To All,
Good Thursday morning January 26, 2023.
I hope that your week has been going well
It is 0800 and still waiting for the World News. It comes out a lot later these days. I may start sending the list without it and then send it when it comes in. Takes me about 20 minutes to get it into the format for the List. It showed up right after I wrote this and it took 25 minutes.
We had high winds here last night and into this morning
Regards,
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Thanks to Roger
Couple of you asked me to send/ (re)send this link.
CAPT Royce Williams USN (Ret) Navy Cross ceremony, 20 JAN 2023.
Not every day a NAVY Cross is awarded. Superb event. RLW
https://www.kusi.com/navy-captain-e-royce-williams-presented-with-navy-cross-70-years-after-service/
Rodger Welch
Captain USN (Ret)
Executive Director
Tailhook Educational Foundation
https://www.tailhook.net/tef-home
(858) 689 – 9223
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History
January 26
1913—The body of John Paul Jones is laid in its final resting place in the Chapel of Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
1943—USS Wahoo (SS 238) sinks entire convoy of four Japanese supply ships north of New Guinea.
1944—USS Skipjack (SS 184) sinks the Japanese destroyer Suzukaze and the aircraft ferry Okitsu Maru in the Caroline Islands area. Also on this date, USS Hake (SS 256) sinks the Japanese auxiliary netlayer Shuko Maru off Ambon and USS Crevalle (SS 291) sinks the Japanese gunboat Busho Maru 175 miles southeast of Cape St. Jacques, French Indochina.
1949—USS Norton Sound (AVM 1), the first guided-missile ship, launched the first guided-missile, Loon.
1960—Destroyer John S. McCain (DL 3) rescues the entire 41-man crew of the sinking Japanese freighter, Shinwa Maru, in the East China Sea.
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This Day in World History…January 26
1699 The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and the Turks.
1720 Guilio Alberoni is ordered out of Spain after his abortive attempt to restore his country's empire.
A fleet of ships carrying convicts from England lands at Sydney Cove in Australia. The day is since known as Australia's national day.
1861 Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 President Lincoln names General Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1875 Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb.
1885 General "Chinese" Gordon is killed on the palace steps in Khartoum by Sudanese Mahdists in Africa.
1924 Petrograd is renamed Leningrad.
1934 Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system.
1942 American Expeditionary Force lands in Northern Ireland.
1943 The first OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent parachutes behind Japanese lines in Burma.
1964 Eighty-four people are arrested in a segregation protest in Atlanta
1969 California is declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides.2005 Condoleezza Rice is appointed to the post of secretary of state. The post makes her the highest ranking African-American woman ever to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
Skip … … For The List for Thursday, 26 January 2023… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 26 January 1968… Tet 1968: 218 U.S. warriors KIA weekly toll…
This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War . Listed by last name and has other info https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM
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Thanks to Jack
Skip,
Here are some good ones to share with the list. Funny, but in many ways also true.
Fingers
Sardonic Senior Pearls of Wisdom:
I've learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
If you find yourself feeling useless, remember it took 20 years, trillions of dollars, and four presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
I'm responsible for what I say, not what you understand.
Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it the most never use it.
My tolerance for idiots is extremely low these days. I used to have some immunity built up, but obviously there's a new strain out there.
It's not my age that bothers me; it's the side effects.
I'm not saying I'm old and worn out, but I make sure I'm nowhere near the curb on trash day.
As I watch this generation try and rewrite our history, I'm sure of one thing: It will be misspelled and have no punctuation.
Me, sobbing: "I can't see you anymore. . . . I'm not going to let you hurt me again."
My Trainer: "It was just one sit-up."
As I've gotten older, people think I've become lazy. The truth is I'm just being more energy efficient.
I haven't gotten anything done today. I've been in the Produce Department trying to open this stupid plastic bag.
Turns out that being a "senior" is mostly just googling how to do stuff.
I want to be 18 again and ruin my life differently. I have new ideas.
God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the world. Then he made the earth round. . . and laughed and laughed and laughed.
I'm on two diets. I wasn't getting enough food on one.
