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It turns out, Ukrainian forces really like the old-school Maxim machine gun. Or at least the Imperial Russian and later Soviet version of it, the PM1910.
Although the Maxim machine gun was originally created way back in the 1880s, today’s war in Ukraine has surfaced a sometimes bizarre mix of weapons and tactics. There are modern drones and troops just as likely to carry tablets as rifles. Mid-century Cold War tanks and armored personnel carriers are taking the field alongside modern rocket systems.
Chinese Nuclear Bomb
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The Pentagon is concerned amid a rise in “troubling” reports that cooperation is increasing between Moscow and Beijing regarding China’s efforts to build new nuclear weapons. On Wednesday and Thursday, the Department of Defense (DOD) made an official accusation regarding the reports.
The Assistant Defense Secretary for Space Policy, John F.
Swedish Defence Minister Pål Jonson (right) and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell (left) hosted an informal meeting of EU defence ministers in Stockholm on 7–8 March, where a plan for increasing and accelerating the production of artillery shells was discussed. (Swedish government/Johannes Frandsen)
European Union (EU) defence ministers meeting informally in Stockholm on 7–8 March discussed a plan for increasing and accelerating the production of artillery shells.
Virginia Class Submarine
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In an effort to expand and overhaul its navy, Australia has signed a deal with the U.S. to purchase 5 Virginia-class nuclear submarines beginning in the next decade. Both U.S. and European officials have disclosed the deal as part of a landmark defense agreement between the U.S., Australia, and the U.K. in an effort to counter China.
The agreement is central to the newly formed AUKUS partnership.
The IRGCN’s converted container ship
Shahid Mahdavi
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Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) formally took delivery of over 80 vessels on 9 March, including the converted container ship Shahid Mahdavi (110-3) and a new high-speed air-defence vessel.
IRGCN Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri described Shahid Mahdavi as a multi-purpose long-range vessel that is fitted with a phased array radar and an advanced communications system.
The Biden-Harris Administration has submitted the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget, requesting $842bn for the US Department of Defense (DoD).
The request this year is 3.2%, or $26bn, more than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level, and approximately $100bn higher than the year before.
Specific details of the DoD’s requested have not been released and are expected to be published on 13 March.
The budget seeks $9.1bn in proposed investments for the DoD’s 2024 Pacific Deterrence Initiative, demonstrating its long-term commitment to the Indo-Pacific.
There is a consensus among the US intelligence community that partnerships with the private sector are the key for the US to maintain the advantage against near-peer and peer rivals in the current security climate.
While the private sector provides militaries with the means to battle for territorial interests with platforms, the edge is given to the power with the most advanced cyber, space and nuclear capabilities that are also informed, maintained, and advanced by industry.
It has been 380 days since the Russian invasion began. On Friday, the Russian forces continue to advance in and around the town of Bakhmut. Russian assault in the Donbas In the past 24 hours, the Russian forces have shifted their weight to the north of Bakhmut. Wagner Group mercenaries captured the small settlement of […]
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Washington needs to enact the concept of “strategic sequencing” to avoid fighting a two-front war against nuclear-armed rivals.
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Service members would see the largest military pay raise in more than 20 years under the budget proposal unveiled…
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The Biden administration proposes increasing the DOD’s total discretionary budget authority to $842 billion, a 3.2% boost from the 2023 enacted level.
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With the 2,100-ton vessel added to its fleet along with nearly 100 missile-launching boats, Iran appears to be flexing its muscles at sea.
Long before the Cold War pitted democracy and communism against each other on a global scale, fascism and communism were locked in a deathmatch ideological struggle in Europe. As economies were decimated by the aftermath of World War I, civil wars broke out, fascist governments rose in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere as people fled their homes for safer countries.
In the middle of this unrest, sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were growing up in what is today Haarlem in the Netherlands.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Bomber is a modern marvel of engineering. It’s so good, the United States Air Force has kept it around for more than 70 years. In that time, the airframes have undergone several revisions and upgrades and have outlasted other airplane types, the Strategic Air Command for which it was built, and even the Cold War itself.
