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This 60-ton powerhouse unleashes lasers, electronic warfare, and drone defenses, redefining armored combat against evolving threats
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The cool under pressure agent yanked the MP7 from a discreet backpack after a shooter tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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The upgrade is designed to enhance the aircraft’s ability to detect, track, and counter evolving threats in contested and austere environments.
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Footage of a Hezbollah FPV strike drone barely missing an Israeli medevac flight in southern Lebanon this afternoon. The flight was carrying soldiers injured/killed in another Hezbollah FPV drone attack earlier this morning.
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Of the 10,425 military dogs trained during World War II, Chips was extraordinary.
The German shepherd, Siberian husky, and collie mix was only about 2 years old when he joined the United States Army in 1942, but he grew up fast. Before his family donated him to the Dogs for Defense program, Chips never strayed far from home.
That soon changed—and fast.
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Like most pooches, Chips possessed off-the-charts cuteness and two other traits inherent in our four-legged friends.
The U.S. Air Force 35th Fighter Wing on April 24 conducted an F-35 Lightning II ribbon-cutting ceremony at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, marking the official introduction of the new fighter type to the air unit. Department of Defence sources reported that this signalled “the start of its next chapter in fifth-generation airpower,” and reflected “the wing’s continued evolution to meet mission requirements and reinforce allied relationships.
The Ohio-Class Is Retiring: The Means Fewer Tomahawks: The military is a veritable alphabet soup of acronyms, and this is especially true of the wild, wacky, and wonderful world of submarine war.
You have your SSNs, i.e., nuclear- powered “fast attack” boats. You have your SSBNs, i.e., ballistic missile submarines, which, in addition to being powered by nuclear reactors, also wield nuclear weapons, thus serving as a leg of America’s nuclear strategic triad (hence their nickname of “boomers”).
The U.S. Navy’s SSN (X) next-generation attack submarine program, which plans to combine the stealth of the Virginia-class with the firepower of the Seawolf-class, is delayed. The first procurement has been pushed back to the early 2040s, from a previous target of 2035.
The primary reasons for the delay are budget limitations and the need to manage resources across multiple shipbuilding programs, most of which are also overdue and over budget.
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 1, 2022) The future Virginia-class attack submarine Montana (SSN 794) conducts initial sea trials Feb.