An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded.

NASA insists it will be a near miss with no chance of the asteroid hitting Earth.

NASA said Wednesday that this newly discovered asteroid will zoom 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America. That's 10 times closer than the bevy of communication satellites circling overhead.

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New York Times: The United States will increase the production of artillery shells by six times for deliveries to Ukraine.
According to a high-ranking Pentagon official, they are mainly talking about 155-mm caliber shells, the most widely used by Ukraine. It is expected that in two years their production will increase to 90 thousand units per month from 14.4 thousand shells per month now.
This is the largest modernization of the US defense industry in the last 40 years.

WASHINGTON - The United States says that they will be making an announcement to send around 30 Abrams tanks to Ukraine as soon as Wednesday, but it could tank a few months to deliver the tanks.

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Germany Says It Won't Object if Poland Delivers Leopard 2 Tanks to Ukraine

Germany's foreign minister said Sunday that Berlin wouldn't object if Poland decides to send German-made tanks to Ukraine to aid it in its fight against Russian invaders. ...

But the Biden creature will no doubt slow-walk the delivery.

Israel submitted a formal request for F-15EX fighter jets from the US. Military planners want 25 new jets plus an upgrade for existing F-15I warplanes (source: N12 News)

The advanced jets can carry a heavy load of munitions and are crucial for bombing missions in Iran and elsewhere.

Israel will ask the Americans to speed up delivery, the report says.

Kremlin Threatens ‘Whole New Level’ of War Over Western Weapons

The promise of a new western arms delivery to Ukraine is not sitting well with Moscow.

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US, Germany Pressured to Send Tanks to Ukraine After Britain Breaks Taboo

Ukraine says the West must speed up the delivery of weapons as its troops come under increasing pressure from invading Russian forces, ahead of a key meeting of the Ukraine Défense Contact Group of NATO allies in Ramstein, Germany on Friday. ...

Russia Keeps Up Pressure In East As Ukraine Eyes More Advanced Weaponry

Russian forces kept focusing their offensive efforts on Bakhmut in the eastern region of Donetsk, Ukraine's military has said, as Kyiv again urged its Western allies to speed up approval for the delivery of advanced heavy weaponry including modern tanks. ...

Secretary Blinken made an interesting point: "The starting point of negotiations with Russia can only be the return of the situation to the 1991 borders, the withdrawal of Russian troops, the payment of reparations, and the return of Russia to the restrictive nuclear weapons treaties."

The last point is not very clear. Apparently, the Americans want to return Russia to a new version of the Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missile Treaty. But most importantly, the Americans probably want to control the management of Russian tactical nuclear weapons as well as the development and delivery of new equipment like Poseidon and Burevestnik on their own terms.