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RTX has come forward and voluntarily admitted 750 violations of ITAR pertaining to leaks of military information between August 2017 and September 2023. This includes the VC-25 (Air Force One), F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II and the B-2 Spirit stealth, B-1B Lancer and the F/A-18, F-15 and F-16...

Commercial drones can be easily weaponized. A Russian company makes portable drone detectors called Bulat. These units apparently scan the known frequencies in UHF and analyze the waveforms used by commercial drones, including the FPV ones, and warn the user about their transmissions in...

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/sukhoi-unveils-modified-s-71-attack-uav-concepts Sukhoi has received approval from the Russian Defense Ministry to begin producing the S-71 air-launched UAV, which has undergone significant design changes based on lessons from the...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp38v5p6g35o View: https://x.com/CapitaineIb226/status/1809583603124158638

Thought would be of interest to have a topic on this subject, rather than keep spreading such stuff in various threads. Among the big ticket items are Leopard, possibly Abrams tanks, Bradley IFV, and a variety of other stuff. Feel free to add anything else of interest that was/is/will be shown...

The headline is a bit misleading as the article talks in terms of anti-satellite weapon not a weapon to drop onto the planet. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/white-house-plans-brief-lawmakers-house-chairman-warns/story?id=107232293

Hi, in a conference proceedings book I found some interesting russian rocket projects (+ some history) at the beginning of the XXI century from these bureaus: SRC (Makayev) 1) the Volna, developed from RSM-50 SLBM (SS-N-18) 2) the Shtil, developed from the RSM-64 SLBM (SSS-N-23) 3) the...

On December 8, 2022, at the age of 68, Soviet / Russian aviation historian Mikhail Alexandrovich Maslov passed away.

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-63872209

Coming soon to eBay? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui7P0dA4sCw

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/20/ukraine-news-russia-war-putin-martial-law-strikes-drones/ Apparently a genuine malfunction, but the incident hasn't helped present tensions any.

If things get more interesting, what targets in the UK might Putin nuke? An interesting video, and some backup data: UK Limited Nuclear War Target List View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWcgF4Wwog

Thought there was a thread on this already, my apologies for the belated post. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62964177 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/science/valery-polyakov-dead.html https://www.astronomy.com/news/2022/09/valeri-polyakov-record-breaking-cosmonaut-dies-at-age-80...

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Saw a video a while back that caught the missile just before impact. Thought, "that's a Kitchen" but never heard any mention of it. Then this pops up: View: https://twitter.com/lfx160219/status/1535850776782057473 Hadn't heard anybody mention it so I thought I'd post it. (This one blew up...

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View: https://youtu.be/JkH8PxzPcVg Looks like the Russian Airforce has got their VDV concept up and Running. Bet they learned a lot from Syria theater. And its funny how JANES again got things wrong.. https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/russian-airborne-forces-retool-for-expanded-role

https://twitter.com/i/events/1447110071876349952

Considering at least a full-scale mock-up if not prototype (shades of Checkmate) was presented at the Army-2021 exhibition, mods feel free to move this to Aerospace if that is felt to be more appropriate! Looks like the Yak-152 (powered by the 500hp RED A03 V12 diesel) has some competition - I...