Navy Lt. Cmdr. Lawson “Red” Ramage was a bold submariner, initially known for attacking a light carrier in his first submarine command, but he would really become famous in 1943 when he led an assault on a Japanese fleet and sank or heavily damaged five ships during a submarine battle that lasted only 40 minutes.
The event, known as “Ramage’s Rampage,” resulted in him receiving the Medal of Honor.
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General Dynamic Information Technology announced Wednesday that it has built a new facility dedicated to fast-tracking development of emerging capabilities for its customers in the national security sector.
Located in Springfield, Virginia, the company’s so-called Mission Emerge Center is a 5,200-square-foot collaboration hub where GDIT can work closely with the Defense Department, Intelligence Community and other vendors to build, test and demonstrate advanced capabilities.
Swearing to remember, but knowing memories fade, some turn their grief into ink. Part therapy, part tribute, memorial tattoos are common across the military and veteran community, but never alike.
Sometimes they are faces. After a 19-year-old Marine died in a plane crash in California, his father put his son’s portrait on his forearm — always close, but easily hidden by a sleeve when the pain of sharing is too much.
Sometimes they are sprawling, radiant murals, but other times they are barely there at all.
In 2023, Tim Sweijs wrote “Mind the Middle Powers,” where he argued that middle power countries play as critical of a role in shaping geopolitics and determining the future of international stability as great powers. Two years later, we asked Tim to revisit his argument.Image: Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2023 article, “Mind the Middle Powers,” you argued that the United States had yet to prove that it could operate effectively in the new reality that middle powers will play a pivotal role in shaping international order.
The message being sent to Army aviators is “we can replace you with robots,” a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot said, adding, “whether it’s intentional or not, that’s a lot of what my junior pilots are getting.”
Pilots at major Army aviation bases in Texas, Colorado, New York and Hawaii said morale has been noticeably waning in the wake of a bombshell Army announcement in September that the service plans to cut nearly 6,500 active duty pilot positions in an early step towards an Army-wide shift to uncrewed aircraft, like drones.
The story of the Black Seminoles is one of endurance, freedom, and tactical brilliance. Emerging from the complex crossroads of Native American sovereignty and African resistance to slavery, the Black Seminoles fought the United States to a standstill during the 19th century. Their most famous struggle, the Second Seminole War (1835–1842), became one of the largest and costliest conflicts in early American history. According to many historians, it represents the most successful sustained slave rebellion in United States history.
Plexsys and BAE Systems OneArc have entered into a MoU, establishing a formal commitment to development in defence training systems.
Digital Catapult has announced the selection of five UK startups to participate in its Defence Testbed Accelerator programme.
The British Army’s Ajax AFV programme has been plagued by persistent issues around noise and vibration, causing significant delays.
The Russian infantry has developed a drone to lay cable between infantry positions on the frontline, avoiding the need to expose soldiers to fire.
Every infantry officer knows this is a critical procedure to accomplish to link fortified positions.
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