Russian occupation troops fired a rocket toward Kryvy Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Day: January 5, 2024
BREAKING:
Incoming reports of General Valery Gerasimov having been killed in Ukrainian missile strikes against Crimea yesterday.
Gerasimov is Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and Russia’s First Deputy Minister of Defence.
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<p class=”text-body text-muted small”>A news broadcast with file footage of North Korea’s artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on 5 January 2024. North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells near two South Korean islands that day, said the South Korean government. (Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images)</p>
<p>North Korea fired more than 200 artillery shells into waters near the Seoul-controlled Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands early on 5 January, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun disclosed in a statement to reporters on the same day.</p>
<p>All shells fired fell within the buffer zone on the northern side of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and the barrage of shells was fired between 0900 and 1100 h local time, the spokesperson added. There were no casualties or damages reported from the incident.</p>
<p>The JCS has described the firing as a provocation that heightens tensions and linked it to Pyongyang’s decision to withdraw from a September 2018 inter-Korean military agreement that effectively created a military exercise-free buffer zone that straddles both sides of the NLL.</p>
<p>South Korea’s military is working with their counterparts from the US to analyse the incident and will be undertaking measures in response to it, the JCS spokesperson added, without giving further details on these.</p>
<p>North Korea last carried out a similar firing of artillery shells in December 2022.</p>
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US confirms AH-6i sale to Thailand
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<p class=”text-body text-muted small”>Thailand’s earlier approval for the Boeing AH-6i light attack helicopter has now been firmed up into a confirmed sale. (Janes/Gareth Jennings)</p>
<p>The US Department of Defense (DoD) has confirmed the sale of eight Boeing AH-6i light attack and reconnaissance rotorcraft to Thailand, with a related contract notification posted in late December 2023.</p>
<p>With US State Department approval for the sale having been granted in September 2019, US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) disclosed that it is to award BAE Systems a contract to integrate the Advance Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) guided rockets that were included in the original US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notification.</p>
<p>The APKWS contract notification firms up the USD400 million deal for eight AH-6i Little Bird helicopters that will enable the Royal Thai Army (RTA) to retire its seven ageing Bell AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters.</p>
<p>Further to the impending NAVAIR contract for 200 APKWS rockets, the deal will include 50 Lockheed Martin AGM-114R Hellfire air-to-surface missiles, 10 Dillion M134 7.62 mm Miniguns, four General Dynamics GAU-19/B 12.7 mm Gatling guns, 500 70 mm Hydra rockets, 20 night-vision goggles, eight WESCAM MX-10Di electro-optic/infrared (EO/IR) cameras, as well as other equipment and support.</p>
<p>“As part of a broader military modernisation effort, these AH-6i helicopters will provide light attack reconnaissance for close air support to special operations forces, Stryker infantry soldiers, and border guard units,” the DSCA said in its original approval notification.</p>
<p>Thailand is the second customer for the AH-6i, with Saudi Arabia operating the type (designated AH-6SA in national service) in its national guard.</p>