Footage of Pvt. Jovan Collazo hijacking a school bus near Fort Jackson, South Carolina in May, 2021. (Richland County Sheriff’s Office).
A former Army trainee who fled Fort Jackson, South Carolina and hijacked a school bus full of children was found not guilty by reason of insanity last week.
Jovan Collazo, 25, will forgo prison and instead spend at least 120 days at a mental health facility following an evaluation by the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.
According to images posted on the “Praise the Steph” Twitter account on March 12, 2023, Russian multi-role, repaired, and repainted Ukrainian soldiers of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade now use Tigr-M 4×4 armored vehicles.
The 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade is a Ukrainian military force headquartered in Chernihiv. As part of the ongoing military reforms in Ukraine, the Brigade was established in 2013 and is today one of the most combat-ready formations in the Ukrainian military.
The Navy is asking lawmakers for $901 million in fiscal 2024 for research, development, test and evaluation work for its Conventional Prompt Strike program, as it pursues plans to integrate hypersonic missiles into destroyers and submarines.
The sea service is also looking to buy eight “all-up rounds” and associated canisters for CPS weapons in 2024, marking the first procurement of the missiles. The Navy intends to procure a total of 64 rounds in fiscal 2024-2028, according to budget documents released Monday.
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In what was truly a bizarre scene, soldiers belonging to the British Army’s Brigade of Gurkhas filled the populated streets of Cahors in southern France. The sound of blank ammunition rounds being fired off echoed down bustling avenues as locals casually strolled by and life went on seemingly as normal as the mock battle unfolded around them.
While it looked like a war was being fought in Cahors, what was really happening was a hyper-realistic training scenario that was part of a much larger set of multi-national exercises that are ongoing in France.
General Valery Gerasimov is the post-Soviet era’s longest-serving chief of the Russian General Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military commander. Many estimate Gerasimov’s army to be the second most powerful in the world after 2012.
The competence curtain was lifted when Russian tanks reentered Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Russian army is exhausted and humiliated a year later, although it can still massively destroy Ukrainian settlements and lives.
In the coming weeks, four vendors awarded on the Department of Defense’s enterprise cloud contract will have the opportunity to bid on offerings at the secret classification level, a critical step forward, according to a top Pentagon IT official.
The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) was awarded in December to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle heralding a new era in the DOD for enterprise cloud following the aborted Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure effort.
Each of those vendors will compete for task orders on the contract.
The U.S. military reported that a Russian Su-27 fighter plane and an American MQ-9 Reaper drone collided on Tuesday over the Black Sea. According to a statement from the U.S. military’s European Command, American forces shot down the drone in international waters. The Russian plane’s intercept of the drone was dubbed “reckless” by the White House.
“Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and damaged by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and full loss of the MQ-9,” said U.S.
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The U.S. Air Force says that one of its MQ-9 Reaper drones crashed into the Black Sea today after a collision with a Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jet. The incident was the end result of a “reckless” and “unprofessional” intercept of the uncrewed aircraft by a pair of Russian Su-27s in international airspace, according to the service.
The collision occurred at approximately 7:03 AM local time, a press release from U.S. Europe Command (EUCOM).
Chief information officers from each of the U.S. military services traveled to the West Coast in February with Dave McKeown, principal deputy CIO of the Defense Department, to visit the four cloud service providers that were awarded spots on the Pentagon’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) procurement.
An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan in 2008. (U.S. Air Force / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt).
An Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after it was intercepted by two Russian fighters, one of which collided with the drone, U.S. military officials announced on Tuesday.
“Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft, resulting in a crash and complete loss of the MQ-9,” Air Force Gen. James B. Hecker, commander, U.S.
