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ADSB’s 170 M-Detector USV (ADSB)
Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB) has unveiled a new unmanned surface vessel (USV) at IDEX 2023 in Abu Dhabi.
Speaking to
Janes
, Francesco Paolo Lo Monaco, director of shipbuilding and engineering at ADSB, said that the 17 m boat, known as the ‘170 M-Detector USV’, is designed for mine counter measure (MCM) and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) missions and can operate as both a manned or unmanned platform.
Like all geniuses, Ernest “Ernie” Taylor Pyle grappled with what Churchill called the “black dog of depression” at various points in his life, even as the Indiana boy moved among presidents and entertainment figures, in the many exotic locations he traveled to in a too-short life.
The best stories of icons are those of people that didn’t set out to be that. Fairly ordinary people that became extraordinary. Ernie Pyle was like that. Eschewing the farming life of his parents, he craved adventure. Journalism seemed to be his ticket to faraway lands and cultures.
Storm Shadow Cruise Missile
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In his remarks on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that Western countries must “help Ukraine to shield its cities from Russian bombs and Iranian drones and that’s why the United Kingdom will be the first country to provide Ukraine with longer-range weapons.
On Friday, the Pentagon announced Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract worth more than $2 billion in total to deliver new hypersonic missiles for use aboard the Navy’s Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers. These new high-speed missiles are expected to enter service very rapidly, with Lockheed Martin projecting they’ll be fitted on the stealthy warships […]
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Supacat Jackal reconnaissance vehicles. (Crown copyright)
A British Army light mechanised brigade is to provide the framework lead of the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (Land) (VJTF(L)) in 2024, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has told
Janes.
VJTF(L) 2024’s UK contingent is to comprise two light mechanised battalions equipped with Foxhound patrol vehicles, a light cavalry regiment with Jackal patrol vehicles, and an artillery regiment equipped with 105 mm towed Light Guns, the ministry told
Janes
on 17 February.
The Council of the European Union (EU) has decided to provide assistance measures worth €7m that will support the armed forces of Jordan.
It follows a request for assistance from Jordan Foreign Affairs Minister Ayman Safadi in November last year.
The military support is being adopted under the European Peace Facility (EPF), an off-budget fund that aims to strengthen military and defence capacities, as well as military aspects of peace support operations, of partner nations.
Established on 22 March 2021, the EPF has an overall financial ceiling of €5.69bn in current prices until 2027.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
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In a recent interview with the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that he hoped U.S. President Joe Biden would confirm his conviction to see Russia defeated in Putin’s war against Ukraine.
Morawiecki also made it known that he did not agree with French President Emmanuel Macron or German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who both believe that Russia “cannot win this war and Ukraine cannot be defeated.
S. Erwin, Space N.
When a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched a national security mission to geostationary Earth orbit Jan.
Chicago Tribune
Of the 46 men who have become president, 12 not only served but reached the rank of general, six of them during the Civil War. Men such as George Washington, Ulysses S….
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