During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day.In the scenario, adversary covert forces used first-person view drones to intercept American helicopters that were shuttling between austere forward island airbases. Some helicopters were shot down, and the rest were forced to suspend flight operations, meaning the island bases were cut off from each other and from easy resupply. Fortunately, one of the U.S. bases included a small, forward-deployed team of military engineers and their equipment.
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In 1901, military analyst Jan Bloch declared that new military technologies had changed war so radically that the study of history had become useless. He castigated military officers who prepared for future war based on “musty precedents” and who failed to recognize that the past was as irrelevant to the future as the experiences of caterpillars were to butterflies. Some of his tactical predictions did prove prescient: He anticipated that modern firepower and entrenchments would make decisive battle impossible. But he was very wrong about the continued value of history.
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The contract includes ground and flight tests to validate XRC ramjet design and production processes
. Whitney, M+A
The current AIM-120D generation incorporates a two-way datalink, GPS-enhanced inertial measurement unit, expanded no-escape envelope, improved high-angle off-boresight…
Carley Welch, Breaking Defense
Anduril, Castelion, Lockheed Martin, RTX and Mach Industries were awarded Other Transaction Agreements for an undisclosed amount
Parth Satam, The Aviationist
The W93 warhead and Mk7 reentry body assembly are part of the Trident II D5 Life Extension (D5LE2) which will modernize the sea-based leg of the nuclear triad
Brian Everstine, Aviation Week
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Japan is advancing its F-15 Japan Super Interceptor (JSI) programme, with the first 20 upgraded aircraft scheduled to complete deployment by the end of fiscal year 2029. The program is intended to substantially extend the capabilities of selected F-15J Eagles operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), which were procured from the early 1980s and are currently considered decades past obsolescence. The revised schedule represents a delay from the original target of completing modifications to the initial 20 aircraft by the end of FY2027.
COVID cases rising across the US. Image: The Wellness Company
The failed Fauci approach to COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on our healthcare system. Not only are millions of Americans still dealing with the long-term health impacts from the COVID vaccine, but now COVID – like the flu – is now an unwanted annual guest for tens of millions of Americans all across the country.
For the first time since early spring, COVID numbers are on the rise, and in some places – particularly in the south and on the west coast – the numbers are rising dramatically.
Russia has delivered a direct warning to NATO: if the alliance attempts to isolate Kaliningrad from the rest of Russia, Moscow could respond with military force, including nuclear weapons.
The warning was embedded within a diplomatic document sent directly to NATO, in which Moscow accused the alliance of following a “dangerous and reckless course” that created “high risks” of direct armed conflict.
Tu-95 Bomber Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Tu-95 Bear Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.