Sunday, February 11, 2024

Russia Launches Dozens of Drone Strikes in Five Hour Barrage on Ukraine

"Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage.....The five-and-a-half-hour attack targeted agricultural facilities and coastal infrastructure." Breitbart

Hamas official survives Israeli attack that kills two others in Lebanon

"An Israeli drone raid that hit a car 35km (22 miles) from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has killed at least two people, but a Hamas official who was the target survived the attack, security sources told Al Jazeera.
Two missiles fired by an Israeli drone hit the Hamas official’s vehicle in the coastal town of Jadra on Saturday and two bystanders were killed in the attack, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reported from Beirut." MS

Russian military increasingly deploys Starlink terminals to frontline positions in Ukraine

"The Russian military is reportedly increasingly using Starlink terminals at their positions in Ukraine, purchasing them through third countries, Ukrainian military news outlet Militarnyi reported on Feb. 10, citing Kyiv-based engineer Oleh Kutkov, engaged in Starlink terminals for the Ukrainian military. "In fact, the Russians have begun to actively use terminals on the front line," he said." NV

Israeli military says Hamas command post found in tunnel under UN office

"One of the Hamas command posts was located in a tunnel under the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). UNRWA Headquarters is in Gaza City, among northern areas that Israeli troops and tanks overran early in the four-month war against the governing Islamist faction Hamas, which forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee south." Pravada

Russia Inadvertently Shoots Down $2 Bln US Army Scout Copter Program

"The US Army is terminating its $7 billion Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) after spending at least $2 billion on the project.
The decision, announced by acquisition officials this week as part of a broad overhaul of purchasing priorities, comes over five years after the FARA program’s approval as a prospective armed scout helicopter design meant to plug a gap in the Army’s aviation branch’s capabilities.
The Army slashed FARA, pouring money into the latest variant of the Black Hawk, the CH-47F Block II Chinook transport, as well as programs to improve its drone reconnaissance capability, with Army Chief of Staff Randy George saying the shakeup was the result of observations in the field of
NATO’s ongoing proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, which he implied had effectively shown manned reconnaissance to be obsolete." Sputnik