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Last month, Valery Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Army, told The Economist what was needed to restore Ukraine’s territory to its borders before Russia’s full-on invasion. Friday, the Pentagon took another partial step toward fulfilling those wishes with a new $3 billion aid package headlined by 50 M2A2-ODS Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
“I know that I can beat this enemy. But I need resources,” Zaluzhny said back in December. “I need 300 tanks, 600-700 IFVs [Infantry Fighting Vehicles], 500 Howitzers.

A Long Island family sits in an underground bomb shelter, 1955. Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images.

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When it comes to the willingness of Ukraine’s international partners to send heavier Western armored vehicles, the floodgates finally seem to be opening. The Ukrainian military is now set to receive AMX-10RC heavy armored cars from France and Marder infantry fighting vehicles from Germany, along with Bradley Fighting Vehicles from the United States.

RAF Gunnery School training at Rang-du-Fliers. Copyright: © IWM.

During the dawn of aerial combat in World War I, flyers came up with inventive ways of practicing using their aircraft-mounted machine guns. The image above is a case in point. Taken on July 17, 1918, it depicts a Royal Air Force (RAF) Pilot Officer conducting target practice from a moving ‘cockpit’ as it hurtles around a curved track at the RAF’s Rang-du-Fliers gunnery school at Berck in northern France.
At this late stage of the war, the RAF was actually still an extremely new branch of the British military.

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Ukraine is to receive an undisclosed number of radar-guided RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles, or SAMs, which will be integrated onto the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ existing Soviet-era Buk air defense systems. The missiles are included as part of the latest U.S. aid package for Kyiv officially announced today, which significantly also includes M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
The provision of Sea Sparrow missiles was first disclosed by Politico.

The intelligence community’s key research hub is launching a new program to build tools that exploit recent advances in artificial intelligence to ultimately help intel analysts write their reports with stronger evidence and better reasoning.
To answer complex and constantly evolving intelligence questions, military and government analysts frequently have to comb through large amounts of uncertain and sometimes conflicting information.

The first base mailroom closure of the year is here. With Martin Luther King Jr. Day around the corner, we wanted to inform you of the military base mailroom closures, as well as the Sandboxx print schedule that may impact the delivery of your letter. Below you’ll find the MLK Day Print Room Schedule. Note: […]
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Rifle grenades were the infantry’s first experimentation with organic grenade launchers and indirect firepower at the squad level.
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Video Above: Air Force Scientist Details New, Cutting Edge Methods of Air Bomb Attack By Kris Osborn, President, Center for Military …

U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Brendan Stephens

During what would become known as the Battle of 73 Easting in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm (ODS) in 1991, Staff Sergeant David Lawrence, commanding an M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, gave the order to shoot at a target with its Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) tank-busting missile.