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Babcock International Group has produced the first 3D printed printed parts for installation on the British Army’s in-service armoured fleets.
It is the first time a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) supplier has used 3D metal printed parts to repair and extend the life of the armed force’s armoured vehicles.
The aim of additively manufactured parts is to address the increasing technical and commercial obsolescence challenges.

The development represents a key milestone for the company’s longer-term global advanced manufacturing investment programme.

A World War II-era field manual for saboteurs.

During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was manned with thousands of soldiers and spies, operating behind enemy lines to organize local resistance, gather intelligence and generally cause chaos for the enemy in occupied Europe. But as one OSS manual shows, sabotage isn’t always about blowing up railways or severing communication lines. Sometimes it’s as simple as being the absolute worst employee possible for your Nazi occupiers.

T&P
“This team is equipped to travel great distances and fight their way in and out if necessary to make the mission happen.

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The US Navy will stop booting sailors who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
On Thursday, Jan. 12, the Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Adm. Richard J. Cheeseman Jr.

B. Vincent, DefenseScoop
HII, one of the leading U.S.

Forbes
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) says it has documented over 100 new instances of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), or what might have once been called…

Insider
Years of delays, cost overruns, and technical glitches with the F-35 have put the Pentagon in a dilemma.

U.S. Army Rangers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, fire a 120mm mortar during a tactical training exercise on Camp Roberts, Calif., Jan. 30, 2014. Rangers constantly train to maintain the highest level of tactical proficiency. (US Army photo by Pfc. Nathaniel Newkirk/Released).

Editor’s note: this article by Hope Seck first appeared on Sandboxx.
The Army’s most elite light infantry element is looking to improve its ability to deliver precision indirect fires and clear out before becoming an enemy target.

Seth Cropsey, The Hill
The House of Representatives finally has a Select Committee on China, a sorely-needed instrument to drive China policy debate in Congress and, if its agenda is set…

This week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma features author and public intellectual Walter Russell Mead speaking about his book, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. As Mead discusses, the trope that American foreign policy toward Israel can be explained by the outsized influence of […]
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