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The Alliance wants to take a longer and deeper look at what is happening in Russia, so it is deploying two AWACS aircraft to the Baltic state NATO is sending AWACS E-3 Sentry aircraft to Lithuania, where they will be stationed at Siauliai International Airport and will be “monitoring Russian military activities near the Alliance’s […]
German defense concern Rheinmetall has announced that it is starting to manufacture and repair military equipment in Ukraine. On Thursday, the German authorities authorized the creation of a joint venture involving Rheinmetall and the Ukrainian state-owned Ukrainian Defense Industry (formerly Ukroboronprom). This was reported by the BBC. Later, the German concern published a message on […]
China plans to take all its pandas from American zoos. This is the first time in 50 years that this has happened and may indicate growing tensions between China and the United States. It is noted that three pandas from the Washington National Zoo are due to return to China by December 2023 after a […]
The Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces have marked an important milestone. For the first time, the military service has carried out a “hot” refueling of the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter jet outside the country. Last month, Japanese experts were able to replenish the fuel supply in F-35 Lightning II fighters with F135 engines on. It […]
Elon Musk, concerned about SpaceX’s “potential involvement in the war in Ukraine,” launches an alternative satellite Internet network that the US government can use for its own benefit. SpaceX has signed its first contract with the US Space Force to launch the government’s Starshield satellite network, Bloomberg reports. The idea, first announced in December, came […]
On September 28, the U.S. Civil Rights Agency filed a lawsuit against Tesla, accusing the company of brutal harassment of African-American employees at its factory in Fremont, California. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in a lawsuit that since 2015, black workers at Tesla’s plant have been regularly subjected to racist insults and […]
On the night of September 29, a Ukrainian drone attacked an electrical substation in the Kursk region of Russia. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine. According to the interlocutor, it was to this power substation that important military facilities of the Russian invaders were connected. The service warned the Russians that if […]
Business Insider correspondents talked to American retired artilleryman Dan Rice. In his opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will receive an outdated version of ATACMS M39 from the United States. Such missiles were used by the US Army in Iraq in the early 1990s. Rice argues that even in the M39 version, the ATACMS missile is […]
During his speech in Arizona, US President Joe Biden called former President Donald Trump and his supporters “extremists.” According to him, “something dangerous is happening in the United States.” “There is an extremist movement that does not share the core beliefs of our democracy: the MAGA movement,” Biden said, referring to Trump’s slogan “Make America […]
On Thursday, September 28, the Iranian capital witnessed a major fire that engulfed a Ministry of Defense plant. This was reported by the Iranian state media. According to media reports, the explosion and fire occurred at a car battery plant. The company is owned by the Iranian Ministry of Defense. This is the second fire […]