I put my scale in the bathroom corner and that's where the little liar will stay until it apologizes.
My mind is like an internet browser. At least 19 open tabs, 3 of them are frozen, and I have no clue where the music is coming from.
Hard to believe I once had a phone attached to a wall, and when it rang, I picked it up without knowing who was calling.
Apparently RSVPing to a wedding invitation "Maybe next time" isn't the correct response.
She says I keep pushing her buttons. If that were true, I would have found mute by now.
So you've been eating hot dogs and McChicken's all your life, but you won't take the vaccine because you don't know what's in it. Are you kidding me?
Sometimes the Universe puts you in the same situation again to see if you're still a dumbass.
There is no such thing as a grouchy old person. The truth is that once you get old, you stop being polite and start being honest!
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Thanks to Barrel……
This explains it all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqLB8wyrE_A
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Thanks to Dr.Rich
Thanks to Bill W. ...
This wasn't important enough for a video, but I did post it on my Facebook page and I thought it might be something for your excellent aviation email circle.
Hope you've been well. Here you go:
Let me tell you about the plane crash I was just not in...
About an hour ago I was inbound to Charlotte, for the connection to my flight home to LA from Savannah. Several thick cloud layers on the way in, but the last overcast layer was at about 1800 feet or so. Then clear all the way down, except for a very thin broken layer at around 700 feet. "Broken" is defined as between 5/8 to 7/8 cloud cover, so there were lots of holes where the ground was clearly visible, and most of all that layer was thin: no more than 100 feet deep, tops. Most of that coverage was therefor transparent.
So it feels like we're less than ten seconds away from the flare, when all of a sudden the engines go to full power. The nose comes up, positive rate of climb, gear up and away we go. The almost impenetrably complex aviation term for this procedure is a "go-around," so named because instead of landing we are GOING AROUND to try again. It was only the second commercial go-around I have ever experienced in sixty years of commercial flying, which is low, because a lot of it is in California.
Here's why this particular example of a fairly routine event got my attention. That cloud deck was so broken, and so thin, that you could see a lot of ground down there. If the jet had been there three seconds earlier, or three seconds later, we would have just flown through the holes in the deck, no problem. But we didn't.
There is a an event that occurs at the very end of an instrument approach; it's called the MAP, or Missed Approach Point. This is a little bit different than "minimums." Minimums means the lowest altitude you can descend to as you continue to try to visually acquire the runway. But the MAP is the end of the line. If you don't have the runway in sight at the Missed Approach Point you must GO AROUND.
Here's the thing about this approach. For much if not most of the approach, the runway MUST have been in sight due to the thinness and patchiness of that broken layer. But by sheer chance, at the moment our aircraft reached the MAP, the runway was -- momentarily -- NOT in sight. The temptation to cheat on that one -- another second or two and he would have been able to see the runway again -- must have been nearly overwhelming; from what I was able to tell, in the time it took for the pilot flying to say "Go around," they would have been through it.
That DISCIPLINE didn't automatically prevent the plane crash I wasn't in... but it might have. If he had not gone around and run into a particularly dense patch he may not have been able to see the runway until it was visible out of every window on the airplane. As far as a survivability goes, we were going as about as slowly as the plane could fly -- which was good -- and our potential angle of impact was very shallow -- which is very, very good. But it is possible that he could have hit hard enough to bend the plane and just possibly hard enough to break the fuselage...and that means at least some fatalities.
Of course, IT NEVER HAPPENED. It was a non-event, due to the training and discipline of American (and not just American Airlines) pilots. And that's why The United States of America has flown 25,000 commercial flights per day for 7,379 days without a fatality. Since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 on November 12, 2001, that comes to roughly 185 MILLION take-offs and landings without a single fatality. That's something you should be damn proud of. I know I am. My favorite part of being a pilot is being surrounded by intelligent, serious, magnificently trained, cool-headed and supremely COMPETENT men and women who take flying seriously so that you don't have to.
Bill Whittle
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This Day in U S Military History
1784 – In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the turkey.
