whether it's a self-defense or air defense, region defense or regional defense is complex and hard. fundamentally it is about detect, control and engage. your ability to see and since the balance space. at the lose control and understand with the threads k secret but a weapon on it. so it's kind of an old launch minister you state that is applicable across all our systems. next chart please. so this is the mission and it's been unchanged. many sought in the transition side. it's because it's a fundamentally true, right? i can take that mission statement was working in defense back in t navy and apply that to my problem set on a destroyer or cruiser. you want layered defense. what does it mean? that is expanding the battle space. that means taking more than one shot at a threat not waiting for inal, which is the hardest, dirtiest confinement to engage. added factual likely end up with debris coming on a ship killing sailors. if you wait that long that's what happens. that's the reason why they may have rolling air missile, they may have sm two, s and six for the long fight, as in sur

iran has an important theory called the defense dome, but the defense dome has many needs that can onlymet by the shalamcheh system. it requires special radars that can against electronic warfare, big powers should sell something in american defense systems , but this is a big claim, the flight altitude of american fighters is high and they cannot be detected with ordinary radars . we will act in such a way that the potential threats that exist in iran do not become better . we will not allow the diversity of defense systems , radar systems , missile systems, and hurricane systems. may iran say hello to the 1990s, and the country will step into a new era, an era in which the turmoil of sanctions will reach its peak, and most of the military issues are economic issues that will attract attention in 1392 , according to the proposal of the united nations security council. the us and its western allies are sanctioned by one of the branches of this arms embargo, which means that iran will soon face an important challenge regarding one of its purchases, the s-300. iran has long been pursuing

the prime minister noted that he decided to leave differences with the head of the defense in the pastt me remind you that for the 14th week in a row, actions against the judicial reform, in which tens of thousands of people participate, have connected lviv and kramatorsk launched a railway connection between the two cities, the first flights left completely full , they told ukrzaliznytsia at the lviv railway station, our film crew met the passengers, natalia and her son oleksandr are from sviatohirsk, which is not donetsk region, their hometown was almost destroyed due to rocket attacks by the russian occupiers, there was no light, they lived there don't go and they destroyed the city natalya and her child decided to evacuate to a safer city on the flight kramatorsk lviv the family settled in slovyansk 20 hours on the road flashes imperceptibly shares impressions with women modern and the most convenient soft and i am glad that not only for us but also for the armed forces of ukraine every train from pro-front areas at the station is met by volunteers they help newly arrived passenger

guest: defense companies are making a lot of money. mentioned saudi arabia -- part of the reason saudi arabia has managed to establish this extraordinarily powerful position in international politics is that it has bought not just in recent years, but over many years, a lot of defense equipment from western arms manufacturers, from many kinds of manufacturers, even though it didn't need that weaponry because defense companies, especially in the west, western countries and western governments, as they reduced defense spending, defense companies were desperate to sell weaponry. saudi arabia bought a lot of it. which of course made it very popular with western governments. so the challenge with defense companies or arms manufacturers is that they make products that only governments can buy. so they are very dependent on whether governments are able to buy defense equipment, weapons at any given time. they can't turn to the general public and expand clientele. that does not work. so they go from rags to riches, really extreme, but rags to

deputy minister of defense laura cooper, who answers ukraine's own question and our own defense e-e says she speaks of ukraine and the new have you united. we must be united with our partners, especially at a time when the aggressor is fighting not only on the battlefield, he is also fighting an informational war. for this purpose, in order to be united with our partners, we, as a delegation of a special commission, came to washington to meet here with our colleagues from the congress from different parties, both with democrats and republicans, to actually first of all talk about the fact that we are ready to report for every dollar that the taxpayers of america contribute to the victory of ukraine. this is very it is very important today, and first of all it should be said that this war actually somewhat more definitely unites all of us and you and i should understand that communication and explanation of the situation is very, very important and we should emphasize both to our partners and in everything, however, that everything that it is allocated by our partners, especially the unit