Its superior performance and low operating costs were the primary reason it was never superseded, even by aircraft that were designed to replace the B-52.
It really was like a dark, violent start to a movie. Iraqi units watched dust storms roll in during the 2003 invasion by America and thought they finally had a break from the relentless attacks. Night had offered no protection, but surely the Americans could not reach them in such thick dust storms.
Iraqi units drove into the thick walls of dust and inched their way along highways, seeking to reinforce or resupply beleaguered units. For five days, America had run roughshod over them. Now, finally, with dust so thick it turned rain to mud, they were safe.
This Marine has very little in common with the Charlie Brown from the Sunday funny pages. Cpl. Charles Brown was a New York-born Marine who enlisted in British-held Hong Kong. He would see action aboard the USS Colorado when the United States sent its Navy to Korea in 1871.
Korea at that time was an extremely isolated country (even more so than North Korea is today), but the United States wanted to know what happened to a merchant ship that had visited the country in 1866.
Napoleon once said that leaders are “dealers in hope.” While such a label might seem to fit Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky, it fits more awkwardly on Russian President Vladimir Putin. How has the leadership of these two men shaped the onset and current progress of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Would the invasion have happened […]
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A conceptual image that Grene Robotics says shows the layers of protection Indrajaal can offer to defend critical infrastructure from low RCS threats. (Grene Robotics)
Hyderabad-based Grene Robotics has developed a command-and-control (C2) system that it says leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to co-ordinate with military systems, supporting faster decision-making on the battlefield.
Several versions of the C2 system have been delivered to the Indian military, and have been used to support the development of a counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) named Indrajaal.
Thales UK DSA offering on display at the 2023 Future Soldier Technology Conference. Synaps (left), AN/PRC-148E Spear (middle), and SquadNet radio (right). (Janes/Olivia Savage)
Thales intends to pitch its tactical radios for the UK Dismounted Situational Awareness (DSA) Tactical Radio Sub-Lot competition.
Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks has agreed to purchased DataPath, a communications firm serving US military and government customers.
The acquisition will expand Gilat’s position in the defence market. The company expects an approximately $50m increase in annual revenue for its defence sector, following the completion of the deal.
Gilat’s board of directors and DataPath’s board of directors and stockholders have approved the acquisition.
A file image of the Republic of Singapore Navy’s Fearless-class patrol vessel, RSS
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, while it was in service. The Royal Brunei Navy will soon operate two ex-Singapore Fearless-class vessels, which have been retired by Singapore and are being transferred to Brunei as a gift.
(Singapore Ministry of Defence)
The Royal Brunei Navy (RBN) will soon operate two ex-Singapore Fearless-class patrol vessels that were formerly in service with the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN).
The IAF has developed a low-cost C-UAS that can jam and spoof hostile UAVs. The C-UAS was unveiled at Aero India 2023 in Bangalore in February. (Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the ways in which these platforms are leveraged by India’s adversaries, has pushed the country to prioritise the development of counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UASs).
As Indo-Pacific tensions with China continue to intensify, the US Air Force has deployed F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to a key island for the first time. The F-22 Raptors of the 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron are based on Tinian, a small island north of Guam in the Pacific.
F-22 Raptors in the Pacific
The stealth fighters were first deployed to Tinian as part of tests to determine the feasibility of basing fighters there in the event of a conflict with China.
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Italian company Leonardo has reported that its new orders in 2022 increased 20.7% to €17.266bn, and 21% on a like-for-like perimeter.
The growth has been attributed to contributions from Defence Electronics and Security in the company’s US component.
Revenue for 2022 increased by 4.1% to €14.713bn and 4.7% on a like-for-like perimeter, compared to the previous year.
The rise was driven by the performance of Helicopters and Defence Electronics in both its European and US components. Leonardo’s European component contributed the largest portion of revenue.
12 Squadron will continue as a joint UK-Qatari Typhoon unit until 2025. (Crown Copyright)
The Qatari and UK governments are to continue 12 Squadron as a joint Eurofighter Typhoon, overturning an earlier decision to revert it to being a Royal Air Force (RAF)-only unit after 2023.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced the decision on 9 March, saying the bilateral nature of the squadron will continue until 2025.
