Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for the showcase were transparent: Moscow offered to sell its fifth-generation fighter jet to New Delhi the next day. This is nothing new. Defense ties between the two countries go back decades. For the Biden administration, those ties were both an irritant and a puzzle: an irritant because India’s purchases undercut U.S.
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SecDef works to return personnel with full restitution
Today, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth uttered words that thousands of U.S. military personnel loved to hear – the Covid vaccine mandate was an illegal order. Hegseth ordered all those who were forced out over vaccine refusal to be returned to service with full restitution.
Armed Forces Press has been vocal about the illegal nature of the order for years, sticking our neck out, and taking flak from those leaders lacking courage to do the right thing for our troops.
As the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment stormed toward Fort Wagner, South Carolina, the soldier carrying the American flag fell.
It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War.
Charging with the 54th was Sgt. William Carney, who saw the colors fall. He picked up the flag and carried it forward, reaching the wall of the fort, where his comrades rallied around him.
Soon, the regiment’s position became untenable, and the order was called to retreat.
Shot several times, Carney held the flag aloft as the unit dropped back, returning it to Union lines.
The internet is abuzz with news of Hegseth Chief of Staff Joe Kapser being removed from his position today.
This is the 5th high-level departure from the Pentagon in a week.
AFP reported on Dan Caldwell’s outing previously this week amid news his crime was opposing an attack on Iran.
It will take the US at least two-and-a-half-years to replenish stocks of 155mm artillery shells donated to Ukraine since 2022.
The Marine Corps recently launched a pilot program that’s deploying “digital transformation teams” around the service to help personnel digitize processes, expand trustworthy data pipelines, identify vulnerabilities, and ultimately align and expedite AI-enabling applications for real-world operations, according to a top official involved.
During a keynote presentation and sideline conversations with DefenseScoop at the AITalks conference on Thursday, Marine Corps AI lead Capt.
The Defense Department is getting ready to release a request for prototype proposals as the military prepares to integrate future wireless, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities into its networks.
The upcoming RPP will be for the open centralized unit distributed unit (OCUDU) project.
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