regarding our air defense, this is the greatest danger right now.is not that we do not have planes, but that russia has them and that our air defense system may be exhausted and if it turns out that we do not have enough complexes to fight the enemy's attacks, this can lead to two consequences: firstly, the ukrainian armories will simply be destroyed during this confrontation without any infantry, without any meetings, simply by the russian boarders, all their positions will be destroyed and no one will be able to give this by the way, during the second world war, when the aviation had the opportunity to operate, it destroyed the enemy's manpower and, of course , that is why the army needs to be a reliable cover, and the second is the artist of the city, because it seems to many of our compatriots that they have already experienced the most terrible ordeals in their lives, when there were massive rocket attacks by the tsar, this is not the most terrible moment in their lives. defense of the city well, of course, to a certain extent, this also applie

defense.cow began with the laying of a wreath at the grave of the unknown soldier near the kremlin wall, the head of the prc defense department honored the memory of the fallen with a minute of silence. main part of the visit negotiations with the russian colleague meeting in the main building of the ministry of defense on sofiyskaya embankment america national control center c how the russian of the people's republic of china rotan of the honorary rabbit meets venice visits of this level are not a frequent phenomenon here, the ministers welcome the guard of honor, then they introduce members of the delegations consisting of the heads of the departments of the defense departments of the two countries and responsible for the commercial part of military cooperation. negotiation. shoigu begins by congratulating or shanfu on his recent appointment to the position of choosing russia as the first country for an official visit. the minister speaks a lot, emphasizes his respect , reinforces the greeti

this is an extremely primitive form of defense, but it is also necessary .nywhere yet, but ideally we should bet on mobile mortar complexes with digital combat control. in a little bit of business, it weighs 200 kg , and service numbers. in many units, there are 6 people, 3 people, and people simply cannot physically even disassemble this mortar. and you yourself understand that when digit digit well, aim, then you have 30-40 seconds for everything, that is, a modern language . by the way, swedish is an analogue of the archer , which we now receive a howitzer. well, they fired at, well, in the range from zero to 14 km, where the mobile tent works, and so we must urgently close this coast, but ordinary stationary mortars are also needed without them, well , it is impossible to go anywhere for the time being, despite the fact that they not mobile and as for the snarls, your experience of combat use of the same nona in combat showed that, as i understand it, it was actually on a heavy-duty chassis. now we get cancer on the basis of a-a armored personnel carrier

maneuver to enable ukraine's ongoing fight. air defense, munitions, in defense capabilities tank, munitions, armored vehicle capabilities, artillery ammunition, artillery tubes, and rockets and spare parts remain critical as ukraine protected cities and expels the russian menace from its territory or countries in the countries of europe. a pledge the ukraine will have the capabilities, it needs execute, emissions on their own timeline, and we have pledged that support for as long as it takes us. the secretary just said this week, united states announced our latest security assistance package as part of our ongoing commitment to ukraine as we standard at 80 ukrainian military continues to perform very well, intent, fighting around bach, mac continues and has for several months. russia is expanding significant manpower for very little gain. russia is intensifying, indiscriminate shelling in a vicar and other cities and urban areas. and russia continues to pay severely for its war of choice on like ukrainian forces who are highly motivated to fight for their country to fight for their freedom,

the defense department as well as the united states defense industry and agencies should develop asymmetric capabilities. the joint concept for competing provides a valuable framework for approaching this challenge. we will continue to prepare our military to be ready to fight and win in an armed conflict but a war with china could be devastating for both our nations and the world and winning could be a phyrric victory. the paradigm change should push defense leaders to pursue every opportunity to advance national interest including through smart investments in infrastructure and technology. critical to this effort will be our ability to build jewishness -- and joint in this -- to build jointness throughout the force. i am encouraged by the department's efforts -- which would be a force multiplier in this regard. jabc2 would enable a force to act on information. the battle will bash the concept will help our forces acquired targets as early as possible and rapidly deliver information to the best shooter. if we master these techniques, we must quickly include allies and partners in the syste

based mid course defense. it is about defense of united states against strategic meaning, intercontinental ballistic missiles coming from the so called rogue states like dpr, k, iran, libby at that time, iraq and not to me. they didn't mention china, russia, but these are the threats that they were home during, in building what's called a hit appeal system into countries. and that was the basic building block of reagan style. i said at the start of the show that you elected in the 1900 eighty's to go through your chain of command to report your concerns that got you nowhere. but it made you a whistleblower. you continued that whistle blowing on capitol hill while working with 2 of the most important members of congress. but a major revelation that you made came even later when you were working as a senior analyst for the government accountability office or ga. oh, for those of our viewers who don't know what the j o is, it's supposed to be the all tra, ethical, governmental entity that ensures the highest ethi

