The Transformers franchise is acutely aware of just how extra it is. Thus lies its charm.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons. For anyone who was a fan of Beast Wars back in the 90s, seeing Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal on the big screen ought to be a nostalgic hoot.
Author: Michael
Look, if you’re still not playing Dungeons & Dragons, then I don’t know how to help you. It’s one of the most amusing ways to hang out with friends, tell a story together, and flex your muscles/magicks/hideous laughters. If that controversial (and glorious) episode of Community didn’t convince you, I bet Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves just might.
“We’re thieves but we helped the wrong person steal the wrong thing and unleash the greatest evil the world has ever known,” opens Chris Pine’s character, Edgin the Bard. I played a bard, once.
World War I brought about tremendous social changes to the U.S., particularly in the area of Women’s Rights and Civil Rights. The great need for “manpower” forced the military and war industries to recruit women for jobs that would have been unthinkable just prior to the start of the war.
For some women, that change had already started with the widespread use of the telephone starting in the late 1800s. At first, young men were given the job of literally being the vital connection between telephone customers, however, as a group they soon proved unsatisfactory.
A B-52H Stratofortress takes off from a flighline on Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Nov. 21, 2019. (Airman 1st Class Jesse Jenny/U.S. Air Force).
Two commanders and four subordinate leaders at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, have been relieved of command, according to a terse news release from 8th Air Force.
Maj. Gen. Andrew Gebara, commander of 8th Air Force, relieved Col. Gregory C. Mayer, commander of the 5th Mission Support Group, and Maj. Jonathan Welch, commander of the 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron on Monday, according to an Air Force Global Strike Command spokesperson.
The UK’s ability to conduct tactical battlefield airlift, particularly among the country’s special forces operators, will be constrained until 2028 when initial operational capability (IOC) of the first of 14 new CH-47 Extended Range (ER) transport helicopters is expected to be achieved.
The UAE Armed Forces has signed a contract, worth AED91m ($24.77m), with EDGE Group for the delivery of individual compact thermal sights.
Details on the number of thermal sights that will be supplied and specifications of the devices have not been disclosed.
The company said that the weapon sights will be provided in three variants.
The system, which brings together modular construction with superior thermal imaging technology, will be used by the armed forces for conducting decisive manoeuvres on land.
Over 70 towns in Somalia have been liberated from al-Shabaab since last summer.
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Robotican Rooster unmanned system with control station. (Janes/Akshara Parakala)
Robotican displayed an improved version of its Rooster unmanned system at the IDEX 2023 show, which was held in Abu Dhabi from 20 to 24 February.
The semi-autonomous hybrid system can operate either as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), and is designed to undertake indoor and outdoor intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, including in contested and Global Positioning System (GPS)-denied environments.
Paramount Aerospace Systems N-Raven loitering munition. (Janes/Akshara Parakala)
Paramount Aerospace Systems (PAS) will shortly commence production of its N-Raven loitering munition, the company announced atthe IDEX 2023 show, which was held from 20 to 24 February in Abu Dhabi.
According to PAS press release, production is set to start in April 2023 with first deliveries in October 2023 to meet the urgent requirements of armed forces around the world.
Illustration of GA-ASI MQ-9B with STOL wing kit. (Janes/Akshara Parakala)
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc (GA-ASI) presented its MQ-9B short take-off and landing (STOL) wing kit and Insitu exhibited its ‘Flares’ vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) kit for the Integrator unmanned aerial system (UAS) at IDEX 2023 show, which was held from 20 to 24 February in Abu Dhabi.