U.S. Army special operations soldiers conduct training. Sgt. Anthony Bryant/U.S. Army.
This was certainly one hell of a hotel wake-up call.
Around 10 p.m. on April 4, U.S. Army Special Operations Command soldiers, assisted by personnel from the FBI’s Boston office, entered a downtown Boston hotel as part of a training exercise. Once inside, they raided a room and detained a man inside. As so often happens in training, though, a problem arose: It was the wrong room and the wrong guy.
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A joint training exercise gone wrong left an innocent man in handcuffs in the bathroom of a hotel in Boston earlier this week. The practice raid, carried out by the members of the FBI and U.S. Army special operations forces personnel was supposed to involve the mock capture of a role player, but they barged into the wrong room and interrogated an unsuspecting guest.
The faux raid happened sometime before midnight local time on March 4 at the Revere Hotel in Boston.
“I think that in the future, we will be able to deliver the rest of our MiG-29 aircraft to Ukraine if necessary,” President Andrzej Duda declared during a joint press conference in which Volodymyr Zelensky also participated.
Duda also announced that Poland had recently delivered four MiG-29 aircraft to Ukraine. He also mentioned the number that is expected to be received soon.
Responding to a question from a Ukrainian journalist, Duda explained in detail the plan used to transfer the post-Soviet jet planes, which had already been done before and which is planned for the future.
The Department of Defense has lofty plans to modernize how it builds, acquires and deploys software capabilities to warfighters. But a new report from the Government Accountability Office suggests that the DOD needs to do more to ensure it has the workforce necessary to carry out its efforts.
The ability to rapidly develop and deliver software is a key element of the Pentagon’s modernization plans to respond to adversary threats.
The Navy’s testing of its new — and highly secretive — Project Overmatch capabilities is “in full swing,” but the service’s top officer is taking what he calls a “deliberate” approach to rolling out the technology more broadly across the fleet.
Project Overmatch is the sea service’s contribution to the Pentagon’s broader Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative to better link the U.S. military’s networks, sensors and shooters.
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From left to right: Marine Cpl. John Darby. Lance Cpl.Nicholas Dural, and Cpl. Bradley Feldkamp received theNavy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal on April 6 for stopping a violent stabbing attack in a restaurant. (U.S. Marine Corps photo.).
Three newly-minted Marine Security Guards were honored on Thursday morning for stopping two suspects from stabbing another person with a knife at a Virginia Chick-fil-A, a Corps spokesman said.
Cpl. John Darby, Cpl. Bradley Feldkamp, and Lance Cpl.
In order to facilitate close cooperation and future collaboration on their respective MQ-9B programs, Belgium and the UK have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The UK, the main purchaser of the MQ-9B, which will be designated the Protector RG1 in RAF service, has established the MQ-9B Cooperation MOU to enable cooperation between like-minded international governments that have purchased a variant of the MQ-9B.
In 2024, the air component will receive this remote-controlled aircraft system in Belgium.
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It’s fair to say that artists’ renderings of satellite systems in orbit are pretty common. Yet images of satellites in orbit taken by other satellites in orbit are a whole different ballgame.
This is precisely what the Twitter account of NASA’s Landsat Program provided on April 3. In a two-second video posted in a Tweet, we see a series of ‘satellite-to-satellite’ images. Here, NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite was pictured orbiting Earth by Maxar Technologies’ commercial WorldView-3 observation satellite.
Envelope expansion testing on the CH-53K King Stallion lasted for five days and nights in the Atlantic. Once the initial sea trials in June 2020 were successful, the aircraft began testing in a contemporary naval environment.
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New video has emerged of the latest, re-engined version of China’s Xi’an Y-20 military transport aircraft. The Y-20B, which is powered by the domestically produced WS-20 high-bypass turbofan engine, is a significant development compared to the earlier models, which relied on Russian-supplied Soloviev D-30KP-2 engines. What’s more, there are now indications that the improved Y-20B may now be in now in operational service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, or PLAAF.
