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Profits For Russia’s Rostec Arms Export Conglomerate Fall 42 Per Cent: One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oldest and closest confidants is seeing his industrial empire crumble. That empire is the Russian state defense-industrial behemoth Rostec, which has a near-monopoly on the production of major weapon systems.

The massive entity has controlling interests in almost all Russian defense enterprises, which combined manufacture 80 percent or more of the military hardware needed for Russian President Vladimir Putin to sustain his war in Ukraine.

Ukraine to Receive Blueprints to Build the MBDA Storm Shadow ALCM: France has announced it is providing Ukraine with the blueprints for its Système de Croisière Autonome à Longue Portée – Emploi Général Scalp-EG missile as part of a large defense deal. The air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) is also known as the “Storm Shadow” in the United Kingdom and is produced jointly by the Anglo-French air-launched weapons consortium MBDA.

Before the twentieth century gave armies antibiotics, the leading killer of American soldiers in wartime was neither enemy fire nor shrapnel. Two-thirds of the roughly 620,000 deaths in the U.S. Civil War came from diseases like typhoid and dysentery. Spread through contaminated water and crowded camps, they were eventually controlled through inoculation and field sanitation rather than the antibiotics that would not arrive until the following generation. Later in World War I, American forces lost more men to disease than to combat: 63,000 to 51,000.

It’s 2028, and the Fujian carrier strike group has just left Yulin, China, for an unknown destination. The U.S. Navy’s “Hedge Strategy” has let commanders disperse unmanned systems across regional choke points as forward-deployed scouts. But days before contact with Fujian, an unmanned undersea vehicle in the Banda Sea transmits an error code and must head back to Yokosuka for repairs — a 3,000-mile, 15-day trip. A second platform, an unmanned surface vehicle, is overdue for a routine oil filter change in its propulsion system.

Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club (Vintage International, 2014)The noise, the noise, the unrelenting noise of the world: How is any writer with an interest in the long view supposed to escape it, if only for a couple hours to work, let alone maintain their sanity in the remainders of a day? It’s an old dilemma, for certain, but little digital town criers in our pockets bring instant, constant news about slaughter and ruin in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and beyond — grim notices against the background of those chronicling the state of domestic American politics.

The Republic of China Army has deployed its AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopters for a deep-area dispersal exercise within Tainan as part of the ongoing Joint Defense Exercises, demonstrating a growing emphasis on preserving combat aviation assets during the opening stages of a potential conflict. Rather than remaining concentrated at established air bases that would likely be targeted by missile strikes, the helicopters dispersed to alternative operating locations, where they landed, established temporary operating sites, and prepared to resume combat missions.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is currently investigating a multistate outbreak of Cyclospora – a microscopic parasite that is sickening people across the country.
The exact cause of the outbreak is unknown, but history suggest fresh herbs, leafy greens, berries, and other produce could be – and often are – the culprit.

L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber deliver the latest on the battlefield situation in Ukraine.
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Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has offered India the opportunity to jointly produce the advanced T-90MS main battle tank, under a deal which could significantly deepen long-standing defence industrial cooperation between the two countries. The initiation was presented as building on a quarter century of successful T-90 production collaboration, and as an opportunity to provide the Indian Army with one of the world’s most capable modernised main battle tanks.

The Republic of China Army is expected to field one of the largest HIMARS fleets outside the United States, with the system accommodating ATACMS, guided rocket artillery, and in future possibly more compact and longer ranged PrSM ballistic missiles. Current procurement plans call for 111 HIMARS launchers together with more than 500 ATACMS ballistic missiles delivered in multiple batches, creating a substantial precision-strike capability integrated into the Army’s wider fire support network.