The Russian Army has begun fielding Terminator tank support vehicles after decades of development. The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that the first batch of Terminator tank support fighting vehicle was officially handed over to the 90th Tank Division in the Chelyabinsk region of the Urals. Now, after decades of development, the Russian military begins field training with new combat vehicles that armed with two […]
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ESG Aerosystems has reported that it was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for support of the German Navy P-3C fleet. “ESG Aerosystems is proud to be awarded a $ 64.5 M U.S. Navy Contract for which MHD-ROCKLAND is excited to be the sole-source aircraft Subcontractor,” it said in a statement. As noted by the company, ESG Aerosystems has been awarded a U.S Navy Contract […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded the American plane-maker Boeing a contract to support its E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post, commonly known as ‘doomsday plane’. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Defense said that Boeing has received a new order in the estimated amount of $196 million for E-4B support. Within the contract, the Option Five exercise will provide E-4B program management, field service representatives, system […]
Huntington Ingalls Industries, America’s largest military shipbuilding company has announced that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has been awarded a contract modification from General Dynamics Electric Boat in support of construction on the first two Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines. As noted by the company, the contract modification, valued at approximately $2.2 billion, provides continued design support efforts, as well as the construction and delivery of six […]
Aerospace giant Boeing Co. has been contracted for logistics support for the AH-64D/E Apache attack helicopter, according to a press release issued by U.S. Department of Defense. The deal, which was a modification to a previous contract, was worth almost $24,1 million and covered work in Mesa, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2025. Also noted that the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone […]
The U.S. Department of Defense announced on Friday an agreement worth about for $34 million for logistics support for the Afghanistan Air Force MD-530F aircraft fleet. Within the deal, which was a modification to a previous contract, MD Helicopters Inc. will perform support of Afghanistan’s MD-530F light attack and reconnaissance helicopters. Work will be performed in Mesa, Arizona; and Kabul, Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date […]
The U.S. Department of Defense just awarded aerospace giant Boeing a contract worth nearly $10 billion for F-15 fighter jet support for Saudi Arabia. The award, announced by the U.S. Department of Defense on Tuesday, covers modernization and sustainment of the F-15 Royal Saudi Air Force fleet to include such efforts as hardware, software, and interface design, development, integration, test, subsystem and structural component production and […]
Calls For Universal Basic Income Increase As Government Support Fails By Jasmine Norden, The Canary. November 10, 2020 Calls For Universal Basic Income Increase As Government Support Fails2020-11-102020-11-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/ubi.png200px200px Above photo: Via YouTube/The Matt Skidmore Show and YouTube/The Telegraph. Elected representatives across the UK have called on the government to prevent poverty by trialling Universal Basic Income (UBI). On 30 October, 520 MPs, councillors, peers, mayors and members of […]
Aerospace giant Boeing has won three foreign military sales contracts valued at as much as $800 million for training services and support in the Middle East. Boeing today acknowledged three foreign military sales contracts with the U.S. Air Force for training services and support in the Middle East valued at more than $800 million. The first previously unannounced contract was awarded in 2019 and will support […]
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) that specializes in providing a professional, solid, adversary air presentation, announced Monday that it has been selected to continue to provide the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps with fleet fighter jet training support services under the Fighter Jet Services (FJS) program. ATAC, part of the Textron Systems, will provide up to 8,500 flight hours per year of fleet support air […]
Famed U.S. rotorcraft maker MD Helicopters, Inc. has announced two independent contract awards from Army Contracting Command-Redstone to support allied operations of the MD 530F Cayuse Warrior helicopter. According to a company news release, the first contract, worth $6.1 million, requires MDHI to retrofit 18 legacy MD 530F helicopters operated by the Afghanistan Air Force with ballistic-tolerant crashworthy fuel systems (CWFS). Jointly developed with Robertson Fuel Systems, […]
Massive Rally In Support Of Sipekne’katik Harvesters, Treaty Rights By Elizabeth McSheffrey, Global News. October 19, 2020 Massive Rally In Support Of Sipekne’katik Harvesters, Treaty Rights2020-10-192020-10-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/halifax-e1603109587268.jpg200px200px Above photo: About a thousand people rallied in Halifax’s Grand Parade on Oct. 18, 2020, to show their support for Mi’kmaq harvesters exercising their treaty rights on Nova Scotia’s southwestern shore. Elizabeth McSheffrey/Global News. Halifax, Nova Scotia – About a […]
How Can People In The US Support Peace In Nagorno-Karabakh? By Nicolas J. S. Davies, Intrepid Report. October 18, 2020 How Can People In The US Support Peace In Nagorno-Karabakh?2020-10-182020-10-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/nagornok-e1603043040952.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Celestino Arce Lavin / ZUMA / TASS. Americans are dealing with an upcoming general election, a pandemic that has killed over 200,000 of us, and corporate news media whose business model has degenerated to selling different versions […]
Following the 2014 coup and the establishment of a military government, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha granted himself sweeping powers to curb opposition. The 2019 election saw the former officer returned to office while opposition groups dispute the legitimacy of the poll. Thousands of activists marked the fourth day of anti-government protests by occupying key areas of Bangkok on Sunday in opposition to a ban on demonstrations. The crowds […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010161080793872-republican-national-committee-accuses-twitter-of-illegal-support-for-biden/ Twitter and Facebook recently curbed the circulation of a New York Post exposé on Hunter Biden’s business dealings abroad, possibly involving his father, former US Vice President Joe Biden. Source link
USDC is being added to its third blockchain: Stellar. Announced Thursday during the Stellar Development Foundation’s quarterly review call, the addition of the dollar-backed stablecoin seeks to bolster Stellar’s standing as a cross-border payments network. “We are focused on creating equitable access to the financial system by building a global network that delivers services to users regardless of their geography,” Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon […]
