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Replenish those weapons. you are in a position to know what capabilities we do and dont have. do you share that concern? how long are we prepared to provide this kind of supply to the ukrainians over a period of, what could be months? >> well, it is a concern. we are using up wartime stocks. these are weapons that we have set aside in case we needed them. and so, i think it is absolutely appropriate that we move them to ukraine. and then we need to have a plan. as the presidents budget this year...

Talking about are the sort of drones that can be deployed to hunt out targets. and called the switchblade. and theyre designed to really to kill soft skin vehicles and troops on the ground. not to till tanks. if the ukrainians can exploit the system alongside the drones. they can launch air strikes using these systems against russian forces deep in the rear. and that is important. night vision goggles everyone understands that gives them the ability to fight more effectively at night. and other ...

They can treat injuries that they sustain on the battlefield, so that is one line of effort. we have a couple different lines such as train the trainer program and special operation to build up capability of our partners and this translates capabilities to our partner population, so they can train their own people and beyond that, what weve been doing is translating key u.s. guides and documents such as u.s. army tactical course into ukrainian and making it publicly available, looking for popula...

The new royal research ship, the rrs sir david attenborough, has completed trials to prove its capabilities as an ice—breaker during its maiden voyage to antarctica. the £200 million polar vessel — popularly known as boaty mcboatface — has been smashing through thick frozen ice floes. a final assessment of its performance is still awaited, but the attenborough is now very close to being declared a fully serviceable ship for science and logistics at the highest latitudes. and in cricket, e...

Vladimir putin retaliating against the united states directly? >> with vladimir putin owl, anything is possible. he is a thug, he bombs maternity hospitals, religious institutions. he knows no limit. i was near where the president was this weekend, just a few weeks ago. these little kids, coming across the border, leaving everything behind, all of their lives in their backpacks. moms leaving their husbands behind to fight, he does not care. and when you are dealing with somebody like that, in vl...

>> reporter: those attacks monitored 24/7 in this classified command center more than 70% of military satellite communications come through here everything from nuclear command and control orders, to presidential communications, down to coast guard cutter, submarine even tactical units on the ground >> if they dont have communications when they need it, things can go seriously wrong. >> reporter: as the navy has sailors, new space force has guardians, many with engineering degrees and training f...

Capabilities on the cyberwarfare front to go on offensive that will allow us to cause major damage to the russia military and russia regime and everything from a perspective and were very good at that and very good at military on the cyberwarfare with cybercommand and also very good with the nsa and cybercapabilities so those are all on table to see a attack from russia. >> if were going to attack putin we have to bring him down to his niece and it -- cyberis a big component of that. thank you f...

Of sense to try to fight nose-to-nose. youre trying to cut them out at the achilles heel, rather than box them and try to knock them out in the face. >> i want to get your take on what we heard from barbara starr at the top of the program which is the united states is now sending more troops and also curiously some new jets. e-18g growlers, electronic warfare jets. sending them to germany, inside of nato. what does that tell you? is it just were sending more capability or do the specific capabil...

That provide jamming capabilities and they have missiles that can be used to fire at targets that are active that are painting, as we call it, this particular jet or other jets in a package. these navy jets are based on the fa 18, which is the basic airframe we have here. but the jamming pods are very important because what they do is go after enemy radar and they make it hard for the enemy to figure out where ukrainian assets would be at or nato assets would be at. they are a critically importa...

Altitudes, but what the ukrainians are looking for is the next level up, the sa8 and s—300, which have longer range and are, yeah, capable of faster targets as well. so, dr bury, that is their wish list. now, we have already learned, havent we, with poland? they have been more than willing to supply some planes that ukraine said they could use, but they havent been able to because of the implications of nato entering the conflict. what can they supply ukraine with? you are saying that there is...