Day: March 13, 2024

The head of the Central Intelligence Agency warned separately of the price of inaction. … And we’re running out of time to help them,” CIA Director …

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, Ukrainian defenders have eliminated about 426,870 Russian invaders.

A rescue and search operation has been completed in Myrnohrad, Donetsk region. At night, Russians launched a missile attack on the city, hitting a multi-story building.

Biden govt bypasses Congress to approve weapons for Ukraine  DAWN.com

The enemy is attacking Ukrainian positions at the Avdiivka, Novopavlivka, Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Orikhiv and Kherson directions.

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<p class=”text-body text-muted small”>The US Navy is seeking more money for Tomahawk missiles and systems. (Raytheon)</p>
<p>The fiscal year (FY) 2025 US Navy (USN) budget request includes USD6.6 billion for weapons procurement, according to budget documents released on 11 March.</p>
<p>This request is a slight decrease from the USD6.9 billion requested in FY 2024, budget documents show.</p>
<p>The USN is seeking to buy 2,656 weapons in FY 2025, compared with the 2,773 weapons the service sought to buy in FY 2024.</p>
<p>“The [FY 2025] focus is to continue to build up critical munitions inventories while increasing line capacity through facilitisation,” the USN said in budget proposal documentation.</p>
<p>“By partnering with industry in weapons procurement, we are able to increase capacity of critical munitions, allowing the DoN [Department of the Navy] to meet inventory requirements on a more efficient timeline,” the USN said. “This delivers critical capabilities to maintain our warfighting advantage.”</p>
<p>The FY 2025 request includes ship weapons procurement of the following: 252 Tomahawk recertification kits; 111 Tomahawk navigation and communications kits; 32 Maritime Strike Tomahawk kits; 221 Tactical Tomahawk Military Code; five Tactical Tomahawk Joint Multiple Effects Warhead Systems; 125 Standard Missile-6s; 148 Rolling Airframe Missiles; 369 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles; 79 MK 48 Advanced Capability heavyweight torpedoes; 51 MK 54 Mod 1 anti-submarine torpedo kits; 12 Naval Strike Missiles; and 12 Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Surface-to-Surface Missile Modules.</p>
<p>The USN is using LCSs for novel missile deployments.</p>
<p><em>For more information about these operations, please see</em>LCS Savannah fires SM-6 missile using containerised launching system

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William Burns, US CIA Director acknowledges, that with Israel blocking & obstructing food & humanitarian aid, the result is the growing famine in #Gaza. It is intentional, deliberate & planned as “collective punishment.”

— John Fitzpatrick (@johnfitz2304) March 13, 2024

Loop Secures $6 Million in Seed Funding for Its Automated Delivery Intelligence Platform for Restaurants |  Restaurant Technology News

US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access  Orlando Sentinel