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EUCOM Commander: Russia Not Likely to Invade Ukraine Soon
April 15, 2021 4:40 PM
Sgt. 1st Class Richard Winterfeld, company-level training advisor, observes Armed Forces of Ukraine troops conducting movement down a road at Combat Training Center-Yavoriv, Ukraine, March 30, 2021. U.S. Army Photo
While the current build-up of Russian forces near Ukraine rivals the 2014 annexation of Crimea – when Russia openly backed separatists trying to sever ties to Kyiv – the United States’ top commander in Europe today described the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine in the coming weeks as between “low and medium.”
Testifying Thursday before the House Armed Services Committee, Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters said whether the threat will continue to increase after that “depends on the disposition of the forces.”
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Shadow replacements shine at U.S. Army’s rainy drone ‘rodeo’
By Dan Parsons | March 3, 2021
Estimated reading time 9 minutes, 8 seconds.
One after the other, four potential replacements for the Army’s RQ-7 Shadow drone wowed soldiers and their commanders during a flight demonstration in a chilly Georgia downpour that would have grounded the legacy drone.
“Hello from cold, wet, and dreary Fort Benning,” Brig. Gen. Walter Rugen, director of Future Vertical Lift at Army Futures Command, told reporters during a conference call on March 2. “Shadow could never fly in this type of moisture, couldn’t even come close.”
A U.S. Army soldier on Feb. 25 monitors the vertical flight of a Martin V-Bat drone, one of four competing to replace the RQ-7 Shadow tactical UAS. U.S. Army Photo by Mr. Luke J. Allen