialized drone training, including about using first-person view (FPV) types, ahead of an upcoming scheduled rotational deployment. This will help the Special Forces soldiers be better prepared to train foreign allies and partners on the use of uncrewed aerial systems, including potentially in Ukraine. It will also prepare them to be able to use those capabilities for their own local surveillance and force protection purposes while forward deployed in dangerous locales.

FGS
Karlsruhe
is the third of five follow-on K130 corvettes on order for the German Navy.
(Michael Nitz, Naval Press Service)
The third follow-on Braunschweig (K130)-class corvette on order for the German Navy was launched at NV Lürssen (NVL) subsidiary Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg on 7 May, NVL Group announced the same day.

FGS
Karlsruhe
is the third boat of the second batch of five additional corvettes for the German Navy.

A still from a video shows an ELM-2084 radar being deployed during an Azerbaijani artillery exercise. (Azerbaijan Ministry of Defence)
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed its land forces are using a smaller version of the Israeli-made ELM-2084 multimission radar to support artillery units.
An Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Elta ELM-2084 was seen clearly in a video released by the MoD on 16 May to show an artillery exercise involving 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzers (SPHs) and 2A36 Giatsint-B towed guns.

NASSCO is in line to build a new class of AS(X) submarine tenders to replace ships such as USS
Emory S Land
pictured here.
(Richard Scott/NAVYPIX)
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) on 8 May advised its intention to award General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) a sole-source contract estimated at up to USD100 million for the AS(X) Submarine Tender Recapitalization Program design development. This is seen as the lead-in to a full detailed design and construction (DD&C) contract for the first AS(X) ship.

The Hunter 5 prototype before its first test flight at the X Range. (Edge Group)
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) Edge Group has updated the product page for its Hunter 5 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a video showing its first test flight.
The video said the flight took place in November 2023 at the company’s X Range testing facility on Abu al Abyad island. It showed a prototype fitted with fixed undercarriage and non-folding wings, having its two-cylinder petrol engine manually started before it took off and flew around the range’s runway.

Air Force Maj Randell Voas (left) and Senior Master Sgt. JB Lackey (right) were both posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on May 16, 2024. They helped save the lives of 16 of 20 people aboard a CV-22B Osprey that crashed on April 9, 2010. (Air Force photos.).
Air Force Maj. Randell Voas and Senior Master Sgt. JB Lackey gave their lives to save as many people aboard their CV-22B Osprey as possible. Because of their sacrifice, 16 of the 20 people aboard the aircraft survived the crash.

Airspace over a swath of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California is being closed for the next 10 days because of the re-entry of a “Russian space launch booster,” two U.S. defense officials told The War Zone.
“It is not for a launch or a military exercise,” the officials said, dispelling concerns circulating on social media that the Russians were about to conduct a military exercise close to the U.S. mainland. 

Ok, did a bit more looking into this this morning – bottom line, I think it’s an impact area for a humdrum Russian space launch.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joseph Shattuck and a combat engineer with 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, 2d Marine Division, fires an M3E1 multipurpose anti-armor anti-personnel weapon system (MAAWS) on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Dec. 9, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Lance Cpl. Brian Bolin Jr.).
The SAAB Carl-Gustaf 84mm recoilless rifle is generally referred to as the “Gus” (pronounced ‘goose’) or just the “Gustaf” by most soldiers and Marines, who have employed the powerful weapon during countless military operations over the past two decades.

Key lawmakers are proposing that the Army establish a Drone Corps as a basic branch of the force, but at least one service leader isn’t keen on the idea.
Earlier this week, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces released draft language for the fiscal 2025 Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act. A provision would mandate the creation of a Drone Corps that would be given primary responsibility for programs, projects and activities involving small and medium unmanned aerial systems and counter-UAS weapons.