The newest American aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has finally entered its first operational voyage. On October 4, the ship left Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, and set out for the Atlantic Ocean. The US Navy plans that the ship will conduct a series of exercises with both US forces and allied countries across the Atlantic, from Spain to Norway. Ford – the lead ship of the new carrier type to replace the Nimitz – faced numerous technical problems that made this memorable moment much later than expected. The aircraft carrier was launched almost exactly nine years ago…
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Until recently, the president of the Croatian Bar Association (HOK), Josip Šurjak, one of the five suspects in the robbery of INA in excess of HRK 1 billion, was released from pre-trial detention on Wednesday evening after all the witnesses were questioned, the court learned. At the end of September, the investigative judge of the Zagreb County Court extended Šurjak’s remand for 15 days due to the risk of influencing witnesses, but also the risk of repeating the crime, as the accounts in Hungary had not yet been blocked. For the same reasons, the detention of Šurjak’s business partner Goran…
In Latin it is called signum temporis – memes have become a full-fledged part of diplomatic games on Twitter. In this case, it started with a joke intended to counterbalance the Kremlin’s ‘referenda’ in the occupied Ukrainian territories. The joke was that the Kaliningrad Oblast was to be handed over to the Czech Republic or – in another version – divided between Poland and the Czech Republic, so that our southern neighbors would finally gain access to the sea. The joke began to live a life of its own, a Twitter profile of Královec, the “former Kaliningrad”, announced that 97.9%…
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On Wednesday, the Minister of Labor and Pension System, Marin Piletić, boasted about the growth of pensions six years ago, but also the fact that the ratio of the number of pensioners and insured persons in Croatia this fall is significantly more favorable than in previous years. On September 23, we had one million and 640 thousand insured persons, and the ratio of the number of pensioners to insured persons was one to 1.34, said the minister in the Croatian Parliament, to which he presented the final amendments to the Law on Pension Insurance. These changes, which bring two significant…
Today, Zamość has become the center of events concerning the future shape of the air defense of the Republic of Poland. Firstly: the PGZ-Narew consortium provided the Armed Forces with the first launchers and other components for the “small Narew” fire unit, a pilot project for the construction of a modern short-range system for the Narew program. Secondly, the PGZ-Pilica + consortium concluded a framework agreement in Zamość with the Armaments Agency of the Ministry of Defense for the supply of twenty-one Pilica + anti-aircraft missile and artillery systems. The ceremony of handing over the first components of the “Little…
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Ukrainian parliament member Andrii Osadchuk spoke on the N1 Studio show live about Russia’s position in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s war tactics. “Vladimir Putin he is in a very difficult situation because everything that happens after February 24 goes against his plans. “Last Friday, he became the first conqueror in the history of mankind to announce the invasion of territory, and in fact at the same time his troops were retreating with significant losses,” he said. She states that in the last month and a half Russian propaganda has changed her tone. First, as he says, they announced the conquest,…
US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall revealed another batch of information about the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter jet program in several statements last month. It turns out that, contrary to the words of Kendall himself, which we wrote about in June, the program has not yet entered the engineering and manufacturing development phase. However, the schedule remains extremely ambitious and provides for initial operational readiness to be achieved by 2030. For example, the B-21 Raider strategic bomber is in the EMD phase and its flight is expected next year. On average, in the US Air Force, about seven years…
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