The all-volunteer force may finally have reached its breaking point. During the first years of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many military experts worried that the constant deployments would “break” the force since they expected that fewer young Americans would volunteer to serve in a wartime military. Thankfully, that didn’t happen. Yet a […]
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Late in 2022, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Italy issued a joint declaration outlining their intention to work together to create a sixth-generation fighter. The joint plan, called the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP), is expected to debut an airframe in 2035.
If everything goes according to plan, GCAP will be the most extensive joint effort between Japan and Europe in military aviation history.
According to the BBC, the emerging sixth-generation Tempest will eventually replace Britain’s fleet of aging FGR4 Typhoon fighters.
The first of the five Lockheed Martin C-130J-30s ordered by Indonesia arrived in the country on 6 March. (Indonesian Ministry of Defense)
A Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft ordered by Indonesia has arrived in the country and has been handed over to the Indonesian Air Force (Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Udara:TNI-AU) for operations.
The aircraft arrived at Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport, East Jakarta, on 6 March. Its handover to the TNI-AU was conducted on 8 March, according to the Indonesian Ministry of Defense (MoD).
US President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget request would continue developing the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine. (US Navy)
US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve a fiscal year (FY) 2024 government budget request that includes USD842 billion for the US Department of Defense (DoD), up 3.2% or USD26 billion from the FY 2023 enacted level and nearly USD100 billion above the FY 2022 actual level, the Biden administration announced on 9 March 2023.
The 341st Missile Security Operations Squadron carry out security drills at a launch facility, near Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. (US Air Force)
The US Air Force (USAF) has contracted US information technology company Persistent Systems to provide mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) capability to the service’s security forces, tasked with protecting major intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fields and installations in the continental United States (CONUS).
Officials from Air Force Global Strike Command inked a USD75.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the US Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, was designed to be capable of winning a potential conflict with China. The new class of nuclear-powered ships will replace the aging US aircraft carriers one by one, eventually taking the place of the Nimitz-class ships.
The USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group embarked on its maiden deployment this past October, sailing across the Atlantic and successfully operating with numerous US allies and partners.
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A large Russian missile barrage on Ukraine Thursday included the biggest single-day volley of 9-S-7760 Kinzhal (Kh-47) hypersonic quasi-air-launched ballistic missiles, according to Ukrainian officials.
Of the 81 missiles fired into Ukraine by Russian forces, six were Kh-47s, the Ukrainian Air Force says. At least 11 people were killed and more than 20 injured during the overnight attacks, according to CNN, citing preliminary information from regional authorities.
“There was no case of allocation of this number of” Kh-47s before, Col.
Ukrainian forces have captured Russian tanks and repurposed them for defensive reasons from the beginning of the war, or at least since the Russians suffered disastrous defeats in the weeks after the invasion and were forced to evacuate from their positions in Donbas and elsewhere in Ukraine.
Video showing Ukrainian farmers dragging Russian tanks from the battlefield and delivering them to Ukrainian forces for repair or reuse has gone popular online.
Now, more than a year after the start of the war, the Ukrainian armed forces continue to use captured Russian tanks.
AFP Host L Todd Wood speaks with LTC Darin Gaub (USA, Ret) speaks about his efforts to ‘Defend the Guard’ and www.restore-liberty.org.
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As casualties mount, a victory in Bakhmut may cost more to Russia’s military than it will be worth.
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CNN reported that Australia could buy at least four US Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines as part of the landmark AUKUS pact with the United States and the United Kingdom, citing three sources familiar with the matter.
Submarine delivery could be delayed for quite some time. According to the article, the AUKUS alliance (Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) would benefit from the early declaration.
Reuters was the first to report on the planned acquisition of US Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines, stating that at least five will be purchased.
