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With First Person Video (FPV) drones gaining an increasing role on the battlefield, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digitial Transformation is hosting what it calls “The Drone Army FPV Super Bowl” to help spur domestic development of these weapons.
The goal of the event, which will be held June 1, “is to show the capabilities of Ukrainian-made FPV drones to the Security and Defense Forces for further contracting,” Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Federov said on his Telegram channel Tuesday.

In recent days, an international controversy has erupted over China‘s alleged efforts to carry out an illegal salvage operation for a sunken battleship during World War II.
As the world turned its attention to repair work on the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, another HMS Prince of Wales has made headlines, but this is not a story of restoration but one of illegal salvage. The situation has provoked a heated debate since sunken warships are traditionally considered war graves, which generates an ethical and patrimonial conflict.

Michael Miklaucic, RealClearDefense

How did the relationship with the other Allies and the Soviet Union become so fraught that they went from killing Nazis together to being at each other’s throats? While the divide existed before the war. After all, World War I ended with future Allied powers sending troops to try and help prevent the Communist takeover of Russia. And the Soviet Union secretly worked with the Nazis until the Nazis betrayed them.

By March of 1944, World War II had turned decisively in favor of the Allies. The war was far from won, but the Allied nations were advancing on all fronts, in every theater of battle, all over the world. 
The Allies had broken the Japanese on Papua New Guinea, German U-boats were dropping to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and the Army Air Forces began bombing Italy, Berlin, and Palau. 
On the homefront, life was beginning to return to a kind of normalcy. Dartmouth College was set to play the University of Utah in the NCAA Division I basketball tournament.

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A People’s Liberation Army J-16 Flanker multirole fighter performed an “unnecessarily aggressive” maneuver close to a U.S. Air Force RC-135 surveillance plane over the South China Sea recently, according to the Pentagon. The incident is the latest in a string of encounters between the Chinese military and that of the United States and its allies in these hotly contested waters, with recent previous examples including a simulated attack on a U.S.

Kevin Hudson, a retired Marine Colonel, is the Special Director at PXG who most notably handles the PXG for Heroes program at the company. PXG for Heroes is a special program to get veterans and first responders discounted prices on their products. It is one – if not the first – of its kind in the world of golf. PXG is for Parsons Extreme Golf, which was founded by Marine and Vietnam Veteran, Bob Parsons.

Screenshot from a video showing Marines being beaten by a crowd of teenagers in San Clemente, California. (Nextdoor).

An appalling video shared on social media shows a mob of dozens of people, many of whom appear to be teenagers, viciously attacking three Marines in San Clemente, California, on May 26.
No information was available on Tuesday about the medical conditions of the three Marines.
Marine Corps officials are aware of the incident and looking into the matter, said Maj. Lucas Burke, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Division.
Lance Cpl.

For most “stokers” aboard steam-powered ships, no news is good news. The only time anyone would notice the hard work being done shoveling and stoking the coal in the bowels of a ship would be when they stop – or something else goes wrong. As long as the ship was still moving under full power, there’s no reason to interrupt their important work.

On December 4, 1959, the schoolchildren of Hawthorne Elementary in Clairemont, California witnessed an impossible and traumatic sight. The Navy pilot of an F3H Demon jet fighter flew low over the school, barely missing the school fence, and then disappeared. Suddenly, a massive fireball erupted from the nearby canyon.
The students, many of them children of Navy service members, didn’t know it, but a pilot had just sacrificed himself to protect them.