1856 – First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers. At the time, Seattle was a settlement in the Washington Territory that had recently named itself after Chief Seattle (Sealth), a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish peoples of central Puget Sound. Backed by artillery fire and supported by Marines from the United States Navy sloop-of-war Decatur, anchored in Elliott Bay (Seattle's harbor, then called Duwam-sh Bay), the settlers suffered only two deaths. The battle, part of the multi-year Puget Sound War or Yakima War, lasted a single day.
1863 – General Joseph Hooker assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following Ambrose Burnside's disastrous tenure. Hooker was a West Point graduate and a veteran of the Seminole War and the Mexican War, and he had served in the American West in the 1850s. When the Civil War erupted, Hooker was named brigadier general in the Army of the Potomac. He quickly rose to division commander, and he distinguished himself during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862. He also continued to build his reputation as a hard drinker and womanizer. He earned the nickname "Fighting Joe," and received command of the First Corps in time for the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862. His corps played a major role in the Battle of Antietam in September, and when Burnside failed as commander, Hooker had his chance. The general first had to deal with the sagging morale of the army. He reorganized his command and instituted a badge system, where each division had their own unique insignia. This helped to build unit pride and identity, and Hooker led a reenergized army into Virginia in April 1862. Hooker's appointment was part of Lincoln's frustrating process of finding a winning general in the east. After Irwin McDowell, George McClellan, John Pope, McClellan again, and then Burnside, Lincoln hoped Hooker could defeat Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It was a tall order, though, and Hooker was not up to the challenge. In May 1863, Hooker clashed with Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the Union army suffered a decisive and stunning defeat. Lincoln's search for an effective commander continued, and he eventually replaced Hooker with George Meade.
1911 – Glenn Curtiss piloted the 1st successful hydroplane in San Diego to and from the battleship USS Pennsylvania.
1913 – The body of John Paul Jones is laid in its final resting place in the Chapel of Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
1940 -The American-Japanese Treaty of Navigation and Commerce is allowed to lapse because the US government refuses to negotiate in protest against Japanese aggression in China.
1942 – The first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II went ashore in Northern Ireland.
1942 – The Board of Inquiry established to investigate Pearl Harbor find Admiral Kimmel, (then Commander in Chief, US Fleet) and General Short (then Commander in Chief, Hawaii Department) guilty of dereliction of duty. Both have already been dismissed.
1943 – The first OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent parachutes behind Japanese lines in Burma. OSS's Detachment 101 came perhaps the closest to realizing General Willaim "Wild Bill" Donovan's original vision of "strategic" support to regular combat operations. Under the initial leadership of "the most dangerous colonel," Carl Eifler, Detachment 101 took time to develop its capabilities and relationships with native guides and agents. Within a year, however, the Detachment and its thousands of cooperating Kachin tribesmen were gleaning valuable intelligence from jungle sites behind Japanese lines. With barely 120 Americans at any one time, the unit eventually recruited almost 11,000 native Kachins to fight the Japanese occupiers. When Allied troops invaded Burma in 1944, Detachment 101 teams advanced well ahead of the combat formations, gathering intelligence, sowing rumors, sabotaging key installations, rescuing downed Allied fliers, and snuffing out isolated Japanese positions. Detachment 101 received the Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation for its service in the 1945 offensive that liberated Rangoon.
1945 – American Lt. Audie Murphy, is wounded in France. Born the son of Texas sharecroppers on June 20, 1924, Murphy served three years of active duty, beginning as a private, rising to the rank of staff sergeant, and finally winning a battlefield commission to 2nd lieutenant. He was wounded three times, fought in nine major campaigns across Europe, and was credited with killing 241 Germans. He won 37 medals and decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star (with oak leaf cluster), the Legion of Merit, and the Croix de Guerre (with palm). The battle that won Murphy the Medal of Honor, and which ended his active duty, occurred during the last stages of the Allied victory over the Germans in France. Murphy acted as cover for infantrymen during a last desperate German tank attack. Climbing atop an abandoned U.S. tank destroyer, he took control of its .50-caliber machine gun and killed 50 Germans, stopping the advance but suffering a leg wound in the process. Upon returning to the States, Murphy was invited to Hollywood by Jimmy Cagney, who saw the war hero's picture on the cover of Life magazine. By 1950, Murphy won an acting contract with Universal Pictures. In his most famous role, he played himself in the monumentally successful To Hell and Back. Perhaps as interesting as his film career was his public admission that he suffered severe depression from post traumatic stress syndrome, also called battle fatigue, and became addicted to sleeping pills as a result. This had long been a taboo subject for veterans. Murphy died in a plane crash while on a business trip in 1971. He was 46.