, reduce defense spending there and defense companies were desperate to sell weaponry . and saudi arabia bought a lot of it, which of course, and made it very popular with western governments. so the challenge with defense companies are arms manufacturers, is that they make products that only governments can buy. so they are very dependent on where the governments are in the mood to buy defense equipment. i weapons of any given time they content, the general public can say, well we'll expand our clients and that doesn't work. and so they, they go from, from rags to riches or not, not so is, so is so really extreme as has to be ranked, but it rags to riches. it asked the fortunes of the world backs and wayne. and so what we have now is lots of west, the government catching up with spending, but then facing the issue that the army makers don't have enough for the space in the order books to accommodate all these weapons that. now, lesson governments and i needed many kinds of governments now want to buy, told me to la, it's an interesting thing is that because once one cou

including fury and valkyries were overpaid russian air defense systems today is the day of the air defense as at any other time our anti-aircraft gunners are on alert in the special operation zone. they beat off thousands of air attacks every day. the era of high technology dictates new rules of work. detect not only a rocket, but also a bird, as the military calls drones, any device, even the smallest one, flying at an ultra - low altitude. man's steps. in general , technology is on the verge of fantasy about the work of air defense in in the special operation zone, not only a report by aleksey kruchinin, the best long -range air defense system s-400 in the special operation zone is shown to journalists extremely rarely, the more expensive these shots are scary to think. how many ukrainian missiles would have reached our military and civilians of donbass if it were not for the chiki, this s-400 complex is designed to destroy all types of airborne weapons, as well as ballistic missiles of any class, we are working. we just destroy the cameras. and also alder point work around the clock in

organization of territorial defense. here, uh, starting from the 2000s , a really large period of time has passed, all issues of organizing planning for the use of improving territorial defense have been worked out. we have taken a step forward, and neighboring countries have gone far ahead along this path. the same poland, the same countries. the same baltic countries realized that territorial defense is really a necessary element of state defense, ukraine. but unfortunately, ukraine today has territorial defense a few, probably, perverted and the units of the territorial defense today have been turned. nationalist formations are not for the protection of their population, but for looting robbery. alexandra volfovich also noted such a new element as the people's militia. it is formed from among the volunteers of the inhabitants of a particular locality, who will help local law enforcement officers ensure security. they will solve the tasks of martial law combating sabotage reconnaissance groups. kyiv this year increases

thorough and the department of defense, they are madly like that.ould like to ask, and although on this trip the president's defense minister did not accompany the participation in the meeting, the top leadership of the army. nevertheless, it was hardly advisable for the supreme commander and the minister of defense. nhs gathered in one place. of course, this is a big risk, but nevertheless , the minister took part in the meeting via videoconference, the puck of defense, and the actions of the enemy of the president are informed even on the breeze in another headquarters building , the head of state gives the command of the group, dnipro, an orthodox icon. vladimir putin carefully opens the doors of the gilded icon case and inside it is the face of the savior, an icon with history. which host who was one of the successful and places defense of russia in the nineteenth year we are talking about minister of war peter ivanovsky, a native of kiev, he headed the department in the reign of alexander iii, who was nicknamed a peacemaker because the country

have the national security strategy, flow down to the natial defense strategy and defense planning guidancebut that is classified. then it is somewhat unclear what government is saying we are going to buy and not by. -- buy. then when we have the budget cycles of one year budgets, you have planning, programming and budget executi cycle that has to start before that. it introduces a lot of chart. if you own a business, whether it is privately or publicly held, you need a clear demand signal over multiple years to allow you to invest discretionary funds in capital equipment tooling to drive the capacity and capabili. however, we in the u.s. have gotten away from funding any surge capacity whatsoever. even before russia invaded ukraine, we had some challenges in terms of deploying all the different types of systems and making trade-offs and what would be used. now has gotten more difficult. i go back to this focus, focus, focus. we need to pick a couple of things and have a clear demand signal and get the contracts flowing. doing research engineering does not build capability and capacity. put

