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The Space Development Agency is looking for proposals from industry to build a new payload system that will use onboard sensors to help the Pentagon test high-speed missiles. 
Known as Sabre, the sensor payloads will be able to collect and disseminate data created during flight tests for ballistic missiles and, eventually, hypersonic missiles.

Don’t look like this when clearing a room. (Image via Twitter).

There is no shortage of firearms enthusiasts or people who enjoy showcasing their shooting skills. And, increasingly, that means tactical firearms training. Not just accuracy in target shooting, but combining speed, movement, and weapons handling in a combat scenario. 

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“Hooah!” We all responded in genuine, earnest, and resounding fear.
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The first prototype of Turkey’s TF-X next-generation fighter jet has reportedly completed a series of taxi tests ahead of its formal rollout tomorrow. Temel Kotil, CEO of the aircraft’s manufacturer, Turkish Aerospace Industries, said in January that the jet could make its maiden flight this year.
Turkey’s state-run Defense Industry Agency, or Savunma Sanayii Başkanlığı (SSB), has released a set of pictures of the apparently complete, or at least near complete, TF-X prototype on the runway at an unspecified location.

Some of the best-armored vehicles on the Ukrainian side in the long battle for Bakhmut do not necessarily belong to the Ukrainian Army. They may be members of the Ukrainian national guard, the country’s fighting force under the interior ministry.
These eight-wheeled BTR-4s are fast, flexible, and hard-hitting with their stabilized 30mm autocannons and Barrier anti-tank missiles. Especially when operating alongside well-led infantry.
Yet, no one is safe during the ten-month-long siege of Bakhmut.

A Ukrainian soldier in the eastern Donetsk region told the BBC that captured fighters were being taken to the front lines to die so that Russian forces might gain an advantage.
More than seven months have passed since Ukrainian, and Russian forces first clashed in Bakhmut, an eastern Ukrainian city with limited strategic value but a high human cost.
Ukrainian fighters told the BBC, which interviewed the troops last week in Bakhmut, that although they have been able to hold their own against enemy forces for months, Russia’s strategies have evolved.

It’s not entirely clear why a strategic focus on the Indo-Pacific would call the location of the F-15EX training mission into question. 
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In a further blow to China following AUKUS, France offered India a contract to produce six nuclear submarines. Assume the Indian Navy agrees to accept the French proposition. In that case, the Atmanirbhar Bharat (Made in India) effort of the Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive another feather in its cap.
The Indian Navy plans to acquire six nuclear-powered submarines as part of Project 75 Alpha, which is part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat (Made in India) program.

Australian startup Hypersonix Launch Systems has been selected by the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit to deliver a test vehicle for the hypersonic and high-cadence airborne testing capabilities (HyCAT) program, DIU announced Thursday.
The company from Down Under won out against heavy competition after more than 60 other companies responded to the solicitation for the project, which was released in September.
HyCAT aims to facilitate exploration of hypersonics technology as the U.S. Department of Defense faces testing infrastructure shortfalls.

Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black, the sergeant major of the Marine Corps, addresses Marines and sailors at Camp Pendleton, California, Aug. 27, 2019. (Lance Cpl. Alison Dostie/U.S. Marine Corps).

Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Troy Black has spent 35 years working to be the best Marine he could be, but he recently shared that there is one time where he feels he fell short.