1951 – Far East Air Forces flew its first C-47 "control aircraft", loaded with enough communications equipment to connect by radio all T-6 Mosquitoes, tactical air control parties, and the Tactical Air Control Center. This was the harbinger of today's warning and control aircraft.
1952 – A rescue helicopter, behind enemy lines near the coastline of the Yellow Sea, received small arms fire while rescuing an F-84 pilot, Capt. A.T.Thawley.
1953 – Surface ships blasted coastal targets as the USS Missouri completed a 46-hour bombardment of Songjin.
1953 – The last F4U Corsair rolled off the Chance Vought Aircraft Company production line. Despite the dawning of the jet age, this World War II fighter remained in production due to its vital close-air support role in the Korean War. Almost 12,000 Corsairs were produced in various models.
1954 – The Senate consents to a defense treaty between the US and South Korea.
1962 – The United States launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon, but the probe missed its target by some 22,000 miles.
1970 – U.S. Navy Lt. Everett Alvarez Jr. spends his 2,000th day in captivity in Southeast Asia. First taken prisoner when his plane was shot down on August 5, 1964, he became the longest-held POW in U.S. history. Alvarez was downed over Hon Gai during the first bombing raids against North Vietnam in retaliation for the disputed attack on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964. Alvarez was released in 1973 after spending over eight years in captivity, the first six months as the only American prisoner in North Vietnam. From the first day of his captivity, he was shackled, isolated, nearly starved, and brutally tortured. Although he was among the more junior-rank prisoners of war, his courageous conduct under horrendous conditions and treatment helped establish the model emulated by the many other POWs that later joined him. After retirement from the Navy, he served as deputy director of the Peace Corps and deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration during the Reagan administration.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
One of my favorite Cowboy actors when I was young. To Hell and Back was the Movie that told his story. He was one of the most decorated soldiers of WWII.
MURPHY, AUDIE L.
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Company B 1 5th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Holtzwihr France, 26 January 1945. Entered service at: Dallas, Tex. Birth: Hunt County, near Kingston, Tex. G.O. No.. 65, 9 August 1945. Citation 2d Lt. Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by 6 tanks and waves of infantry. 2d Lt. Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to prepared positions in a woods, while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. Behind him, to his right, 1 of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn. Its crew withdrew to the woods. 2d Lt. Murphy continued to direct artillery fire which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, 2d Lt. Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment, and employed its .50 caliber machinegun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to German fire from 3 sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. The enemy tanks, losing infantry support, began to fall back. For an hour the Germans tried every available weapon to eliminate 2d Lt. Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad which was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. Germans reached as close as 10 yards, only to be mowed down by his fire. He received a leg wound, but ignored it and continued the single-handed fight until his ammunition was exhausted. He then made his way to his company, refused medical attention, and organized the company in a counterattack which forced the Germans to withdraw. His directing of artillery fire wiped out many of the enemy; he killed or wounded about 50. 2d Lt. Murphy's indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy's objective.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for January 26, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
26 January
1911: Glenn H. Curtiss flew a seaplane from the water at San Diego, Calif. This event was a first in the U. S. (24)
1942: The first US troops arrived in North Ireland to help establish the "air bridge" between the U. S. and the United Kill. (5)
1946: Colonel William H. Councill flew a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star nonstop across the US to make the first transcontinental jet flight. He completed the 2,457 miles between Los Angeles and New York in 4 hours 13 minutes 26 seconds at an average speed of 584 MPH to set a FAI record. (24) The US AAF created the First Experimental Guided Missile Group to make and test missiles. On 6 February, the group activated at Eglin Field. (6) (12)
1949: The USS Norton Sound, the first guided missile experimental test ship, launched its first missile, the Loon. (24)
1951: KOREAN WAR. FEAF flew its first C-47 "control aircraft," loaded with enough communications equipment to connect all T-6 Mosquitoes, tactical air control parties, and the Tactical Air Control Center by radio. This was the harbinger of today's warning and control aircraft.