as for the line of defense - this is a deep and echeloned line of defense along the entire length ofit consists of several lines of defense in case of a possible enemy counter-offensive. and what else is important now, the kiev regime for a few months of valuable and-a huge losses. i already talked about this when the unusual mobilized. it's just that a-a are burned at the forefront in order to be able to form a combat-ready reserve. in just a few months, the enemy was able to form a fairly large number of new formations and equip them with equipment. these connections are not 100% complete. despite, of course, the huge replenishment of the countries of the north atlantic alliance , in fact, all new formations are equipped with western military equipment and weapons systems. these are artillery, tanks , reconnaissance equipment, and these are tracked armor, and vehicles are wheeled armored vehicles. and, of course, these are light pickups with installed ones. ah, heavy machine guns or grenade launchers, uh, which are used for the rapid transfer of mobile reserves of small groups. act

. >> we will run a new defense posture in europe.fter that service shares a stay the same. we will win a big counterinsurgency campaign in iraq and somehow miraculously the air force and navy come out ok. a lot of people would say this is the pathology of goldwater nichols. join us in fighting wars is great. but, joint s in budgeting for awards is bad because you get a long coalition where the services and in the combatant commands, another bugbear of years, fair to say, do not fight over budgetary shares. do you have a story where -- is that a part of the problem, in your view? how do we undo that problem? >> that's a huge question about transformation and innovation. number one, the geographic combat commanders, there are five of them. the world is split up in five regions. brilliant. colin powell, all of those invented -- they put the structure in place. we were in an interwar time. nothing much was going on. let's be honest. so, it was the right construct at the time. one was goldwater nichols? >> 87, 88. >> so, that is exactly w

they are preparing for defense.s, please, with your help, estimate the defense potential of our adversary . how much have they dug in there ? ukraine, however, well, it seems to me that the most active work began after the kharkiv offensive of our armed forces, which showed that uh, on the unequipped, well , the equipped engineering ones are not equipped enough with the engineering section of the front, we are able to knock it down powerfully, so in the south and in the east, in those areas where the enemy is holding defenses , they are trying, first of all, to change the territory to the operational depth of the engineering area , to equip it in several lines of defense, that is , not only the first line, there are reserves and reserves through a few kilometers tens of kilometers along the 2-3 line of defense, well, this is our own classic, and well, what can have the most negative impact on our offensive, this is definitely the mining of the territory , it makes it difficult, it makes driving much more difficult o

takhar air defense, which during these years has been able to pass the edge of defense-related technologies , once it was a dream to see radar-evading planes , once it was a dream to see planes with a low radar cross-section with arc skim. targeting some planes for the reasons of superior technology and the fact that the weapon system manufacturing technology was in the hands of superior countries was a wish, but the times for the absolute power of the sky are still turning on the wheel of bitter events, where the nesquik company is a factory that manufactures billion dollar airplanes. it is night, they are competing with the flour of the x-47 plane and now they are messing with the highest flying bird in the world, the american sous, this bird is also loved by pakistanis, but iran will soon disrupt the game for this work as well as for the factory. arkio messed up the global hawk or the global hawk is an eye that looks at the earth from a height twice as high as other birds. if you look carefully, this might be the most important part of this bird. he called it the radar. the star is the w

, yes, they have built many lines of defense there now, one line of defense, the second line of defensekmak. in general, they surrounded it with tsimalkops and took it in such an environment on their own ah, but eh, of course, all this can somehow impress, but all this also has a countermeasure, there are elements that can very effectively counteract these lines of defense and when one such line of defense begins to collapse and at the same time, there is not enough material and technical the provision is actually destroyed immediately and the second one and the cascade effect begins. and when the cascade effect begins, under the pressure of the offensive forces, those who are retreating do not have time to occupy new positions in order to adequately defend them and oppose this offensive and are forced to retreat further, that is, a cascade effect that destroys the entire defense in fact, in the region on the bridgehead and uh, a very similar option. we saw it in the kharkiv region when, precisely because of the cascade, they did not have time to take up defense in new positions and you

