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Ukraine Military to Spend $544 Million on Locally-made Drones
January 14, 2023 @ 08:40 AMWidespread usage of drones in the Ukraine War has shown they can be effective while causing minimum collateral damage, pushing the countrys defense ministry to invest $544 million in 2023 to produce them locally. Oleksii Reznikov, Ukrainian defense minister, told UNN in an interview that the sum will be spent on various types of drones: aerial, ground, surface, and underwater
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Russia’s Roscosmos to Rescue ISS Crew after Meteorite Damage
January 12, 2023 @ 01:00 PMRussia's state space agency Roscosmos is sending a backup Soyuz spacecraft to evacuate International Space Station (ISS) crew after their original capsule was damaged following meteorite hit last month. The Soyuz MS-23 launch will take place on February 20, 2023 in an unmanned mode
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Japan to Build New Military Base on Uninhabited Island
January 12, 2023 @ 09:12 AMJapan started constructing a Self-Defense Forces base on uninhabited Mage Island in southwestern Kagoshima prefecture on Thursday. According to an environmental assessment report made public earlier today, this four-year project in the 8 Sqkm Island will include building runways and ammunition storage facilities
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South Korean KF-21 Fighter's Third Prototype Takes to the Skies
January 5, 2023 @ 03:12 PMSouth Koreas Defense Acquisition Program Administration has announced the first flight of the third prototype of the KF-21 Boramae fighter on Thursday. Prototypes 4 to 6 are expected to take to the skies in the first half of 2023
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Poland Buys Airbus S950 VHR Optical Satellite System
January 5, 2023 @ 07:41 AMAirbus Defence and Space bagged the first export order for S950 VHR geospatial intelligence system with Poland. The deal includes development, manufacture, launch and delivery in orbit of two of the said high-performance optical Earth observation satellites
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Ukraine Tracked Russian Troops’ Phones to Strike Makiivka Barracks: Russia
January 4, 2023 @ 07:26 AMRussia has accused its own personnel of using mobile phones that allegedly led the Ukrainians right to them and strike the army barrack in Makiivka, Donetsk Peoples Republic. "It has already become obvious at present that the main cause of the occurrence was activation and large-scale use, contrary to the ban, of personal phones by personnel within the reach of enemys destruction means
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Iranian Navy Demos New Torpedo, Air Defense System and Anti-drone Missile
January 3, 2023 @ 05:07 AMIrans Navy demonstrated capabilities of its new homegrown torpedo Mian, and anti-drone system Talash during a large-scale war game underway in the area stretching from the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz to the northern tip of the Indian Ocean. On the third day of the Zolfaqar 1401 drill, the Navys Tareq submarine annihilated underwater target by firing Miad for the first time, Irans
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Ukraine Utilizing Starlink Satellite System for Communications as Russia Bombs Mobile Towers
December 28, 2022 @ 03:45 PMUkrainians have made use of Elon Musks Starlink satellite internet systems for communications as Russia continues to target mobile towers in what is touted to be the first major war of the internet age. Ukraine has some 30,000 mobile-phone towers, and the government is now trying to link them to generators so they can keep working when airstrikes damage the power grid
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Three Dead as Ukrainian UAV Shot down over Russia’s Engels Air Base...
December 27, 2022 @ 07:00 AMRussian air defense troops destroyed a Ukrainian drone on Dec.26 as it approached Engels air base in southern Saratov region
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Mitsubishi, INPEX Tests Long-range Communication System for Drones
December 22, 2022 @ 11:06 AMA four-company consortium comprising INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX), INPEX Pipeline (Japan) Co., Ltd
Canada May Cut F-35 Order, Consider European Jet Fighters
China's J-15 Fighter Jet Crashes During Training
U.S., Iraqi Forces Assassinate ISIS Second-in-Command, Abu Khandijah
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Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U