1953: Chance Vought Aircraft finished the last F4U Corsair. Almost 12,700 Corsairs in different variations were produced. (5)
1958: The ADC's 83d Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS) at Hamilton AFB, Calif., accepted the first F-104A Starfighter. (12)
1968: The US called ANG and AFRES units to active duty based on the Pueblo Incident and increased enemy activity in Vietnam. (16) (26)
1975: SAC completed its Force Modernization Program by installing the last flight of Minuteman IIIs in 90 SMW at Francis E. Warren AFB. The nine-year program replaced all Minuteman I missiles with either Minuteman IIs or IIIs. (1) (6)
1977: Aerojet Solid Propulsion Company successfully test-fired its M-X upper stage motor at the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory. (5)
1979: First European-built F-16 delivered in ceremonies at the SABCA plant at Charleroi-Gosselies Airport, Belgium. (12)
1982: The Ballistic Missile Office demonstrated M-X cold launch system at the Nevada Test Site. In the test, the system ejected a weight-simulated M-X shell more than 300 feet into the air. (6) Maj Gen Michael Collins (USAF Reserve), a crewmember on the Apollo XI mission to the moon, flew his last mission as a reserve officer in a F-16 at Edwards AFB. (26)
1988: At Renton, Wash., Boeing rolled out two new aircraft, the 737-400 and 747-400.
1989: At Cape Canaveral, the Navy launched its 19th and last Trident II (D-5) missile. This launch ended a series of land-launched tests that began on 15 January 1987. (8)
2004: The AFFTC at Edwards AFB carried out the first mission its new KC-135 "rain and ice" tanker. The unique USAF aircraft could replicate rain, snow or icing conditions through a four-foot shower head, with 100 air and water nozzles, mounted at the end of its refueling boom. In the mission, the tanker produced a saturated cloud for an F-22 Raptor performance test. (3)
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World News for 26 January thanks to Military Periscope
Army Announces Artillery Production Increase
Source: Defense News
January 25 2023
USA
The U.S. Army says it will significantly ramp up production of 155-mm artillery ammunition, reports Defense News. On Thursday, officials said that the service wants to expand production of exterior shells, explosives, fuzes and charges. The production ramp-up is expected to include a diversification of production locations. Currently, nearly all U.S. 155-mm ammunition is produced at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. The Army also expects to expand shell production lines at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania, a neighboring facility and a plant in Garland, Texas. Production is estimated to reach about 90,000 shells per month, up from a pre-2022 production rate of 14,400 shells per month. Since Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. has supplied Kyiv with more than 1 million 155-mm artillery shells.
F-16 Block 70 Makes 1st Flight
Source: Lockheed Martin
January 25 2023
Bahrain
USA
The first F-16 Block 70 fighter jet has made its maiden flight, reports Lockheed Martin.
The jet took off from Lockheed's Greenville, S.C., facility on Tuesday. The 50-minute flight included airworthiness checks, such as engine, flight control and fuel system checks, as well as basic aircraft handling. The Block 70 configuration features the Northrop Grumman AN/APG-83 active electronically scanned array radar, a new Raytheon mission computer, the Link 16 data link, an enhanced electronic warfare system and a ground collision avoidance system. The fighter is the first of 16 Block 70 jets purchased by Bahrain.
