We never get tired of learning the names that soldiers pick for their tanks, and a recent set of monickers on several M1A2 Abrams training in Poland touch on everything we love about them: dark comedy next to light-hearted humor, zen-like philosophy alongside “send it” enthusiasm.
Photos released last week capture a tank from the Army’s 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas, labeled “Aneurysm,” which might be an effort to describe what firing the tank’s 155mm cannon feels like from the inside.
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Sentinel A4 is a 360-degree Active Electronically Scanned Array radar
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An Iranian Shahed-139 drone was shot down by a U.S.
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The conduct of war is complicated and requires judgments that should not be ceded to machines. Human-machine teaming is the future.
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The new short-range missile is capable of being launched from either a vehicle or a shoulder-mounted system.
The Armed Forces Bill, having reached its second reading in Parliament, will soon allow UK troops to down drones in and around military sites.
The U.S. Army and the British Army have deployed their respective M1A2 Abrams and Challenger 2 main battles tanks to participate in Winter Camp exercise on the territory of the former Soviet Union, near Tapa in Estonia, located approximately 100 kilometres from the Russian border. The tank units are training for manoeuvre operations in sub-zero temperatures, in a region on on NATO’s northeastern axis where winter conditions strongly favour forces trained and equipped to fight in cold low-visibility conditions. The proximity to Russian territory, including the economic hub of St.
China and Russia are churning out millions of drones while the United States has little capacity to build them at scale. Rep. Pat Harrigan of North Carolina introduced the SkyFoundry Act to change this, and it got rolled into the latest National Defense Authorization Act. This law authorizes a government-run facility capable of producing one million small drones annually, cutting China out of our supply chains and ending years of procurement delays. It’s a truly new way for the government to work with multiple industry partners.
In the 13th century, Muscovy, the medieval antecedent to modern Russia, was a small outpost on the periphery of Kyivan Rus. It would not emerge as a regional power until the Mongol conquest, where it became crucial in extracting taxes for tribute and maintaining the overlordship of the Khans in the region. In turn, the Mongols supported Muscovy’s rulers in a symbiotic relationship. Today, a similar dynamic is taking shape as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime becomes structurally dependent on China — not only to sustain its war in Ukraine, but also to maintain basic stability.