On the 382nd day of the war, Russia and Ukraine are locked in a bitter fight for the possession of Bakhmut in Donbas. Russian forces have made significant advances and are inside the city. But his advance has been costly and with its own problems.
Many casualties and internal divisions
In a short video titled “Wagner and Bakhmut,” the British Ministry of Defense assessed that the Russian army and the mercenary forces of the Wagner Group had lost between 20,000 and 30,000 soldiers killed or wounded in what has become the deadliest battle in the world conflict so far.
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Over the past 30 years, the United States [1st] and Russia [2nd] have largely dominated the global arms market. However, the gap between these two countries has widened significantly between 2013-17 and 2018-22.
For example, sales of US military equipment represent 40% of world exports, while the market share of the Russian arms industry has fallen by 31%, standing at 16%. This is confirmed by the Stockholm International Institute for Peace Research [SIPRI] in a study that has just been published.
Lockheed Martin via Twitter.
For those of you active on Twitter, it would have been hard to miss the buzz surrounding the Oscars yesterday evening. Top Gun: Maverick, the second highest-grossing film of 2022, racked up an impressive total of six Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Film Editing and Visual Effects. The film’s sound team deservedly went on to win the Oscar for Best Sound.
North Korea announced that it launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine in protest against the US and South Korea’s military drills.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the country’s strategic cruise missiles were launched from the Yongung 8.24 submarine in the waters off the eastern city of Sinpo on the morning of March 12.
KCNA said the cruise missiles hit the target at sea after traveling 1,500 km for about 7,563 – 7,575 seconds.
“Music is saving me,” said Freeman, and the venue hails from a program called Guardian Encore. Learn more about it here.
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US Soldiers in an M1 Abrams tank compete in the Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany, in June 2018. The US Army will enhance 34 of its Abrams MBTs to the System Enhancement Package (SEP) v3 configuration if its FY 2024 budget request is enacted. (US Army )
If enacted, the US Army’s budget request would cut ground vehicles out of enduring programmes and reinvest in procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) for newer programmes, according to budget documents released on 13 March.
A CH-53K King Stallion performs aerial refuelling trials in 2020. (Lockheed Martin)
The US Navy (USN) in its fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget requested USD17.3 billion to purchase 88 aircraft and helicopters, including spare parts, support equipment, and facilities.
The USN intends to spend USD4.9 billion dollars to procure Lockheed Martin F-35s. USD2.3 billion is meant to purchase 16 F-35Bs, the vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft flown by the US Marine Corps (USMC). The F-35Bs will replace Boeing AV-8Bs and F/A-18C/Ds. Another USD2.
In 1942, a Navy ship sunk in New York and the government recruited the mafia to protect the port from the Axis. But was that what really happened?
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The U.S. is at increased risk of a firepower gap with China as U.S. production of explosives and propellants declines and China’s increases.
This month, Forbes reported that China had surpassed the United States in developing new types of explosives, particularly its version of CL-20, an explosive developed in the 1980s that is 40% more powerful than RDX or the HMX and has widely used in American munitions since World War II.
In 2011, China reportedly conducted tests of an explosive similar to CL-20, and since then, the country has been producing the explosive in large quantities.
The US Navy’s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget includes funding for Ford-class aircraft carrier John F Kennedy. (Michael Fabey)
The US Navy (USN) fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget request includes USD3.9 billion for Ford-class aircraft carrier construction and Nimitz-class Refueling Complex Overhaul (RCOH) life extension work, according to USN and Pentagon budget documents released 13 March.
The FY 2024 request represents a decrease of about USD462.8 million compared to last year’s funding, documents show.
The proposed FY 2024 spending plan includes USD2.