Through the green haze of a drone’s camera, a fiberglass skiff skims across black water before erupting in fire.The Trump administration portrays the recent spate of airstrikes against what it calls “narco-terrorists” as victories in a renewed “war on drugs.” Yet, such a war has always been a misnomer. Steady demand ensures steady supply. Criminals find ways to adapt to interdiction methods. In reality, the strikes do little to reduce the flow of cocaine or fentanyl into the United States.Attacking go-fast drug boats is not a strategy, it is spectacle imbued with multiple meanings.
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Ukrainian sources have reported that the country’s tank battalions are suffering from very low availability of armour, due to both heavy losses that cannot be replenished, and due to difficulties sustaining those vehicles that are in service. “They’re seen as the last argument of kings on the battlefield,” noted Ukrainain armoured warfare specialist Mykola Salamakha, adding that poor use of the vehicles, including for operations focused on boosting morale, has been an important contributor to losses.
In the months before the spooky season of 1941, the United States experienced a drought on one of Halloween’s biggest commodities: sugar. It was an existential threat to trick-or-treaters across the nation.
Between agricultural workers fighting in the war and attacks on tropical climates like the Philippines and Puerto Rico, in December of 1941, American sugar supplies landed on the chopping block—record scratch—in addition to the two-front war.
Soon, the U.S. halted all sugar sales and developed a rationing plan.
The Russian Aerospace Forces have begun to utilise at least one type of very long range glide bomb for strikes on Ukrainain targets, which are reportedly a game changer for the ability of aviation assets to launch low cost mass strikes on targets far deeper behind the frontlines. Commenting on the new weapon’s impact, deputy head of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence Vadim Skibitsky stated that a new type of Russian bomb had demonstrated a range of 193 kilometres, stressing that this could fundamentally alter the dynamics on the frontlines.
The Venezuelan Armed Forces have launched major air and coastal defence exercises, in response to a further major escalation of the United States military presence near the country. The exercises began on October 25, after the U.S. Navy’s USS Gerald Ford Carrier Strike Group deployed near the country’s northern maritime border. This followed simulated strikes by B-1B bombers, during which the potentially hostile aircraft turned off their transponders, as well as other flights into the country’s Air Defence Identification Zone by B-1B and B-52H bombers.
A F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and a MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier both crashed into the South China Sea Sunday afternoon in separate aircraft mishaps. A spokesperson for the U.S. Pacific Fleet confirmed the two crashes, saying in a statement that the mishaps happened approximately half an hour apart.
All five Navy personnel involved in the two mishaps were safely recovered and described as being in stable condition. The U.S. Naval Institute first reported on the crashes.
Marines didn’t give any prior warning before firing more than two dozen artillery rounds over a busy freeway in a rehearsal for last weekend’s Marine Corps birthday celebration at Camp Pendleton.
California Highway Patrol did not receive word that Marines would fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 17, according to reporting by the Los Angeles Times.
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Sandboxx writes that artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of a technological revolution in anti-submarine warfare, powered by advances in sensors plus the technology and ubiquity of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs); these advances could upend nuclear deterrence as we know it.
The article describes technological advances in which sensors are no longer limited to being mostly acoustic. Advances would allow tracking the effects of a submarine moving through the water (e.g.
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