Sputnik/Paris: Joint air exercises by the Israel Air Force and the United States began on March 24 in the skies of the Hebrew state despite the coronavirus epidemic, said Jonathan Conricus, spokesman for the Israeli army. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic , Israel and the United States began joint military maneuvers on Tuesday, March 24 in the southern Hebrew state, said IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus during […]
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Three sailors on one of the US Navy’s largest vessels, the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, have tested positive for COVID-19 about two weeks after visiting Vietnam. Just a day after beginning laboratory batch testing onboard three US Navy vessels, the first cases of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus have been found among sailors in the Pacific Fleet. Three sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore […]
For decades, the US Marine Corps has served more as a counterpart to the Army than the Navy, but all that’s about to change. By 2030, the service wants to shed vast parts of its land combat forces in favor of new naval units in preparation for conflict in the South China Sea. Since the US war in Korea, Marines have more often found themselves fighting […]
Sputnik/Moscow: The K-560 Severodvinsk, a Yasen-class nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with anti-ship and land attack cruise missiles, will soon be equipped to carry the Zircon, a new scramjet-powered maneuverable anti-ship missile capable of accelerating to speeds of up to 11,100 km per hour. Earlier this year, in an article on the most fearsome missile submarines in the […] Source
First Daughter Ivanka Trump, working from home amidst the coronavirus pandemic, went online to post some cheery throwback photos of an indoor campout she had with her children Arabella and Joseph, urging families to “come together.” I have an idea that will bring your family close together but it involves a judge, a jury, and some very sturdy bars. #TogetherApart — Liddle’ Savage (@littledeekay) March 17, […]
The United States moved to “secure” oil rich-regions of eastern Syria late last year after moving troops away from the border with Turkey, sparking international condemnation and charges that Washington’s actions were a violation of international laws against pillaging. After looting of factories in Idlib, Aleppo, Erdogan says Turkey “proposed joint management of oil fields in Deir Ezzor, Syria with Russia”. The oil currently being stolen […]
On March 2nd, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria published a report suggesting that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) (and it’s Russian supporters) had carried out airstrikes on civilian infrastructure such as medical facilities in its fight against the al-Qaeda affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Turkish media lost no time in immediately accusing both the SAA and its Russian support of carrying out war crimes while fighting […]
An American delegation sponsored by Turkey’s president and head of Al Qaeda in the Anatolian Peninsula, or EAQ (Erdogan’s Al Qaeda) was intended to be present as witnesses for a staged chemical attack by the White Helmets. Their leader, former MI 6 “false flag” specialist, James Le Mesurier, committed suicide by being thrown out of a window in Istanbul by Turkish intelligence operatives after a feud […]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming more and more embroiled in a direct fight with Syria over Idlib Province. The fighting is direct across the border from Hatay, a province that was given to Turkey in 1939 after a disputed referendum. Turkey grabbed the Alexandretta province from French Syria in 1939 after a rigged referendum.Will UN Security Council condemn this unilateral territorial change?#GolanHeights pic.twitter.com/DrT4ZGBQBl — […]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming more and more embroiled in a direct fight with Syria over Idlib Province. The fighting is directly across the border from Hatay, a province which was given to Turkey in 1939 after a disputed referendum. Turkey grabbed the Alexandretta province from French Syria in 1939 after a rigged referendum.Will UN Security Council condemn this unilateral territorial change?#GolanHeights pic.twitter.com/DrT4ZGBQBl — […]
In February 1945, top Soviet ace Ivan Kozhedub managed to destroy Nazi Germany’s Me-262, the world’s first operational jet-powered fighter. It was during the closing stages of World War II in 1945 when military aviation finally entered the jet age which saw several countries trying to develop jet-powered warplanes. Here’s a look at some of these aircraft. Me-262 The world’s first operational jet-powered fighter jet, the […]
Sputnik News: Earlier, the Syrian armed forces confirmed that large areas in Aleppo and Idlib had been liberated from terrorists. The state highway linking the Syrian capital Damascus with Aleppo, which was the country’s largest city before the war, is officially open to civilian traffic without restrictions, the Syrian Minister of Transport Ali Hamoud said on Saturday. “The Damascus-Aleppo highway is officially open to traffic, and […]
Sputnik/Moscow: The Turkish military and Turkish-backed militias and Syrian forces became engaged in a shooting war in Syria’s Idlib province following a Syrian artillery attack on a Turkish observation post last week. Damascus began an operation in the province in December amid repeated attacks on its forces by terrorist militants operating in the region. The Syrian Army has warned that its air defences would shoot down […]
Sputnik/Moscow: There were reports earlier of US military vehicles entering northeastern Syria’s Al-Hasakah province from Iraq, including tanks and engineering equipment. The Russian centre for Syria reconciliation says the US forces in the northeast of the country are supplying the local militants with large quantities of weaponry and ammunition that is being used against civilians and Turkish troops. “The US command in the region is intensively saturating […]
On Saturday, Russia solemnly marked Warriors-Internationalists Day, a holiday dedicated to the thousands of Soviet soldiers who served in conflicts around the world during the Cold War. In honour of the occasion, journalist Andrei Kots sat down with Maj. Gen. (ret.) Sergei Kramarenko, a decorated Soviet Air Force ace who served in the Second World War and earned the title ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ for […]
On a personal note, Turkey is a fine country with wonderful people, lots of cool ruins and great food. VT loves Turkey and VT staffers have many good friends in Turkey, some run their army, their navy and their intelligence services. Sputnik/Moscow: Earlier this week, the ambassador revealed that the recent rise in tensions between Moscow and Ankara over Russian support for Syria in Idlib had […]
Sputnik/Moscow: The US president’s comments come as Democratic presidential hopeful and former Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has risen to second place in his party’s nomination race, following Senator Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. US President Donald Trump on Thursday during an interview on Fox News’s “Roadkill With Geraldo” podcast said by phone that he would give his voice to a gay presidential candidate. In response to […]
ANKARA (Sputnik) – Escalation in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib has triggered anti-Russian sentiment on Turkish social media, Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Aleksei Erkhov, said in an interview with Sputnik on Thursday, adding that he also has been threatened. Murder of Ambassador Karalov by Turkish police officer, Mevlut Mert Altinas, a member of Erdogan’s political party who says this was revenge for Russian aid against al […]