Fighting off the United States wasn’t Vietnam’s only against-all-odds victory against a superior force. The Vietnam War wasn’t even the country’s most recent win against a bigger, more powerful country. While Afghanistan gets a lot of credit for being the “Graveyard of Empires,” little Vietnam should be considered as a close second.
Vietnam has been around in some form since long before French occupation, Japanese domination, or even communism came to Southeast Asia.
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The COMSATBw spacecraft were developed in collaboration with Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, and TESAT. The systems are the first dedicated military communications satellites operated by the Bundeswehr. (EADS Astrium)
Airbus will continue to operate and provide support for Germany’s military satellite communication (satcom) systems.
Announced by the Bundeswehr on 9 February, the company has been awarded a contract extension for the operation of the authority’s COMSATBw 1 and 2 satellites until 31 December 2028.
The deal is valued at EUR52.8 million (USD56.
The deal put forward to Russian criminals is pretty simple: If you join the Wagner Group to fight in Ukraine and survive at least six months, you get a pardon, guaranteed by Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. It sure beats rotting away in a Russian prison – or does it end up with you rotting away in a Russian graveyard?
On the outskirts of Bakinskaya Village in the Krasnodar region of Russia, a graveyard is slowly filling up with the remains of dead Wagner Group fighters.
China’s new KJ-200B special mission aircraft has several new or improved systems, compared with the earlier generation of KJ-200 AEW&C aircraft. (Janes/Akhil Kadidal)
A new version of the Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation (SAIC) KJ-200 ‘Moth’ airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft is undertaking flight trials for potential induction by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
In January 2023, images on Chinese social media showed the aircraft in low-observable, light grey operational colours.
HII broke ground on a new submarine-construction facility at the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia. (Janes/Michael Fabey)
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) broke ground on a new project that will support nuclear submarine construction at its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) yard in Virginia, the company confirmed on 9 February.
The Multi-Class Submarine Production Facility is one of three new facilities, enabling NNS to further support the construction and delivery of Columbia- and Virginia-class submarines.
A television screen, on 9 February 2023, showing news of North Korea’s military parade, during which the regime carried out its largest-known display of ICBMs. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
Pyongyang carried out the largest-known display of its long-range nuclear strike capabilities on 8 February when it celebrated the 75th founding anniversary of its army.
On display at the parade include about a dozen 11 axel transporter erector launcher (TEL) vehicles with what appears to be either the Hwaseong-16 or Hwaseong-17 two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Bloomberg
Defense Department employees are downloading mobile applications to their work telephones that pose “operational and cybersecurity risks,” the department’s inspector general said…
Loren Thompson, Forbes
The military space community is in the midst of a profound transformation. Virtually every facet of space operations is being rethought, with an eye to making U.S….
Mongilio, USNI N.
The Dnieper River continues to be a battleground in the Russo-Ukraine as Russia attempts to use small boats to keep its presence on islands, according to a U.K….
Seymour Hersh Substack
The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now