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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering
The 24-foot vessel has a range of roughly 1,000 nautical miles, a 1,000-pound payload capacity, and is capable of speeds above 35 knots.

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there have been a lot of revolutions in firearms technology.

Editor’s note: This is the first article in a two-part series exploring additive manufacturing.The Pentagon has poured unprecedented funds into additive manufacturing as a potential game-changer for defense production. For example, in fiscal year 2024, the Department of Defense allocated roughly $800 million for additive, which was a 166% increase from the prior year. By FY2026, projects involving 3D printing will swell to an estimated $3.3 billion, based on the budget request.

What happens when the United States tries to build a missile shield so ambitious that Russia and China start dreaming up weapons that no defense can stop? Two demonstrations of Russian weapons pageantry this fall offered a clear, if unsettling, glimpse of that future as President Vladimir Putin proudly showcased systems built to sidestep American defenses.On Oct. 26, Putin claimed the successful test of the Burevestnik long-range, nuclear-powered cruise missile.

The deployment of British paratroopers in Ukraine to support the ongoing war effort against Russia has been confirmed for the first time by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, after Lance Corporal George Hooley of the Parachute Regiment was killed in action on December 9. The Ministry observed that the 28-year-old was killed in a “tragic accident” while observing Ukrainian forces test new armaments, making him the first British military serviceman confirmed to have been killed in the conflict.

The Russian Aerospace Forces have received a new batch of Su-34M strike fighters, following sustained efforts to expand production rates to over double peacetime levels.State defence conglomerate Rostec reported that the state run United Aircraft Corporation “has manufactured and delivered a new batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers to the Russian Defence Ministry. The aircraft have completed a series of required ground and flight factory tests and have been handed over to the customer.

The UK has signed the Agreement on Defence Export Controls which will make it easier to grant export licences with France, Germany and Spain.

The conferenced version of the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act would require the Pentagon to brief lawmakers on operations since 2004 involving any unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) intercepts conducted by the integrated military commands that share leadership and a focus on defending North America.
This mandate marks one of three provisions associated with UAP — or the modern term for UFOs and other mysterious transmedium objects — that made it into the annual defense policy legislation.
It also comes as North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S.

The United States Navy is the most powerful in history. For decades, it has dominated the seas, and at the heart of that domination, at least through World War II, was the battleship. But today, the U.S. Navy’s only battleships are floating museums, and its largest warships, aircraft carriers, have few guns on their decks. So what happened? How did the once-prolific warship fade into history and why hasn’t it been reinvented?
The short answer is that modern warfare killed the battleship concept.

In December 1944, the United States was still very much in the middle of World War II. The June 6 landings in Normandy were fresh in the minds of troops on the ground and Americans back home, but setbacks throughout Europe and bloody battles in the Pacific Theater left a nation fatigued by the strains of war.
As the casualty counts increased and the war waged on, the air in America felt heavy. But for a moment in December, there was one thing taking everyone’s mind off the fighting: the Army-Navy game.
Army was ranked #1 and Navy, #2.