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A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to A Company, 224th Aviation Regiment, 2nd Battalion prepares to take off on a transportation mission at Erbil, Iraq, Jan. 14, 2017. (U.S. Army photo).

United States Central Command announced today that it had captured three Islamic State (ISIS) leaders during an operation in Syria on April 8. 
“Hudayfah al Yemeni, an ISIS attack facilitator, and two of his associates,” were captured during a helicopter raid in eastern Syria, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command.

India and the United States are participating in a joint military exercise amid rising tensions with China in the Indo-Pacific region.
B-1 bombers and F-15E fighters in an aerial exercise
The US Air Force sends two B1 strategic bombers and a fleet of F-15E fighters to India to participate in “Exercise Cope India 2023”. This event marks the first time that B1 heavy bombers have joined the Indian Air Force (IAF) in a joint exercise.
The exercise began on April 10 and will last until April 21. Includes US C-130 and C-17 transport planes at Kalaikunda.
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The Navy has awarded an $8.4 million contract to the Survice Engineering Co. for additional drones that can resupply U.S. military forces, the Department of Defense announced late Tuesday.
The deal with the Maryland-based company includes the production and delivery of 21 TRV-150C Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TRUAS) and 12 months of systems engineering program management services in support of the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems program office, according to the announcement.
Work is expected to be completed in March 2024.

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While the transfer of the first donated MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets to Ukraine — from Slovakia and Poland — has been widely reported, including by The War Zone, the origin story of these aircraft is a complicated and fascinating.

Marine Pfc. Aimal Taraki, who left Afghanistan after serving as an interpreter for U.S. forces, graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on April 7, 2023. Lance Cpl. Alexander Devereux/U.S. Marine Corps.

A former Afghan interpreter who served with the U.S. Marines in his home country has earned the title of Marine.
Pfc. Aimal Taraki, who graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on April 7, said he was inspired to join the Corps by his time working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, according to a Marine Corps news story.

The Air Force’s electronic warfare “sprint” will focus on identifying gaps and directing new systems to buy to close them, according to a senior service official.
In September, the Air Force announced a sprint within its office of the deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and cyber effects operations, A2/6, to do analysis on gaps and requirements concerning the electromagnetic spectrum and electromagnetic spectrum operations, or EMSO.

Historic ties as the foundation of Philippine modernisation 
The leaders of the United States and the Philippines met to discuss their nations’ military, economic, and humanitarian cooperation partnerships.The discussions in Washington, DC, focused on the mutual defence treaty signed between the two countries in 1951.
According to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, the treaty “remains the bedrock of our cooperation” and still applies to armed attacks on either nation’s armed forces or public vessels anywhere in the South China Sea.

A steel-cutting ceremony for the Turkish Navy’s three follow-on Istanbul-class frigates was staged at Sedef Shipyard on 11 April. The ships will be built concurrently at Sefine, Anadolu, and Sedef shipyards and delivered to the Turkish Navy within 36 months. (STM)
A steel-cutting ceremony for the Turkish Navy’s three follow-on Istanbul (TF-100)-class frigates was staged at Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, on 11 April.
The three ships, which will be the second, third, and fourth ships of the Istanbul class, will be built concurrently at Sefine, Anadolu, and Sedef shipyards.

As the U.S. military services work to stand up a zero-trust architecture by 2027, the Army is currently only in the “crawl phase” on the journey to implement the modern security model across its enterprise, a top Army cybersecurity official said Tuesday.
“I’d say we’re still at the crawl phase, which is what can we even implement to actually properly identify the [Army’s disparate sources of] data,” Colten O’Malley, deputy commander and CISO for the Army Command and Control Support Agency, said during a panel at the CrowdStrike Government Summit.

U.S. Cyber Command is requesting $89.4 million for a key offensive cyber platform for fiscal 2024, the first such budget numbers for the system that are publicly available.
The Joint Common Access Platform (JCAP) will allow the Department of Defense’s cyber operators to connect to their targets beyond friendly firewalls. It had been run by the Army since 2020 as the executive agent for Cybercom. Previously, it had been classified in budget documents, lending little information regarding its programmatic details and funding numbers.