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>> we conduct global operations at the department of defense. intelligence, products, informational products are shared with dod leaders and personnel globally throughout the world, whether it is a component command, in the services. th importante thing to understand about classified information, it's not just, i want to have access to it because i have clearance, it's based on need to know. that typically will grant you access if you have the appropriate clearances. >> thank you. >> thanks, pat. i'm confused on the access issue. you said there were changes that were made, but you also said you are reviewing things? can you tell us where are -- are there less peaceful -- bless people who have access to this information today -- are there less people who have accessz to this information today? >> i will not get down to numbers. reviewing lists, looking at who has a need to know, making sure that things are updated. doing due diligence on these disclosures. again, i want to emphasize that this was a deliberate, criminal act, to violate those guide

this is an extremely important strengthening of our air defense. so far, these are two batteries.ast 20 batteries , this is extremely large number, we will see if there will be an addition to these of our batteries from another one on rammstein, where ukraine will also raise the issue of strengthening our air defense, and then in the military column, we will talk about the situation on the fronts of the main bakhmut through the eyes of our military and also about whether the ministry of defense of ukraine has drawn conclusions since poor -quality body armor was purchased for soldiers of the armed forces of ukraine . about that in a moment. so, first we will talk about bakhmut . 6 km the defenders of which have already become heroes in view of the loads they are enduring under the russian onslaught, the enemy is now actively using powerful artillery and aviation to completely wipe out all buildings or structures where you can hold the defense that takes place in bakhmut, i will talk to a soldier who owns a phrase that conceptually i really like the fact that with russia it is not a

just a prob along the entire a line of defense and, and see you were russian defenses are shaky and then try to break through there. so we, we don't quite know what we know and what is the most important factor here is that the ukranian armed forces are capable of staging such a counter attack, which would require leadership and skill technology aside. ukraine has received a lot of technology in including tanks, including armored vehicles, however, conducting combined arms operation, namely using tanks, mechanized infantry, electronic warfare, and close air support. it requires a lot of practice and coordination. so a lot will depend on how well the ukrainian army can master combined arms operations in terms of the success of the spring offensive. just a final question about electricity. ukraine says it will resume exporting electricity for the 1st time after months of russian attacks on its power grid. what kind of a victory does that represent? well, there are many ways to look at this. you know, in russia was striking the power grid to coerce the citizens to basically put pressure on

today, it is one individual defense of ukraine with the support of allies or partners , it is absolutely not enough. what sweden did in finland, they immediately received a guarantee from the nuclear power of great britain. these are guarantees on this way of signing an agreement with a nuclear power member of nato, it could be britain, better the united states, it would be a real guarantee on this way , they started p valerian thank you very much for joining the broadcast valeriy chaly , ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine to the united states in the years 15-19, he was in direct contact with us, thank you. well, as promised, the story from my colleague max grabovsky about the meeting between president volodymyr zelenskyi and nato secretary general jens soltonberg, nato secretary general jens stoltenberg on on mykhailivska square inspects the russian equipment destroyed by the armed forces of ukraine and honors the memory of the fallen soldiers near the memorial wall, already the shots near the president's office where the nato delegation left correctly after the wel

as you saw and the second copy of ivan a was such a defense minister, vanovsky defense, under whom veryctive formation and development of our armed forces took place . this icon was just donated. here alexander lukashenko met today in minsk with the acting head of the dpr denis pushilin, the president of belarus asked him about the situation in the republic, in particular in donetsk , he did not offer assistance in restoring the regions in this situation, what belarus can do for donetsk, how can we help? a lot of work ahead needs to be restored . well, in the end, people will live there 100% and feed people are married, so we are ready to provide appropriate support so that people who are not strangers to us there finally stop suffering. zemsky doctor program zemsky paramedics are starting to work in new russian regions , minister of health mikhail murashka said today he visited the donetsk republic with a working visit, the minister, examined more than ten between institutions, where he met with doctors and patients. we note that today funds for drug provision have been approved in the

are there any relations with the ministry of defense now?, more adequate interaction with our military, communication with the customer, as we call transcarpathian defense, has become much easier, and there is a lot of special things there during the march-april period. in bureaucratic wars and uh, here the issue is just uh, the complication of the processes of the cabinet of ministers is adopted there , mutually exclusive resolutions uh are prioritized , for example, some manufacturers uh, without giving sufficient weight to other manufacturers, this is what i have on i mean the example of the purchase now through the state special forces of unmanned complexes, where the manufacturers of the equipment have the right to invest 25% of the profit in the cost of the complex , while all other manufacturers of weapons of military equipment can only invest 1% of the purchased components and 30% for own works. therefore, this is such a discrediting sign. yes, for example, in the current legislation , besides that, it cannot be said that the admissi

