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General Dynamics is developing the Ajax armoured fighting vehicle for the British Army. (Crown Copyright)
General Dynamics believes it has resolved noise and vibration problems with its Ajax armoured fighting vehicle and that the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) will resume making payments for the programme by the end of March, according to officials at the US-based defence contractor.

A cutout model of the 1000 lb thermobaric bomb. (Janes/Rahul Udoshi)
India’s state-run Munitions India Limited (MIL) will start the mass production and supply of 1,000 lb thermobaric bombs from 2023, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said at the Aero India 2023 show, which concluded on 17 February.

An official from the DRDO’s High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) told
Janes
that the technology transfer to produce the 1,000 lb thermobaric bomb has been transferred to the MIL, which is also an agency under the DRDO.

The IAF has developed a new data sharing platform named ‘Vayulink’ to enhance situational awareness of forces. The IAF displayed a model of Vayulink (pictured) at the Aero India 2023 show in Bangalore. (Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has developed a new platform that can be used to share location and a variety of other data between soldiers and equipment on ground, at sea, or in the airspace.
The system was unveiled by the IAF at the Aero India 2023 show being held in Bangalore from 13 to 17 February 2023.

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.