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In 2023, a dramatic series of events led Western observers to declare the imminent demise of the Wagner Group, Russia’s infamous paramilitary force. First, there was Wagner’s costly assault on Bakhmut in the spring, where the organization was estimated to have lost up to 20,000 fighters, many of them convicts drawn from Russian prisons. Then there was the anticlimax of the June mutiny led by Wagner’s chief curator and protagonist, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. Finally, there was Prigozhin’s suspicious death in a plane crash in August.
The North Carolina National Guard confirmed on Tuesday that one of its UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters had inadvertently disrupted a hurricane relief distribution point in western North Carolina while delivering generators at the request of a local civilian organization.
“While attempting to land, rotor wash caused items to blow away from the local distribution set up by a group of civilians in the area,” the North Carolina National Guard posted on X. “The crew immediately identified the situation, aborted the landing for safety reasons, and departed the area.
The Defense Intelligence Agency is close to getting the green light to operate an artificial intelligence-enabled tool on the U.S. military’s Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, according to a senior official.
The spy organization is rolling out the Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System, or MARS, to replace the decades-old Military Intelligence Integrated Database with a cloud-based capability that can use AI to help analysts sift through and make sense of big data.
A week after Hurricane Helene knocked out a factory that produces more than half of the country’s intravenous solutions, the president of a group that represents about 5,000 hospitals is suggesting that the U.S. military might need to fly in IV fluids from around the world as U.S. supplies rapidly dwindle.
Richard J. Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, urged President Joe Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act domestically and “direct the Department of Defense to make transportation available for emergency supplies from other international sources.
The purpose of this loan is to fund the acquisition of AH-64E Apache helicopters in the continuous modernisation of the Polish Armed Forces.
Rheinmetall Vehicles has been awarded one of the two contracts by the US Army under the S-MET Increment II programme to deliver UGVs.
Ultra I&C has a contract from the Canadian Armed Forces for the deployment of its remote tactical data link management systems (RTDLMS).
An 11th Airborne Division soldier was injured during a jump while training in Hawaii Monday, Army officials said.
“The status of the injured soldier is not available at this time,” the service said in a statement.
The soldier was injured during an 11th airborne joint forcible entry exercise where hundreds of paratroopers from Hawaii and Alaska units jumped out of Air Force C-17s. The accident occurred at the Pōhakuloa Training Area, which is between the Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and the Hualalai Volcanic Mountains on the island of Hawaii.
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