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On Tuesday, U.S. officials announced that the Islamic State militant believed to have been the mastermind behind the Abbey Gate suicide bombing at Kabul airport that killed 183 people, including 13 U.S. service members, had been killed in a Taliban ground attack.
Although the Taliban strike occurred earlier this month, U.S. intelligence analysts were only able to determine “with high confidence” that the ISIS-K militant had been killed in recent days.

The U.S. Navy achieved some amazing miracles in the Pacific in World War II. One of those miracles was when it came to damage control and ship salvage. The USS Yorktown nearly sank and then fought at Midway with just three days of repairs. Ships like the USS Virginia sank with extreme damage at Pearl Harbor but later fought again. And the USS O’Brien made it over a month and 2,800 miles from the torpedo that killed it.
Yes. A ship took fatal damage, sailed nearly 3,000 miles, and still stayed afloat long enough for the crew to escape when it finally succumbed to its damage.

Developed from the ArmaLite Rifle AR-15, the M16/M4 family of weapons is synonymous with the modern U.S. military. Naturally, certain generations are associated with different conflicts and eras. While the original M16 and M16A1 are linked with the Vietnam War, the M16A2 is connected to pre-9/11 conflicts like Operation Gothic Serpent, Operation Desert Storm and the early days of the Global War on Terror. The weapon’s designer, Eugene Stoner, was not a fan of some of the changes implemented in the M16A2.

John Mauk, War Room
Wargames are useful to assess possible outcomes and develop strategies, but this particular outcome is optimistic at best and is underpinned by flawed assumptions.

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Jaspreet Gill, Breaking Defense
TITAN is the service’s ground station meant to process data from space and land-based “sensors” using artificial intelligence, which will then be sent off to…

Capaccio, Bloomberg
The Defense Department has begun an effort to prevent major delays in the Air Force’s new $96 billion intercontinental ballistic missile, after an internal review found…

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Norway is to replace its 14 NH90 helicopters with six new MH-60Rs (pictured) to be procured from the US. (US Navy)
The United States has approved the sale to Norway of Lockheed Martin MH-60R Seahawk anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and search-and-rescue (SAR) rotorcraft for an estimated USD1 billion.
The State Department approval announced on 26 April covers six helicopters, as well as related equipment, spares, training, and support.

The Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine conflict delayed reinforcement of the unmanned aerial system capabilities of the Danish army’s 1st Brigade. (Danish MoD/Mads Rolf Ahrenskjær)
Acting Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen informed Denmark’s Defence Conciliation Circle parliamentary group on 25 April that seven procurement programmes of the country’s 2018–23 defence agreement will be delayed during the period it covers.