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[Link] A Rare Look Inside Russia’s Massive ‘Satan’ Nuclear Missile
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
In April 2022, two months after Russia escalated its invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin test fired a RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a weapon the West calls the Satan 2.
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[Link] SAS soldier denies colluding with Ben Roberts-Smith on evidence, defamation trial hears
Read: 6/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
A serving SAS soldier has denied in court that emails between him and Ben Roberts-Smith – including marked-up pictures of a compound in Afghanistan – demonstrated they had colluded on their evidence about a mission, during which the newspaper defendants allege two civilians were murdered.
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[Link] Witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies he is a ‘liar and a fantasist’
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A former SAS soldier who testified that Ben Roberts-Smith ordered him to stage a mock execution of a comrade during a training drill has defended himself in court against accusations he was a liar and fantasist who was trying to justify his own failures as a soldier.
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[Link] 'Rumours expanded tenfold': Defamation trial hears a surprising comparison of elite SAS unit
Read: 13/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
But what they share, according to evidence heard in a Sydney court this week, is a propensity for rumours. The surprising analogy was drawn by a Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) witness at the defamation trial of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith against three newspapers.
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[Link] There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Non-Kinetic’ No-Fly Zone
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
On March 7, Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich tweeted a thread of various Ukraine and defense updates.
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[Link] Huge Russian convoy outside Kyiv disperses after reports of food, fuel shortages
Read: 13/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Satellites have captured imagery of a convoy of Russian forces that had been slowly advancing towards the Ukraine capital having dispersed and redeployed into nearby locations.
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[Link] How Ukraine is using a powerful weapon that is too difficult for Russians to detect
Read: 9/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine's allies have sent some 17,000 anti-tank weapons into the battlefield, in a bid to help fighters bog down the Russian offensive.
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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War
Read: 9/3/2022 time.com
The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).
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[Link] Witness tells court he killed a Taliban fighter credited to Ben Roberts-Smith in Victoria Cross award
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
A soldier who fought alongside Ben Roberts-Smith at the battle of Tizak where Roberts-Smith won his Victoria Cross has told the federal court he killed one of the Taliban machine gunners credited to Roberts-Smith on his official VC citation.
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[Link] Ukraine and Russia end second round of peace talks in regret, as reports dispute port city's fall
Read: 3/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine says that a second round of ceasefire talks with Russia had not yielded the results Kyiv hoped for, but the sides had discussed humanitarian corridors and agreed to speak again. Both sides said they wanted a possible ceasefire for evacuating civilians through humanitarian corridors.
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[Link] 'America's Army,' the Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
America’s Army: Proving Grounds, a game used as a recruitment tool by the United States government, is shutting down its servers on March 5, 2022 after existing in various iterations for 20 years. After that date, the game will be delisted on Steam and removed from the PSN store.
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[Link] Video Captures Horrific Moment Military Truck Rams Into Unarmed Protesters
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
At least three civilians have been killed and dozens injured in Myanmar after a military truck was caught on camera speeding towards a crowd and running down unarmed protesters.
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[Link] Court blocks bid to release secret Ben Roberts-Smith report
Read: 23/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Mr Roberts-Smith is suing The Age, Federal Capital Press and Fairfax Media, which reported serious allegations against him, including multiple unlawful killings in Afghanistan, which he denies.
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[Link] Satellites Spot Full-Scale Mockups of US Warships in Chinese Desert
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Satellite images show China has built what look like mockups of U.S. warships, including an aircraft carrier, in its northwestern desert, possibly to prepare the Chinese military for potential future conflicts.
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[Link] ‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A scientist who wrote a leading textbook on artificial intelligence has said experts are “spooked” by their own success in the field, comparing the advance of AI to the development of the atom bomb.
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[Link] Closer ties with Indonesia army the focus of joint military training in Top End
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Battling heatwave conditions and pandemic precautions, about 300 Australian and Indonesian soldiers are conducting their largest ever annual joint combat training across defence bases in the Top End.
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[Link] Swift Taliban takeover proves US and UK analysis badly wrong
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Joe Biden could not have been clearer: a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was “not inevitable”, the US president said on 8 July.
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[Link] ‘It Failed Miserably’: After Wargaming Loss, Joint Chiefs Are Overhauling How the US Military Will Fight
Read: 8/8/2021 www.defenseone.com
A brutal loss in a wargaming exercise last October convinced the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. John Hyten to scrap joint warfighting concepts that had guided U.S. military operations for decades. “Without overstating the issue, it failed miserably.
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[Link] Indonesia army signals end to ‘virginity test’ for female recruits
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Human rights organisations have welcomed the Indonesian army’s apparent decision to end the “abusive” and long-criticised “virginity testing” of female recruitments.
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[Link] Afghan Interpreters Escaping the Taliban Are Being Flown to Canada
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Flights carrying Afghani interpreters and support staff who helped the U.S. and Canadian militaries during the Afghanistan War touched down in North America over the past week, as a new Taliban offensive surges across the country.
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[Link] Japan is rethinking how to use its tanks to prepare for a potential clash with China
Read: 6/5/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Despite a few successes early in World War II, Japanese armor was hopelessly outclassed by Allied tanks as soon as they arrived in large numbers. Those experiences and the threat of a Soviet invasion led the Japanese to put much more effort into post-war tank designs.
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[Link] The B-2 Bomber: Those Who Forget History Are Doomed To Reverse Engineer It
Read: 17/3/2021 hackaday.com
The Drive had an interesting post recently, about someone noticed a procurement from the U. S. Air Force to reverse engineer the B-2 bomber’s Load Heat Exchanger (whatever that is).