Helicopter crash in Afghan Southern Helmand province; 1 US soldier killed, 2 wounded





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Seoul Increases Combat Readiness After North Korea Test of Hydrogen Bomb





http://sputniknews.com/military/20160106/1...-readiness.html

CIA?



hmm... why not just rubber bullets



lol.. dont think they are a match vs saudi

This Is How You Make A Hydrogen Bomb





http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/heres-how...ou-w-1619500939

The U.S. Navy Struggles to Keep Hornets Flying While the F-35 Stalls





http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/w...ighters-flying/

http://www.janes.com/article/56982/ghana-t...i-35-helicopter

they should just ditched the F-35 program long long time ago

overpriced mediocre light 'stealth' jet

What Happens When You Shoot a .50 Cal Right Down the Barrel of a Shotgun





http://sploid.gizmodo.com/what-happens-whe...e-ba-1751283443

Burning Tank Goes Out Of Control, Crushes Houses



Video from Turkey shows a Turkish tank catching fire, going out of control, and crushing houses after being struck by Kurdish rebels in the Cizre district of Şırnak Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.

The strike on the tank is just out of frame of the video, but the aftermath can be seen in which a burning, then smoldering crewman bails in front of the vehicle and is nearly run over as the tank drives out of control, down a steep bank and through three houses in a residential area.

The Cizre district has been under a constant curfew by the Turkish government for weeks as ongoing military operations aim to route out Kurdish PKK militants. Turkey recently deployed teams of special forces to find and neutralize improvised explosive devices on roadsides and in boobytrapped houses.

https://www.funker530.com/burning-tank-goes...crushes-houses/

Easier to say than done.
Massive contract tied them down.
at best reduce order on current batch.

It doom from the start

Trying to fit three services with a same frame is ridiculous. It like asking a range rover to run on petrol and also diesel while maintaining efficiency of a diesal engine when using petrol. Confusing and cant find it actual role.

Actually the idea is great but doing 3 at the same time is very taxing.
These would bring 3 times the difficulties in term of developing new tech, software development, coordinating team and so on.
A huge lesson for them to learned since the Vietnam war.
If they developed a single variant at a time they won't suffer so many setback.
Well too ambitious.

PHOTOS: ISIS MILITANTS AMONG FIGHTERS OF THE UKRAINIAN REGIMENT ‘AZOV’















https://vk.com/feed?z=album251480481_226488583

Enemy of my enemy is my friend.

YPG set to restore electricity in liberated Tishrin dam – Map update



Today, spokesmen of the Kurdish militias ‘Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) and ‘People’s Protection Units’ (YPG) announced they would restore electricity in the Tishrin dam region within the next two months. The area west of the Euphrates river has been heavily bombarded by coalition jets who have assisted Kurdish militias to combat the Islamic State (ISIS); However, many industrial buildings have been left in tatters due to airstrikes launched by the US-led anti-ISIS coalition. Therefore, much regional infrastructure is in desperate need of rebuilding.

A day before Christmas Eve, on the 23rd of December, Kurdish militants loyal to the YPG and SDF launched a massive offensive on the ISIS-held areas along the Euphrates river in the far east of Aleppo governorate. Since launching the offensive, more than 100 villages have been wrestled from ISIS militants who quickly fled the area after their first line of defence collapsed. Remarkably, Kurdish militants also rushed past the Jabal Ask Shaykh Inan mountains, crossed the Tishrin bridge, imposed full control over Tishrin and secured a buffer zone around the town. However, over the past few days, both positions have reached a stalemate.

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/ypg-se...ed-tishrin-dam/

The only thing that set the program back is the B STOL version. The other version seems OK. No country have ever successfully develop a supersonic VTOL fighter. The closest is the Russian Yak-104. But it was ended along with the Dissolution of Soviet Union.

INTERNATIONAL MILITARY REVIEW – SYRIA, JAN. 5, 2016



On January 4, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Al-Nusra (Syrian Al-Qaeda group) launched a counter-assault near the Battalion 82 Headquarters inside Sheikh Miskeen in the Dara’a Governorate’s northern countryside. As result the militants took control of a number of building blocks in the town. According to the ground reports, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies control roughly 60 percent of Sheikh Miskeen, including the Battalion 82 HQ building and the main base. Separately, the Syrian forces are advancing at the strategic hilltop of Tal Hamad located between Sheikh Miskeen and Nawa. At the moment, the SAA and its allies haven’t gained any major results there.

The SAA supported by the National Defense Forces (NDF) and took control of the village of Ruweisat Al-Qubayb in the Latakia province after a series of intense firefights with Al-Nusra and the FSA. The Syrian sources argue that 19 militants were killed in these clashes. Additionally, the SAA secured the entire village of Qassab. It was a scene of the clashes past weekend. With Qassab, Burj Al-Qassab, and Ruweisat Al-Qubayb under their control, the Syrian forces are able to advance on the village of Salma located at the Kurdish Mountains.

Last night, the pro-government forces launched an offensive operation in the eastern farms of Marj Al-Sultan in the East Ghouta region. At the moment, the clashes are going in the village of Al-Bilaliyah. Also, the Syrian forces are conducting operations to secure the eastern and western flanks of Marj Al-Sultan. These actions are aimed to build a substantial buffer-zone around the military airfields and the village. The Russian Air Force in Syria is continuing to support the pro-government forces with frequency about 60 sorties every day. The main activity of the Russian warplanes is focused in the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Raqqa, Homs, Deir ez-Zor and Hama. The ISIS and al Nusra terrorist groups are main targets.

http://southfront.org/international-milita...ria-jan-5-2016/

How SUGAR could make stealth jets invisible: Anti-reflective coating made from sucrose conceals aircraft from radar







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Must be Chechens or Dagestanis.



A lot of anti-russian volunteers in Ukraine since the civil war began. A lot of Muslim Tatar, Dagestani and Chechen volunteers from Russia itself grabbing the chance to fight the Russian and their Eastern Ukrainian allies.

This post has been edited by MilitaryMadness: Jan 7 2016, 08:16 AM

did they enter illegally or did Ukraine allow them in? still got heavy fighting?