After a 35-year break, the US Navy is building frigates again, and it has a lot of catching up to do

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USS Ingraham, the last Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate built for the US, returns from its last deployment in November 2014.

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Wagner chief said his troops are no longer withdrawing from Bakhmut after being promised as many artillery shells as they need

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Russian businessman and Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin at an economic forum in 2016.

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Germany is finally focusing on defending NATO, but its military 'lacks almost everything' it needs to do it, a former German general says

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A Bundeswehr NH90 helicopter is unloaded in Germany during redeployment from Afghanistan in May 2021.

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Ukraine launched more than 10 attack drones on Crimea in an overnight barrage, a Russian-installed official says

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A Russian flag waves beside the bay of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea on March 22, 2014.

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A new law allows Putin to draft Russians via an online portal — even if they don't have an account. It 'brings the digital Gulag much, much closer,' critics say

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A military cadet stands in front of a billboard promoting contract army service in Saint Petersburg on October 5, 2022. - Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on September 21 a mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of Russian men to bolster Moscow's army in Ukraine, sparking demonstrations and an exodus of men abroad.

No Bluesky invite? You're not alone: Biden can't get one either.

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Bluesky social app (left) and President Joe Biden (right).

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Ukraine has trained an army of 10,000 drone pilots ahead of anticipated counteroffensive, minister says

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Ukrainian servicemen fly a drone on the outskirts of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine on December 30, 2022.

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Ukraine says it used a US-made Patriot system to shot down a Russian hypersonic missile for the first time

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MiG-31BM supersonic interceptor equipped with a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missile underneath it.

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Leaked docs show 'Putin's chef' is increasingly at odds with the Russian leader over Wagner mercenary deaths

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Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right).

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Massive incendiary attack in Bakhmut shows Russia's 'scorched earth' tactics have turned the eastern Ukrainian city to rubble

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BAKHMUT, UKRAINE - JUL 24: A teacher walks through the rubble of a school bombed by the Russian army in Bakhmut, Ukraine, 24 July 2022. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A teacher walks through the rubble of a school bombed by the Russian army in Bakhmut, Ukraine, 24 July 2022.

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