The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is draining at its fastest rate in roughly a decade — projections suggest levels will drop from 415 million barrels to 243 million barrels, the lowest since the early 1980s. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, prompting the U.S. to release 172 million barrels from the SPR and to coordinate a 400 million-barrel international release. U.S. gasoline now averages $4.55 per gallon — a 50% jump since the war began. GasBuddy projects the national summer average will reach $4.80 per gallon, with $5 possible if the Strait stays closed.
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Many young athletes have dreams of being the next A’ja Wilson or Jalen Brunson. That’s a nice fantasy—until you’re a military kid playing overseas.
While stateside athletes are grinding in packed gyms, traveling Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) circuits, and getting eyes from recruiters every weekend, military kids overseas are often putting in just as much work… with half the exposure and fewer opportunities.
The U.S. Army has provided a $61 million contract for Lockheed Martin to develop two major upgrades for the MIM-104 Patriot air defence system, namely to develop acontainerised missile launcher and a hemispherical guidance device which will allow the system to engage targets 360 degrees around it. The Army in December 2025 announced that a new variant of the Patriot wouldbe able to engage targets that are not directly in front of its launchers, with the lack of such a capability having previously been a leading shortcoming of the system.
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A new global satellite system to alert U.S.
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Touring Normandy beaches shortly after D-Day in 1944, General Dwight D Eisenhower reportedly said, ‘If I didn’t have air supremacy, I wouldn’t be here.
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Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S.
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Remembering those who saved the nation.
In a recent interview on his new book on the F-35 program, combat aviation expert Abraham Abrams has evaluated how the aircraft compares to the only other Western fifth generation fighter type, the F-22. The F-22 made its first flight and was first brought into service a decade before the F-35 program achieved these same milestones, and was initially expected to serve as a heavier and longer ranged counterpart to the fighter as part of a high-low combination, much as the F-15 did for the F-16 in the previous generation, and as the Chinese J-20 does for the J-35 fifth generation fighter.
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