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Key Points and Summary – Decades before the Space Shuttle, the U.S. backed the X-20 Dyna-Soar: a reusable, skip-glide spaceplane born from WWII German concepts and accelerated by the Sputnik shock.
-Boeing’s delta-wing craft would ride a booster to the edge of space, bounce along the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, and glide home.
The Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 successfully landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility Oct. 27, 2019.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command once again quickly launched fighter jets to intercept Russian planes after four were spotted over the waters near Alaska.
In a statement, NORAD said that two Russian Tu-95 bombers and a pair of Su-35 fighter jets were spotted inside the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone on Wednesday. NORAD did not disclose details on it until the next day. NORAD said that four F-16 fighter jets, four KC-135 refueling tankers and an E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system (or AWACS) plane were quickly launched to intercept the four Russian planes.
L Todd Wood speaks with COL Rob Maness (USAF, Ret) on the drones disturbing air travel over Denmark, and geopolitical events.
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Both wars and those who fight those wars have undergone dramatic changes in the last few centuries. Just as uniforms went from ill-fitting wool to wrinkle-free, camouflaged outfits with their own pesticidal qualities, the role of people has also changed. And not just soldiers, but the spouses who stand behind them.
Even though it was only males who were allowed to join the service until relatively recently, the wives of those males were expected to take on some extraordinary roles—and those roles have also evolved.
President Donald Trump said he was ordering the military into Portland and authorized “full force” in the latest use of troops inside the United States.
In a post on social media, Trump ordered the Department of Defense to mobilize troops to Portland to fight “domestic terrorists” and protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement buildings.
A new government watchdog report found that military ground vehicles used by the Army and Marine Corps are often not able to be used in the field by troops. The Government Accountability Office report found that of the 18 different combat and support vehicles examined, 16 are not mission capable or available for operations. The GAO’s investigation found that the decline — looking at data from 2015 to 2024 — often stemmed from a lack of available materiel and parts, as well a decline in the number of available maintainers.
WaPo
The defense secretary is expected to lecture about the “warrior ethos” for less than an hour, according to multiple people familiar with the event.
Brent Ramsey, The Patriot Post
Experts agree that we need a bigger Navy. Yet despite all of the promises and good intentions, nothing happens to bring that to pass.
Holliday, Somerville & Smith, WSJ
The work is being shifted to a new organization, called DAWG, to accelerate plans to buy thousands of drones