Author: Michael

The Army just published a pair of pictures this week of the next-generation version of the M1 Abrams main battle tank.
The black-and-white pictures are the first glimpse of the M1E3, the next version of the Army’s 46-year-old tank, which has been the subject of overhaul promises for close to a decade, with upgrades for a modern, drone-and-cyber-heavy battlefield.

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At 10:46 p.m. on Jan. 2, President Donald Trump gave the order for Delta Force special operators supported by more than 150 aircraft to launch a mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
Trump’s message to the force prior to the mission was “Good luck, and Godspeed,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine later told reporters. Details remain scant, but here’s what we know so far.
Named “Operation Absolute Resolve,” the order came after a U.S.

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SOF Aviation Deploys To UK – Question Is Why – Ship Takedown?

UPDATE: U.S. European Command announces the seizure Bella 1.

UPDATE: U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker near Iceland before Russian warships and a submarine could reach it. The ship, formerly Bella 1, had recently reflagged as Russian, reports Fox News.

UPDATE: Russian media reports US SOF elements currently undertaking a ship takedown of the tanker Marinera in the northern Atlantic.

US Special Forces have just left Wick in Scotland, heading towards Bella 1 – Marinera in the North Sea.

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Nearly two decades after Adolphus Greely was wounded three times during the Civil War, he accepted a much more perilous mission. In 1881, the United States partnered with 10 other countries to develop a series of circumpolar stations to study the Arctic. Part of the first International Polar Year, the expeditions sought to learn more about a region of the world widely considered a “sheer blank” at the time. Greely was placed in charge of the northernmost station off Lake Franklin Bay in Greenland, roughly 500 miles from the North Pole.

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