i am the director of the defense express information consulting company, which together with espressochannels strives to highlight the most relevant events and trends in the life of the defense-industrial complex and the life of our army. so, now in sweden, yuriy voytenko is joining us . he is the founder and head of the wireless pp-technology company, mr. yuriy. i congratulate you. your company has been working in sweden for a long time and i will explain to our viewers that you are actually a ukrainian, your company skazhem was founded by ukrainians, and you created products that are used today in the armed forces of sweden and in nato countries, and when the last time we we talked to you, we wanted to talk in more detail about exactly how and in what way sweden moved to create such a unique defense-industrial complex that relies primarily on its own forces and capabilities, by the way, there was such a recent report from that ukrainian research institute to the world, where was it said that there was a sharp increase in defense spending in the world? and by the way, it increased by

this is the case when air defense can be counter.try station gives the operator signals about vehicles, boats, in general, any moving objects. the device also reacts sensitively to the movement of people. even if at first the camera does not see me, the steps are already clearly audible. here they are loud accordingly, the operator is ready for the fact that after a short time a person will appear in the visibility zone in the future , a mobile locator can also serve civilian purposes to protect important objects of buildings and roads, but so far the whole variety of air defense systems is in demand in the special operation zone, where our guys daily beat off a thousand attacks from the sky alexei kruchinin mikhail fedorov alexander dudin alexei ivanov valentin stukanov ekaterina koryaka. and konstantin zhukovsky channel one. the fbi has already reached the point where it is trying to directly recruit russians through social networks, that is, no complicated approaches, hints of conversations without witnesses, just come to the offi

so first above all, air defense and air defense are important. it can be carried out both from ground systems and from aircraft, now the main attention is paid to ground systems , several aircraft from poland and slovakia have not been received, and i believe that it is necessary to constantly evaluate and discuss the issue of new systems, including aircraft but i believe that the most important thing is to ensure that all systems that are already in ukraine work properly, which means that we need a huge amount of ammunition and spare parts of technical maintenance of repair facilities to ensure that thousands of systems, including many air defense systems, work as they should, so i believe that maintaining the systems already provided is just as important. perhaps even more important than discussing new systems. how long do you think russia will be able to wage war against ukraine? i will not speculate. about this because war or wars are by their nature unpredictable and we should never judge the russians they have proven that they want to take

good afternoon, director of the information and consulting company defense express, mr.you taxi viewers, well, the day before bakhmut was visited by the commander of special operations forces, brigadier general viktor khorenko. he called the situation in the city difficult, but said that the work of special forces proves the superiority of quality over quantity, and a direct quote, the situation in bakhmut is indeed difficult, the general said, but who else do you know what should be done and how to act in the current conditions, addressing your subordinates, your work here once again proves that the ss is primarily an advantage of quality over quantity, viktor khorenko told the soldiers that now there is something going on in bakhmut, and to what extent the work of the ukrainian special operations forces is active there, i’m asking sergey, when we talk about bakhmut, the last few days, the amount of information coming out of the city is less, this is probably related to the information policy that our general headquarters and we really now focus primarily on the stateme

nataliya gumenyuk, the head of the joint coordination press center of the forces of defense and protection of the south, was in touch with us prime minister of ukraine denys myhal went on an official visit to the united states, in particular, he met with the secretary of defense of the united states and the head of the ministry of finance, what kind of help he asked for, my colleague voice of america correspondent iryna shynkarenko lida will tell you in the pentagon. this is his second meeting in the pentagon with by the us minister of defense, lloyd austin, was held for the first time a year ago at the beginning of a full-scale war in ukraine, so lloyd austin recalled the successes of the ukrainian army during that time, in particular. providing the usa with hi-mars aris systems and other types of weapons and emphasized that the pentagon is satisfied with how these weapons fall into the hands of ukrainian defenders, that is, they are satisfied with the transparency the use of american aid lloyd austin assured that he will continue to convene a group in the rammstein format and will contin