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Exactly two decades ago, Kim “KC” Campbell, now a newly minted author, was a fledgling U.S. Air Force A-10 Warthog attack jet pilot, deployed to a base in Kuwait, and counting down the hours until the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom — the U.S.-led invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The fighting that followed was ferocious, including for KC, who would end up being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism after successfully recovering her battle-damaged jet after an intense close air support mission.
I ended up as a Lance Corporal in our beloved beer club for five (mostly) glorious years. During that time, I got to do all the cowboy stuff I signed up for, along with some stuff I did not sign up to do. We can talk more about the privilege of serving among Marines later, […]
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The South Korean government last year approved export licenses for Poland to supply Ukraine with Krab howitzers, built with South Korean components, a defense procurement official in Seoul told Reuters on Wednesday.
The statements represent the first public acknowledgment that South Korea is providing, at least indirectly, weapons components to Ukraine in its battle against Russia.
It was assumed that South Korea had formally consented to or was simply turning a blind eye to the Krabs because of previous silence from Seoul officials.
If successful, the Navy’s secretive Project Overmatch could change how the sea service conducts training in the future, especially in information warfare.
Project Overmatch is the Navy’s contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), the Pentagon’s new concept for fighting, which envisions getting the right data to the right place for more informed decision making and command and control. While each of the other services have their own approaches, the Navy has been relatively tight-lipped in providing details about its effort.
Why does joining a credit union feel like being part of an elite club? Because there are so many amazing, money-saving benefits that membership can get you. In fact, Navy Federal Credit Union’s members consistently save $349 on average, every year. As opposed to non-members, those who sign up for this club get savings on service fees, low-interest rates and rate discounts, cash back, partner perks, and other discounts.
NATO’s secretary general has warned that the rest of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut could fall to the invading army over the next several days. The leader of the Russian mercenary outfit Wagner claims his forces have occupied the entire eastern section of the city.
Ukrainian defenders, who appeared to be preparing for a tactical Bakhmut retreat only a week ago, stayed defiant as one of the bloodiest fights of this year’s war raged amid the ruins.
Despite the variety of weapons in the American arsenal, saving Taiwan from a Chinese invasion could all come down to one missile.
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The Punisher is back.
Four years after the cancellation of Netflix’s The Punisher and the unceremonious end to a series devoted to one of Marvel’s most iconic anti-heroes, actor Jon Bernthal will reprise his role in the upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again.
The Hollywood Reporter first broke the news, which was also teased by Bernthal on TikTok, earlier this week.
Friday’s meeting between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden appears to have cleared the way for the 3-billion-euro contract for Israel’s anti-missile system.
During his visit to Washington on Friday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reportedly secured US President Joe Biden’s agreement in principle to purchase Israel’s Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system.
Germany has been waiting for several months for the US decision to acquire the Arrow 3 system from Israel, which the Americans would partially finance.
On left, Marines provide assistance at an evacuation control checkpoint during the Kabul Airport evacuation. On right, Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews described the 2021 suicide bomb attack at Abbey Gate to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/Marine Corps and screenshot of testimony).
The U.S. troops who guarded Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan witnessed nothing short of hell on earth, a wounded Marine told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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The U.S. Air Force is exploring a novel concept for increasing the likelihood of scoring a hit in air-to-air combat. The idea is to use an air-to-air missile with a nose that bends to get at the target before it can get away. The service views this as one path to giving current and future combat aircraft, including a sixth-generation stealth jet being developed under the Next Generation Air Dominance program, a new way to engage increasingly maneuverable threats.
In order to attract and retain more cyber talent in the future, the Department of Defense wants to reevaluate the personnel system that creates barriers to leaving service and reentry.
The just released DOD Cyber Workforce Strategy aims to provide a roadmap for how the department will grow and keep a cyber workforce in an increasingly competitive field amid a global shortage of cyber talent that organizations are vying to recruit and retain.
According to authorities, Russia has launched a barrage of missiles at energy infrastructure across Ukraine, striking homes and killing at least five people in the biggest such attack in three weeks.
Four people were killed in the Lviv region after a missile hit a residential area, Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said. After the attack, three buildings were destroyed by fire, and rescue teams searched the rubble for more possible victims.
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