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Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story sustained an estimated $3 million in damage from Sunday’s tornado in Virginia Beach, Virginia, which ripped the roof off a barracks building, downed approximately 100 trees and left the entire base without power for about 18 hours.
Five months after hundreds of gallons of toxic fire suppressant spilled at the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility, military officials have yet to release their investigation or video of the spill.
Authorities say two U.S. Army helicopters that crashed last week in Alaska, killing three soldiers, collided over a rugged, mountainous area.
Amid ongoing fighting in Eastern Ukraine, and reports of extreme casualties among Ukrainian forces, Polish Armed Forces Chief of General Staff Rajmund Andrzejczak has warned that that Kiev’s position appears to be fast declining. “War always was, is, and there is nothing to indicate otherwise – a matter of politics, […]
The Russian Defence Ministry reported on April 29 that the Ukrainian Military and accompanying foreign military contractor units had taken extreme casualties in Donetsk over the past 24 hours, with 575 casualties sustained and 24 pieces of equipment destroyed including two American supplied AN/TPQ-50 counter battery radars. “Total enemy losses […]
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry has reportedly found armaments recently supplied by Italy to be sorely wanting in quality, according to reports from the Financial Times citing anonymous sources, with not a single one of the recently delivered 20 self propelled howitzers having been usable. Although the M109 is an American […]
In the latest of multiple breakthroughs in the development of indigenous air defence systems Iran has reportedly developed a system capable of detecting the“fingerprints” of individual F-35 stealth fighters and other advanced assets fielded by adversaries. Issues with the F-35’s heavier counterpart the F-22 leading to its early retirement, and […]
Following a training mission on April 27 two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters were destroyed in a crash in Alaska, with three of the four personnel manning them killed and a fourth injured. The aircraft came from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, which formed shortly before the […]
The British Royal Navy’s largest and most costly warship the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales is currently being stripped for parts, after multiple performance issues culminating in incidents of flooding and major mechanical failures forced the new ship into a long period of repairs. Not only have items such […]
Amid ongoing hostilities in Eastern Ukraine large numbers of Polish military contractors have reportedly been deployed to reinforce Ukrainian positions, according to the head of the Russian Wagner Group paramilitary force Yevgeny Prigozhin who has overseen many of the operations in the area. “Well-trained enemy units are now being tossed […]