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M1 Abrams main battle tanks from the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) participate in NATO Exercise DISPLAY DETERMINATION ’87.
Neanderthal – “an uncivilized, unintelligent, or uncouth person”
Something happened to Lloyd Austin between 1997 and 2003. In 1997, he was the brigade commander of 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division. I arrived as a new infantry platoon leader in 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, at that time and by all accounts, infantry officers I respected spoke highly of him.
The U.S. Navy temporarily closed four dry docks for submarines at two facilities after a report on seismic issues found potential problems in the event of major earthquake.
As a result, the dry dock at the Trident Refit Facility at Bangor, Washington as well as dry docks 4, 5 and 6 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility 15 miles away in Bremerton, Washington suspended service pending a further investigation. The temporary closure was announced on Friday, Jan. 27.
UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED – JANUARY 07: Contract workers load a Hellfire missile onto a U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), at a secret air base in the Persian Gulf region on January 7, 2016. The U.S. military and coalition forces use the base, located in an undisclosed location, to launch drone airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria, as well as to distribute cargo and transport troops supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.
The military and technical collaboration between Turkey and Pakistan keep getting stronger. Regarding military hardware, the two countries work together on naval advancement in addition to ground and air systems.
The Turkish company STM recently handed over to the Pakistan Navy the PNS Khalid [S-137], the second conventional submarine to be refurbished as part of the Agosta 90B project. Turkey has never before shipped a foreign submarine after it had been upgraded.
And why it has no place in military service
Guest post by Thomas Klocek, USNA ’69
The current climate of being “woke” is all about oneself. It is political correctness on steroids. It rewards conformity to ideological perspectives rather than real performance. It does not look at others, their needs (except when “virtue signaling” – trying to make yourself appear to be taking the moral high ground), or how to work with them.
Russia will react to reports that Ukraine expects the delivery of Western tanks. Challenger 2 and Leopard will come from Kyiv’s European allies, and Washington will send Abrams. Logically, Moscow will not be idle and began to show it immediately after the news of future supplies to Ukraine.
On January 14, an improved Mi-28NM helicopter was observed in Ukraine days before the decision to deploy tanks to Kyiv. Almost five years ago, this version was first employed in combat in Syria.
So delighted is Russia with the chopper that it placed an order for 100 of them.
Image by Łukasz Golowanow
A four-star Air Force general has told his officers to prepare for war with China within two years — instructing them to drill service members “with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most.”
“I hope I am wrong,” Mike Minihan, head of the 50,000-member Air Mobility Command, wrote in the chilling Friday memo, NBC News reported. “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”
The Department of Defense sought to downplay the memo.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Two U.S. Navy sailors assigned to a pair of aircraft carriers died by suicide this month. The deaths, one in Virginia and one in Washington state, bring the total of Navy suicides in the last two months up to three.
A sailor assigned to the USS George Washington died on Monday, Jan. 23. Military.com first reported the news, confirming it was a suicide at a private residence at Newport News, Virginia, not aboard the aircraft carrier. The sailor’s name has not been released.
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This is a rapidly developing story and details are bound to change, but as it sits now, explosions rocked an Iranian Ministry of Defense ammunition plant in the central Iranian city of Isfahan amid reports of blasts in three other cities.
Video captured one of the explosions in Isfahan as security forces swarmed the area around the facility. The Iranian Ministry of Defense later claimed three drones targeted the installation in a “failed attack” that caused no casualties and damaged only the building’s rooftop.
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Fighting around the southeastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar has intensified in recent days as Russian forces continue their offensive in the Donbas.
Located to the southwest of Donetsk proper, the town has started bearing the brunt of Russian firepower.
Location of Vuhledar, Ukraine. (Google Maps)
Footage from the area shows Ukrainian fire destroying multiple Russian armored vehicles in recent days’ attacks on the town.