Defense News Guru

10/05/2024

HARMs for Australia.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress last week that Australia intends to purchase up to 100 AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) for use on its fighter jets.

10/04/2024

Today's post.

General Dynamics nabbed the only contracts of any real size today.

10/04/2024

DNG is reluctantly joining the 21st century and starting a free newsletter. I'm sick of getting distribution throttled on FB and Twitter.

And because this post will itself be throttled if I include a link to the newsletter, I'll put that in the comments instead. See below.

09/09/2022

Russian lines north of Izyum are collapsing "even faster than Ukraine can advance."

09/08/2022

Bold response.

Albania and the US accuse Iran of hiring hackers to paralyse public services and steal state data.

08/24/2022

WaPo retrospective report on the Battle for Kyiv.

This account is based on interviews with more than 100 people, including President Volodymyr Zelensky and his advisers, Ukrainian military commanders, and volunteer militiamen.

02/06/2022

About da*n time.

Most of us, when we get hacked, will do the usual: Change our passwords, update our Norton AntiVirus, maybe call the IT guy at work and get some advice.

02/02/2022

Shades of pre-WWI Europe -- and pre-WWII as well.

Ukraine, Poland and Britain are looking to form a partnership to strengthen regional security. The buildup of tens of thousands of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border has prompted fears of an invasion.

01/14/2022

Russian FSB says it has taken down the REvil ransomware group at request of the DOJ.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/14/fsb-revil-ransomware/
https://twitter.com/i/status/1481980035535888384

The takedown was at the request of U.S. authorities, the Russian security service said.

01/06/2022

Good news: Russia hasn't invaded Ukraine yet.
Bad news: Russia's invading Kazakhstan instead.

Blaming "terrorists" for violent protests, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev "appealed to the heads of CSTO states," which also include Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.