Pentagon Clarifies Rules On Weapons Autonomy
Source: Dept. of Defense
January 25 2023
USA
The U.S. Dept. of Defense released new policies and guidelines and established a working group on autonomous functions in weapon systems, reports the department. The policy revisions under Directive 3000.09, "Autonomy in Weapon Systems," clarify the development and responsibility guidelines that were ambiguous under the previous policy from 2012, reported Defense One. The directive also details the nature of senior-level review of autonomous weapons development and clarifies which technologies are excluded from senior-level review. The document also established the Autonomous Weapon Systems Working Group, which features representation from several offices, including the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, general counsel of the Dept. of Defense, chief digital and artificial Intelligence officer, director of operational test and evaluation and representatives from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Elbit Systems To Establish Support Center For IR Countermeasures
Source: Elbit Systems
January 26 2023
NATO
NATO has awarded Elbit Systems a contract for in-service support for infrared countermeasure systems, reports the Israeli firm. The five-year contract, the value of which was not disclosed, covers in-service support for direct infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) systems supplied for the NATO A330 Multirole Tanker Transport (MRTT) fleet. The project includes that establishment of a support center at the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) facility in Luxembourg that will provide repairs, equipment and maintenance services for the DIRCM systems. Elbit also received a follow-up contract from the NSPA for an additional J-MUSIC DIRCM system. The company has already delivered and integrated seven J-MUSIC systems on NATO A330 tankers.
Airbus Picked To Provide SATCOM Services
Source: Airbus
January 26 2023
Belgium
The Belgian Ministry of Defense has awarded Airbus a major contract for the provision of tactical satellite communications (SATCOM) services for all branches of the armed forces, reports the defense firm. Under the 15-year contract, the value of which was not disclosed, the Belgian military will use channels of the Airbus Ultra High Frequency (UHF) military communication payload onboard an Airbus-built commercial telecommunications satellite. The new UHF payload is scheduled to launch next year. The payload, operated from the Airbus Network Operations Center in Toulouse, France, offers 18 UHF channels that can support up to 200 simultaneous communications over Europe, the Middle East, Africa, large parts of Asia, as well as the Atlantic Ocean to eastern Brazil and the Indian Ocean to western Australia, Airbus said in a release.
French Troops To Withdraw After Government Request
Source: Reuters
January 25 2023
Burkina Faso
France
The French government is recalling its ambassador to Burkina Faso and pulling out its military contingent there following a request by the military government, reports Reuters. The junta's demand comes amid public complaints about the inability of French troops to resolve ongoing militant violence and the presence of foreign troops in Burkina Faso. France has maintained around 200 to 400 special operations troops as part of efforts to combat a regional Islamist insurgency that has expanded from neighboring Mali.
Government Reaffirms Interest In Indian Weapons
Source: Economic Times
January 26 2023
Egypt
India
The Egyptian government has reaffirmed its interest in purchasing Indian-made weapons, reports the Economic Times (India). During a three-day visit to India to strengthen bilateral ties, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi confirmed interest in several Indians systems. Cairo is interested in Tejas light combat aircraft, Akash missiles, smart anti-airfield systems as well as radars and military helicopters. Relations between the two nations have grown in past years, with President El-Sisi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreeing to elevate their ties into a strategic partnership.
1st Arms Export For Turkey Authorized Since 2019
Source: Middle East Eye
January 26 2023
Finland
Turkey
The Finnish government has approved the resumption arms exports to Turkey for the first time since 2019, reports the Middle East Eye (London). The first defense permit was issued to Finnish steel producer Miilux who will supply Turkish military vehicle maker BMC with 12,000 tons of armor through 2025. Finland froze defense exports to Turkey in 2019 in response to Ankara's cross-border military operation against Kurds in Syria. Turkey made the removal of arms export restrictions a key factor for its approval of Finland's NATO membership application.
9 Killed In IDF Op In Jenin
Source: Times of Israel
January 25 2023
Israel
Nine Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, reports the Times of Israel. On Thursday morning, Israel Defense Forces commandos entered the camp to arrest members of a suspected Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror cell. One militant was arrested and three were killed in the operation. The Palestinian Authority said that 20 Palestinians were injured in the raid, including four who were in critical condition. No Israeli casualties were reported.
