The only big difference truthfully between the ukrainian army and the u.s. army is there is an emphasis in our army placed on aerial medevac and getting soldiers out of the battlefield on helicopter. and those helicopter medics are trained. they treat on the way back to the hospitals. ukraine doesn t have as many helicopters as we have certainly, so they re relying on the ground ambulance movement, which affects the golden hour, as you can imagine. sources have told cnn that ukrainian officials have lawmakers have tried to provide military with cluster munition war heads, weapons banned by more than 100 countries. i m wondering what your thoughts are on that. first you have to kind of describe what the munitions are. they are some type of either artillery shell, bomb delivered by an aircraft, or a missile that holds anywhere from 40 to sometimes close to over 1,000 of
Twice about coming to the aid of taiwan if china decides to invade. dana: the former national security council director for china last hour giving us the big picture on beijing s strategy after a new pentagon report warned it is accelerating an expansion of its nuclear arsenal. rich edson in washington with the details. china has more than 400 war heads and could have 1500 by 2035 according to a report the pentagon just released. it also says last year china launched about 135 ballistic missiles for testing and training. officials say it was more than the rest of the world combined. the more proliferation there is, the more concerning it is, the more destrap liesing to the region it is. certainly we would want to insure from a regional, global and stability standpoint that we can maintain an open dialogue.
Allot of attention recently. and essentially the drone works in conjunction with the shaw heads. it s part reconnaissance but can also carry up to four war heads. but what this military officer told us is they re anticipating the iranians are preparing to give the russians another new generation of drones, those capable of carrying five times the amounts of explosives of the shaw head 136 drones. that could be something that has a devastating impact on the battlefield. thank you so much for showing us that. it s really important to see. thank you for the report. so this morning, both parties looking at key races across the country, including in key swing states like michigan. but surging inflation and skyrocketing cost of living certainly at the forefront of the campaign discussion. jeff zeleny is live for us this
Belarus missiles able to carry war heads within months and days ago president zelenskyy said to his allies, we need heavy weaponry here and we need to speed up the timeline. how fast is fast enough? the faster is better because all time the free world is one step behind putin so putin is increasing pressure, free world is increasing weapons delivery but it will be much better if for the free world, the united states first of all would be one step ahead from putin that will finish this war as soon as possible and that is the best option for everybody. putin is declaring nuclear weapons. it means one thing to us that after russians defeat we need to raise the question of denuclearization of russia because the deal they never use
Reentry vehicles associated with it and depending on exactly how they cop fnfigure it, there cou be ten on board or up to 15 light mervs, a light reentry vehicle means there are multiple war heads on the missile and it can hit multiple targets. 15 targets can be hit from one missile. the other thing this missile has is it can be a launching pad for the hyper sonic missile so a missile within a missile basically and this is why putin made this very interesting statement today saying that this is a missile that everybody needs to be paying attention to and that it s dangerous and this is in essence their secret weapon. the reason for that is the hyper sonic glide vehicles that come out of this or that potentially come out of this can go very fast, can evade detection by standard missile detection systems and there is basically no defense against those at