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The US Army recently completed rigorous testing on the Iron Fist Active Protection System (APS) that showed significantly improved results over previous tests. The testing completed in October 2022 of the Iron Fist Light Decoupled (IFLD) system demonstrated improvements in both durability and system effectiveness, compared to the previous testing on the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The Army is considering the system to equip its Bradley, OMFV and other light armored vehicles. - Defense Upd...

Assessment of commanders and those giving advice to president biden are that what they need right now are tanks and armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles are air defenses on the front line. thats what were giving them and were giving it to them fast and giving it to them in large quantities the question of f-16s is a question for another day, for another phase. this phase is about ground combat and being able to have the tools in the hands of the ukrainians. >> why not take t...

Military help for Ukraine is moving towards serious questions of logistics – but more countries still need to step forward. Here is how the next-stage coalition could look.

The Pentagon’s chief weapons tester recently revealed that when soldiers fire the main gun, “high levels of toxic fumes” fill the vehicle.

Russian defenses in the eastern part of the country. the russians are digging in right now and ukraine needs to take that territory back. >> what do you make of the kremlin warning that if the u.s. does give this patriot missile system to ukraine it could drag u.s. soldiers into ground combat in ukraine? is there any truth to that? >> no. its ridiculous. and part of their warning was if we give them patriot missile batteries that makes them legitimate targets for attack, wolf. no kidding. of cou...

Intense rain. indeed, russias failure to make such tangible successes hat led to the firing of at least two top russian commanders, according to u.s. officials, including the former general in charge of capturing and holding kharkiv. which is the former -- and the former admirable the mocks, via the black sea ship which was famously told to go f yourself by some ukrainian soldiers, who were stationed on sneak island. apparently that is also the message that putin gave the ships commander. putin ...

Target we are not told what happened but we know it was destroyed completely. the authority said there were no casualties however. lets move on to this military intelligence assessment that russia could have lost a third of its ground combat forces it has committed in this invasion. given what you have seen since you have been there, is it credible? absolutely. if you have seen some of the images coming out, for example, the satellite and drone images of the attempted russian crossing of the siv...

Well respect whatever decision they make. weve long supported natos open door policy and the right of all countries to decide their own futures, their policies, their security arrangements. the ministry of defence says russia is likely to have lost a third of the ground combat forces it committed to the invasion. the intelligence assessment said the russian offensive had stalled and fallen behind schedule. overnight, a russian missile strike hit the western region of lviv, from wherejoe inwood r...

Of ukraines eurovision victory were dying down. they were replaced by the sound of air raid sirens, not an unfamiliar sound in this part of the country. when we woke up, we were told that six missiles, maybe more, had come over. two had been shot down, but four hit a military installation just near here. we havent been told any more information than that. often when it is a military target we are not told what happened, but we know it was destroyed completely. the authorities said there were no ...

Invade non—nato members, like ukraine. sweden is now looking at its position and thinking if this can happen in ukraine, it can possibly happen here. this is what i think is actually swaying a lot of the debate, about whether nato membership make sweden and the nordic region more or less secure at this time. we nordic region more or less secure at this time. ~ ., ., ~ nordic region more or less secure at this time. ~ ., ., ~ ., this time. we look then at the diplomatic _ this time. we look the...