The War Zone Taiwan recently retired its Hawk surface-to-air missile systems, which the U.S. may be buying back and sending to Ukraine. SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images A Taiwanese Hawk launcher on display during a public event in 2011. 玄史生 via Wikimedia “We will not discuss specific numbers related to production capacity or inventory, nor […]
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The War Zone A doorway to the Air Force making use of contractor-operated tankers to reduce the strain on its own fleets may finally be cracked open. Metrea A privately-owned KC-135R tanker refueled U.S. Air Force aircraft for the first time in a recent exercise. For years now, the service has been exploring the idea
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The War Zone Despite coming under heavy fire, Ukrainian forces are still lodged on the Russian-controlled side of the Dnipro River. Ukraine continues to maintain a small bridgehead on the Russian-occupied side of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast, but it is under heavy fire, according to Kremlin-connected milbloggers. “Ukrainian formations continue to supply the
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The War Zone With the French donation of the SCALP cruise missile, Ukraine receives another long-range weapon to strike targets far beyond the front. MBDA French President Emmanuel Macron officially announced that his nation is sending Ukraine SCALP-EGs air-launched, conventionally armed cruise missiles. He made the declaration Tuesday during the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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The War Zone The Office of Naval Intelligence is sounding the alarm about the huge gap in U.S. and Chinese shipbuilding capacity and its implications. USN A U.S. Navy briefing slide is calling new attention to the worrisome disparity between Chinese and U.S. capacity to build new naval vessels and total naval force sizes. The
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The War Zone Australia will deploy an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to Germany later this year where it will support airspace surveillance efforts over Ukraine. USAF The Royal Australian Air Force is set to deploy one of its E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft to Germany later this year. This appears to be the
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The War Zone The small but potentially significant push deeper south in Zaporizhzhia Oblast puts Ukrainian troops a step closer to Crimea. Twitter Screencap Pushing along several vectors in its counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces appear to be making continued progress in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on her Telegram channel Monday that
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The War Zone Get out of the fallout! Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Welcome to Bunker Talk. This is a weekend open discussion post for the best commenting crew on the net, in which we can chat about all the stuff that went on this week that we didn’t cover. We can also talk about
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The War Zone The DPICM cluster shells will help break Russia’s stubborn trench networks and keep Ukraine’s supply of critical artillery up. Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images The counteroffensive, now into its second month, has been “hard sledding, because the Russians had six months to dig in,” Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
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The War Zone Cluster munitions are highly controversial, but Ukraine has its reasons why they can be crucial to unseating deeply entrenched Russian forces. US Army / Jackehammond via Wikimedia The U.S. military has confirmed that there are ongoing deliberations about the possibility of sending certain types of so-called Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (DPICM), a
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