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The Military Balance database says that Beijing has 150 J-20A jets and is growing rapidly.
China is overwhelming the United States in stealth fighter production, and the inventory of its most advanced J-20A will surpass that of the US Air Force’s F-22 Raptor as soon as this year, the director of the International Institute of Aircraft said on Wednesday—Strategic Studies, based in London.
At an online event to launch The Military Balance 2023, IISS Director General and CEO John Chipman told reporters that China’s fighter aircraft have changed over the past five years.

It has been 358 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. On Thursday, the Russian forces are pushing hard all across Ukraine in an attempt to achieve an operational breakthrough. In search of an operational breakthrough The Russian military has started its large-scale offensive, but it isn’t going well. Over the past few days, […]
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Though the bulk of the fighting in Ukraine is taking place in the Donbas, especially in and around Bakhmut, Kyiv has not taken its eye off Crimea. That point was apparently hammered home over the skies near Sevastopol overnight Wednesday and into Thursday.
“Beginning at night, the attack on the peninsula began,” Sevastopol occupation governor Mikhail Razvozhayev on his Telegram channel Thursday.

American soldiers were drawn like never before with the growth of William Mauldin’s career. As an editorial cartoonist, Mauldin took two Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime. He is most well-known for depicting two American soldiers, Willie and Joe, who served as infantry soldiers.
However, what’s most interesting about his stint is that Mauldin himself served in the military. In 1940 he enlisted in the Arizona National Guard, where he volunteered to work with the unit’s newspaper and drew cartoons for the publication.

Evgeny Afineevsky has once again brought the real-life atrocities of war in Ukraine’s fight for freedom from Russia with his eye for the camera, heart for the story and mind for making it all happen. Afineevsky is the Academy Award-nominated director of Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, which came out in 2015 and can be watched on Netflix right now. His most recent work is Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, which is another breathtaking and heart-crushing look at the current fight in Ukraine and shows how much the country needs our support against tyranny.

The U.S. State Department unveiled a new declaration Thursday regarding artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons, in the hopes that other nations will sign on. And one provision calls for keeping the technology from having any involvement in nuclear weapons employment.

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President Joe Biden says his administration is seeking new policies and procedures for how to handle unidentified objects intruding into U.S. airspace in the future. These remarks come after U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor and F-16C Viper fighter jets shot down three still-unidentified objects in U.S. and Canadian airspace between February 10 and February 12. That followed the shootdown of what U.S. officials said was a Chinese government spy balloon in U.S. airspace off the coast of South Carolina on February 4.

Andrey Medvedev, a 26-year-old former commander for the Russian paramilitary company the Wagner Group illegally crossed into Norway sometime in January 2023. He had been hiding out in Russia for two months before making the crossing. He was arrested by Norwegian officials but requested asylum shortly after his arrest. 
The Wagner Group has been a central force during some of the most pivotal battles in Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

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In an until-now secretive program, the United Kingdom has rapidly developed and flight-tested a number of “complex” drones that would be suitable for use by Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. While it’s unclear which of any of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in question were ultimately selected for supply to Ukraine, it’s obvious that a range of different capabilities was explored in the process, including surveillance drones and, most intriguingly, what is described as a “3D-printed delta-wing ‘suicide’ drone.

The Central Intelligence Agency is getting set to explore using chatbots and generative artificial intelligence capabilities to assist its officers in completing day-to-day job functions and their overarching spy missions.
Lakshmi Raman, the CIA’s AI director, confirmed these plans at the Potomac Officers Club’s annual AI summit in Virginia on Thursday.