From Raven to Coyote: How Many Military Drones Does the US Have?

Apart from surveillance missions, US drones are currently involved in implementing other tasks, including the destruction of enemy air defenses, as well as combat search and rescue.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the MQ-9 drone fell in the Black Sea as a result of engaging in sharp maneuvering and the Russian fighter jets sent to intercept the US unmanned aerial vehicle did not come into contact with it, nor did they used weapons against the drone. Now the question arises what the US drone did in the Black Sea and more generally, why are the UAVs being used by the US army?

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📊 What is known about the incident with the US drone above the Black Sea and the characteristics of the drone itself.

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📹 Giatsint guns in action as part of the special military operation (video by Russian MoD)

Giatsint-S 152mm self-propelled guns and Giatsint-B towed howitzers of the Central Military District destroy enemy military facilities, fortifications, and manpower during the special military operation.

During combat missions, the artillery operators strike at revealed artillery positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces far away from the line of contact, ammunition depots, fortified strongholds, and fixed fire points, as well as accumulations of the enemy troops. 152-mm high-explosive fragmentation shells are fired at a range of more than 30 km.

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🐱 This beautiful episode from the wild was filmed on March 13 the location being near Ullay - between Kargil and Leh in Ladakh, a village called Hemis Shupachen.
You can see how Shyapu (Ladakh Urial) tried to escape from the snow leopard

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'Taking Partnership to the Next Level': Metallica Acquire Vinyl Records Plant

Heavy metal band Metallica has moved to buy their own vinyl record manufacturing plant amid the growing demand for this particular type of recording medium.

The legendary band has acquired a majority interest in Furnace Record Pressing, one of the largest vinyl pressing companies in the United States – a company that has already produced over five million vinyl records for Metallica since 2014, as one US magazine pointed out.

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🔺 US combat drone detected off Russia’s coast over the Black Sea raised fears of military escalation between the nuclear powers
🔺Russia, China and Iran will conduct joint naval drills
🔺The two always go together: more banks may collapse, if the US Fed continues to raise interest rate

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Domino Effect? Credit Suisse Shares Plunge

Despite early assurances that the collapse of the California-based Silicon Valley Bank would be an isolated incident and not the start of a new financial crisis, confidence in financial institutions around the world has nonetheless been shaken and dozens of major banks have lost huge amounts of value in less than a week’s time.

Shares in the Zurich-based bank collapsed on Wednesday after Saudi National Bank, its chief investor, refused to provide it with financial assistance, setting off a wave of losses across the continent.

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