Author: Michael

Every weapon system in the United States military has a face. The gunner, the trigger puller. The one whose name ends up in the citation, the after-action report, the paragraph some war correspondent types up while pawing at a steaming cup of coffee. That person gets the story.
Alongside them, someone was setting up the tripod, feeding the belt, swapping the barrel with heat-mitt hands while brass rained down like confetti, sharing bags of gummy bears: the other guys.

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First-person footage shows a Yak-52 aircraft gunner shooting down a Shahed drone over southern Ukraine.
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The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on March 25 shot down a U.S. Navy F-18E/F carrier based fighter, with footage of the incident appearing to show a short range surface-to-air missile attack destroying the aircraft. The aircraft was shot down over Chabahar County and crashed in the Indian Ocean, where the U.S. naval presence has been heavily concentrated. The Corps reported that this was the fourth U.S.

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