Author: Michael

Upon taking office, the Biden administration fired all of the Trump-appointed service academy board of visitor members. The move was challenged to no avail by graduates concerned about the Marxist takeover of our nation’s military officer training institutions.
That move has just been reversed by President Trump.
AFP and STARRS.us, as well as other America First service academy alumni groups have worked hard for this day.
Hoo rah!

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Defense contractor L3Harris is developing an ambitious effort to control thousands of autonomous systems at the same time through a single user interface.
Much work remains, however. Company officials noted that in live testing, the firm has experimented with fewer than 100 platforms to date, although they hope to soon begin expanding that.
The technology, dubbed Autonomous Multidomain Operations Resiliency Platform for Heterogenous Unmanned Swarms (AMORPHOUS), gets at some of the difficult challenges the Defense Defense is trying to tackle as it relates to autonomy.

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During the height of the Cold War, the U.S. military and atomic scientists decided to fire some nuclear rockets into space. The goal wasn’t to see how much damage the nuclear explosions could do — by the early 1960s the military had enough nuclear weapons and enough understanding of their explosive potential — but rather to study the side effects of a nuclear explosion. And the result accidentally caused a massive crimson aurora visible hundreds of miles away from the launch site.
The U.S. military had carried out several nuclear tests throughout the 1950s.

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