. >> up next trump administration , former acting defense secretary chris miller talks about the defense budget and military strategy in the u.s. and ukraine. hosted by the cato institute, it is about one hour. >> my name is justin logan, the director of defense and foreign policy studies here at cato. i want to thank the conference department and the tech and a/v folks that i always drive crazy with harebrained requests about how to run these things and i want to welcome those watching on c-span today. to the extent anyone knows me in washington i have a reputation as a little bit of a hater. i have written my fair share of negative book reviews. i saw an interview with former secretary mentor about his proposals for cutting the defense budget significantly and transforming american strategy. i found out he had written a memoir. i thought to myself, it will be good if i read the memoir and i remind myself what reading former officials memoirs is like. i thought, please do not subject me to this. i never thought i would find myself gushing about a former government officials memoir. but

an educator stand, no russia's defense minister also made a point. the regional powers have a lot to gain from that corporation in military sphere and particularly singled out a couple of trajectories that can take, for example, the exchange of military information joined exercises, both as a way of increasing mutual trust and as a way of increasing combat readiness and tactical, tactical preparedness, he also said that russia could share its expertise on how to produce all parade to defend against the use of drones. this is a particular theme emerging out of the ukrainian conflict. the worth of priority that versus defense minister mentioned is conflict resolution. now that's one in particular is obviously very pressing for russia, reaches engaged, involved in confrontation in your brain. and it's also something that both india and china are looking at with great interest, as you perhaps know, china has been pretty successful in bringing together our tribals, like saudi arabia in iran, india, as a, as a former member of knowing the line moment. and

and defense ecosystem. how do we go about including allies and partners in capability development and together? it has been fantastic to see. what are your thoughts on that? whitney: this was a part of the fine print in the recommendation. can we be sourcing trusted partners, microchips -- parts, microchips, from allies that we can leverage as well? we should look at this more holistically. because of that is in the spirit of not finding ourselves not finding ourselves in where you need another and president built to guess something we wander into not realizing. this a good example of how the policy struggles to keep up with the technology. particularly, for things like biotechnology and quantum. capital intensive technologies. they want to work with international partners. it is unclear in terms of what technology you are allowed to work with. i do think it is another major challenge. how can a policy keep up with the pace of commercial technology? so we can be better harnessing allies. peter: we discuss i

the defense appropriations bill and i included language in the department of defense issued a report outlining department increase and sourcing of plastic and plastic alternatives. secretary austin give an update on the status of this report and expectation when this report will be made available to congress? >> i'm sorry sir. >> and increased from the production of domestic source of the plastic or plastic alternatives for the defense industry? stimac i will take that question for the record and get back to you. i'd like to tell you some of the things that we are doing along the lines of strengthening our supply chains and making sure we have capability because i absolutely agree with you. this needs to be a whole of government effort. i want to thank you and the rest of congress for what you've done in support of the chips act. i think that will make a really big difference in this budget we are asking you for $2.6 billion to invest in microelectronics. we are investing $125 million in batteries and electronics and we are going after critical minerals and i've asked for $253 millio

industry and the defense industry.st unrealistic to deploy tomorrow . well, it’s just unrealistic, so there’s no doubt that these two worlds intersect, they know quite well that what opportunities each side has, which i don’t know. there are some details, but i can say that in principle there is an interest in certain cooperation . i am sure there is. will transfer to ukraine technological samples of weapons such as archer self-propelled guns because this is a really unique sample and the potential of this weapon without a single information network with data collection is used. archers in ukraine, is it about the fact that in sweden they understand that ukraine can grow up to create such a network of centric e-e visions of conducting hostilities, and this and the same archer will be the first such e-e element before the u in the ukrainian military looks at it differently to the future battlefield. i think that the archer was handed over not just because it was basically a political decision, although it is definitely

of efforts for the defense of bakhmut.o, i quote deputy defense minister hannomalyar, the solution lies in the face of a comprehensive she wrote the analysis and calculations of the likely development of the situation . the operational situation on the spot is monitored and reported to the headquarters 24/7 continuously analyze the actions of the enemy and the dynamics of changes in the situation according to many criteria, guided by the received data , the headquarters predict probable threats and actions from the enemy, operational information and done-analysts directly report to the command of the operational strategic grouping of khortyts troops. situation about the dose of enemy widows and assessments of our capabilities, makes operational decisions and formulates tasks by the unit, i.e. when you hear in summary, the situation is under control and it is under control, deputy minister of defense hanna melnyk stressed. meanwhile, there is excellent news that ukrainian weapons are being actively produced so that the arme