The latest opinion poll on support for independence has reported its findings on Wednesday and they make grim reading for the dwindling band of British state apologists. Since the beginning of 2020 eleven separate opinion polls in succession have recorded majority support for independence at anywhere between 51% to 55%. Now the twelfth has rocked the shaky Westminster foundations and set off alarm bells throughout unionist […]
President Donald Trump has returned to the campaign trail a week after being discharged from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre. Political analyst Thomas Sutton and body language expert Allan Pease have analysed the president’s latest performance in Florida, the first one since he contracted the coronavirus. On 12 October, the president held a rally in Sanford, Florida, while on Thursday, Trump will take part […]
Watching well heeled, well paid and pompous Tories on the news all morning trying to convince us there is no money left in the cookie jar to support millions of workers facing the sack due to increased Covid19 restrictions made me think about nuclear weapons and the narrow contrived parameters of political discourse in the UK. Not one journalist had the cojones to ask how the […]
Swedish citizen and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 17, is encouraging US voters to “get organized” and vote for Joe Biden, despite claiming she does not “engage in party politics.” Thunberg made her endorsement while citing a tweet from Scientific American Magazine telling voters to “protect science instead of destroying it” by voting Donald Trump out of office in November. “I never engage in party politics. But […]
The niece of the late terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has said that her support for US President Donald Trump has earned her more public disdain than her familial link to the al-Qaeda founder, even destroying friendships. While Noor bin Ladin – who spells her surname differently from her deceased uncle – said the public response to a pro-Trump column she penned last month has been […]
Facebook has removed hundreds of fake profiles it has linked to the conservative group Turning Point USA for carrying out organized attacks on the site, including attempts to influence public conversations by flooding news articles with pro-Trump comments and misinformation. The move was prompted by reporting last month in the Washington Post that found Turning Point Action, an affiliated pro-Trump group, was paying teenagers to post coordinated messages […]
U.K. based fintech bank Revolut has partnered with Fireblocks, a digital asset transaction and storage platform, to provide a secure payments infrastructure for the digital bank’s new cryptocurrency services. Announced Thursday, Revolut will use Fireblocks’ wallet and network infrastructure when it offers new crypto services for its 13 million global retail customers. Source link
Missile Defense Has Bipartisan Support Even Though It Wastes Money By Subrata Ghoshroy, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. October 6, 2020 Missile Defense Has Bipartisan Support Even Though It Wastes Money2020-10-062020-10-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/missile-e1602009277137.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Nike Zeus antiballistic missile system, developed in the 1950s and 1960s, was designed to defend against a Soviet nuclear attack against the US mainland. It was never deployed. Public domain. The program to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/05/1080671597_87:0:1287:675_1200x675_80_0_0_00581428554414e9549bbb92f84df96f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010051080672215-watch-pro-trump-protesters-block-new-yorks-5th-avenue-to-support-covid-stricken-president/ White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has said that US President Donald Trump’s condition continued to improve overnight, adding that the president could be able to leave the hospital and return to the White House later in the day. A caravan of more than 100 vehicles blocked New York’s 5th Avenue on Sunday to express support for US […]
Eesti Pank said the initiative will gauge the suitability of the KSI Blockchain, already used within the country’s e-government system, in supporting a central bank digital currency. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080656804_0:0:3026:1703_1200x675_80_0_0_2076d883f9195d9d7d7a347bddab62af.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010031080656840-belgian-parliament-gives-support-to-new-coalition-government/ BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The Belgian parliament has given its support to a new federal government following three days of discussions, newly appointed Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Saturday. “We are facing serious challenges, but we have created a budgetary scheme that will allow us to take the necessary measures. The main priority is the fight against the […]
A man walks past a house destroyed by shelling during fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh in Agdam, Azerbaijan, on Oct. 1. The International Committee of the Red Cross says civilian deaths and injuries have been reported. Aziz Karimov/AP hide caption toggle caption Aziz Karimov/AP A man walks past a house destroyed by shelling during fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh in Agdam, Azerbaijan, on Oct. 1. The International Committee of the […]
Textron Systems, an aerospace and defense development and manufacturing unit of the Textron conglomerate, has been awarded a contract to support work on the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missile system. According to a company statement, this scope of work is part of a larger award by the U.S. Air Force to prime contractor Northrop Grumman. The GBSD system is designed to provide a modern, reliable and […]
VT reviews the facts, the video above a useful documentary formerly used by the DHS and supplied to states to use in training counter-terrorist police. The new DHS believes otherwise. Internal DHS talking points reveal law enforcement was ordered to make public comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse, the white supremacist who killed 2 people in Kenosha. Downplaying Terrorism: “He took his rifle to help defend small […]
During the presidential debate on Tuesday night, President Trump claimed the “Portland sheriff” supports him. Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images During the presidential debate on Tuesday night, President Trump claimed the “Portland sheriff” supports him. Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Trump claimed to have the backing of the “Portland sheriff” during Tuesday night’s debate with Democratic […]
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TASS, September 29. Turkey’s F-16 fighter shot down Armenia’s Sukhoi Su-25 from Azerbaijni territory, the Armenian Defense Ministry reported. The Turkish plane, while staying inside Azerbaijani airspace, was providing support for Azerbaijan’s forces on the ground delivering strikes against the Armenian city of Vardenis. .@ArmeniaMODTeam speaker says, #F16 jets belonging to #Turkey army, took off from #Azerbaijan air base in Gyanja, hit #Armenia Su25 jet. Armenian pilot was […]