U.S. Announces Payments For Security Personnel
Source: U.S Embassy Lebanon
January 26 2023
United Nations
USA
Lebanon
The U.S. has announced a new program offering financial assistance to members of the Lebanese armed forces and security services, reports the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. The "LAF-ISF Livelihood Support Program," operated in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), will cost US$72 million, dispersed in US$100 monthly payments to military and security personnel.The decision was made in light of Lebanon's dire economic crisis, which has left members of the military underpaid. The payments are planned to run for six months.
27 Civilians Killed In Airstrike
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
January 25 2023
Nigeria
At least 27 civilians have been killed in an airstrike in central Nigeria, reports the News Agency of Nigeria. On Tuesday night, pastoralists in Nasarawa state were loading cattle onto vehicles when they were attacked by an unidentified aircraft. Local police and political authorities decried the attack. The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) said that this is the third such extrajudicial killing of pastoralists of late.
Defense Minister Appeals To U.N. For Security Aid
Source: Guardian
January 26 2023
Nigeria
United Nations
Defense Minister Bashir Salihi Magashi has appealed to the United Nations for help stabilizing Nigerian security and eliminating threats, reports the Guardian (Lagos, Nigeria). Magashi called for funding and other resources for defense and economic initiatives to reduce the proliferation of militancy. Nigeria has been locked in fighting with Boko Haram and Islamic State militants for more than a decade and has experienced increases in banditry in parts of the country.
Reutech Develops New Navigation Radar Receiver
Source: Defence Web
January 26 2023
South Africa
South African firm Reutech Radar has developed a new navigation radar receiver that can detect ships that shut down their Automatic Identification System (AIS), reports Defence Web (South Africa). The RIS 100 Navigation Radar Intercept Sensor (NRIS) can detect vessels that "go dark" by shutting down their AIS transponder. Ships that turn off their AIS transponder are frequently involved in illegal activity but are still highly unlikely to shut off their navigation radars for safety reasons. The RIS 100 can identify those vessels that cease AIS use while still employing an active navigation radar. The radar electronic support measure receiver operates on the X-band marine radar frequency, with S-band capabilities expected to be added in the future. The system is reportedly being tested at Slangkop lighthouse in Kommetjie in South Africa's Western Cape province. A sale to an unnamed Southeast Asian customer has already been made, according to Reutech.
Suspected Terrorist Arrested After Killing 1 In Church Attack
Source: BBC News
January 25 2023
Spain
An unknown man attacked two churches in Spain before being apprehended, reports the BBC News. On Wednesday evening, the assailant entered the church of San Isidro in Algeciras in southern Spain and attacked a priest, seriously injuring him. The attacker then moved on to the church of Nuestra Senora de La Palma and fatally stabbed the verger. Spanish police said they were treating the incidents as terrorist attacks. The suspect was said to have been 25 and of Moroccan origin, reported the Gibraltar Chronicle. He had been deported from Gibraltar in 2019 for immigration offenses. S. Kordofan Province Declares State Of Emergency After Fatal Shooting
Source: The National
January 26 2023
Sudan
A state of emergency has been declared in Sudan's South Kordofan province after a fatal shooting, reports the National (U.A.E.). On Monday, armed men killed four people at a bus station in the provincial capital of Kadugli. The victims were all members of the Moro tribe. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and no assailants have been apprehended. The state of emergency will last for a month, while the government deliberates on further measures, such as curfews. The region has been gripped with violence between government forces and the insurgent Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, which has been fighting the government for decades.
Deputy FM Appointed Intel Chief
Source: Focus Taiwan
January 25 2023
Taiwan
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Tsai Ming-yen to lead the National Security Bureau as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, reports the Central News Agency (Taipei). Tsai will replace Chen Ming-tong, who has tendered his resignation. Chen was accused in August 2022 of being involved in plagiarism with a former student. Tsai, a former diplomat and international relations scholar with a doctorate in war studies from King's College London, served as Taiwan's representative in the European Union and Belgium from June 2020 until he was named deputy foreign minister in August 2022.
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