The initial reaction to Kengo Kuma’s design for the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Memorial has not been kind. Criticism seems to fall into three buckets: its abstract design, the absence of a clear heroic tribute, and a lack of a “roll call” or list of names of the fallen. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a retired Navy SEAL now in Congress, called it a “jazz hands monument to our fallen brothers and sisters.” Sen. Jim Banks, another Navy veteran-turned-lawmaker who served in Afghanistan, referred to it as “disconnected abstract art.
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Pompano Beach, Florida – A new report by the London-based think tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, entitled “Russia’s UAV Campaign over Europe,” concludes that over the past 15 months, Russia is believed to have launched regular UAV incursions into NATO airspace. These violations were not carried out, however, for the simple purpose of harassment or to gauge how long these NATO militaries would take to respond to airspace violations or other hostile acts.
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Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
GAO previously questioned the Navy’s choice of a C-130-based aircraft to meet its nuclear command and control needs.
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New footage from American Rheinmetall shows the company’s XM30 infantry fighting vehicle concept in greater detail
Jared Keller, Defense News
The U.S. military is closing in on its high-energy laser weapon of choice for counter-drone missions. Now it needs the vehicles to support it.
Following confirmation that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force 1st Air Brigade had been re-equipped with J-20A fifth generation fighters, significant questions have been raised regarding the implications of this enhancement to the elite unit’s combat capabilities. The brigade transitioned from baseline J-20 fighters to the heavily enhanced J-20A variant, with its older fighters being reallocated to lower priority units.
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Footage released by Russian sources has shown the T-90M main battle tank in a new configuration, which integrates further explosive reactive armour, anti-drone ‘cage’ protection, and the Arena-M hard kill active protection system.