The M1 Abrams and the Leopards could well face Russia’s new T-14 Armata tank, footage of which was first seen in Ukraine last week.
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Details are still limited, but a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor has shot down a relatively high-flying “object” over U.S. territorial waters off the coast of Alaska. What exactly this may have been and who it might have belonged to are unknown, but this does come less than a week after an F-22 brought down what American officials say was a Chinese surveillance balloon after it traveled through U.S. and Canadian airspace for a number of days.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Following a busy nine months deployed around the globe to a variety of crisis operations a couple of years ago, one Army unit realized the need to improve its data to be more successful.
“For this formation, in the last, what we’ll call nine months, we’ve executed three things: one in [European Command], one in [Indo-Pacific Command], and then obviously, our most recent operation in [Hamid Karzai International Airport],” then Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, who commanded the 82nd Airborne Division, said during a presentation in October of 2021.
The Pentagon. (Associated Press photo).
The U.S. military downed a “high-altitude object” over northeastern Alaska on Friday because it posed a threat to commercial aviation, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
“We’ll attempt recovery and we’ll see what we can learn more from it,” Kirby told reporters during a White House news conference.
When Kirby was asked who might have launched the object, he replied, “I have no idea.”
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Harold felt unable to breathe as the train drew closer to Jamaica Station. His insides jumped around, his heart raced — his eyes began to well up.
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Fantasy football apps. Dating apps. Secretive, encrypted messaging apps. An app for dealing luxury yachts. Even a pair of apps developed by a Chinese commercial drone manufacturer.
These are but a few of the types of unauthorized mobile apps that the Pentagon inspector general recently found on Defense Department personnel’s DOD-issued mobile devices meant to be used for official business only, the IG revealed in a new report Thursday.
An early Tranche 1 Eurofighter Typhoon of the RAF. Eurofighter
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that “nothing is off the table” in response to a renewed call for fighter jets from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky during a high-profile visit to the United Kingdom on February 8. Speculation rapidly began to grow about the possibility of the United Kingdom providing Kyiv with at least some of its older Eurofighter Typhoon jets.
A special operations troop call “good effects” over the radio after a precision strike on a target during the Special Operations Terminal Attack Controller Course at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, Nov. 2, 2020. (U.S. Air Force Photo.
There’s a new movie, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, coming out this spring about a former Army Special Forces soldier who travels back to Afghanistan to rescue a former interpreter who saved his life. In the trailer, we see Jake Gyllenhaal’s character with a beard, a baseball cap, Oakleys, and all the traditional operator accouterment.
Where’s the beef? (Task & Purpose photo illustration).
Out of all of the A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft in the U.S. Air Force’s fleet, an A-10 Warthog with the serial number 81-994 may be among the most unique for one simple reason: it’s the only aircraft we know of to sport kill markings for taking out a cow downrange.