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Last Friday, the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, more famously known as the Thunderbirds, brought some thunder with them.

Ryan Chan, Newsweek The U.S. Air Force operates a fleet of spy aircraft for different types of reconnaissance missions and deploys them to overseas locations.

Xu, The Epoch Times Chinese investments in U.S. agricultural land are dispersed nationwide, with the largest concentrations in Texas, North Carolina, Missouri, Utah, and Florida.

Ziccarelli & Treviño, The American Mind What do we say to the world beyond America? In a word: return. Your futures depend upon it, and so does ours. It’s time to be great again.

The Global War on Terror saw an electronic revolution in military equipment. Soldiers were issued radios, red dots, GPS systems, infrared lasers, night vision, and other pieces of gear – all of which needed batteries.
While the CR123A lithium battery has established itself as a go-to power source for many of these enablers, the Army aims to simplify its battery logistics further with a single power solution.

Leaked military files have confirmed that the Ukraine Armed Forces have lost more than 1.7 million troops, including both those killed and missing, since the outbreak of full scale hostilities between the country and Russia in February 2022. A digital card index acquired by hacker groups from Ukraine’s Chief of Staff has provided details on dead or missing personnel, including their names, details of their deaths, and personal data of their families.

…this time the USS New Orleans (LPD 18)

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Via Brian McElhiney and Keishi Koja at Stars and Stripes:

Japan’s coast guard and military are helping the Navy battle a blaze that broke out aboard an amphibious transport docking ship off Okinawa’s southeastern coast on Wednesday evening. “Crews are responding to a fire aboard USS New Orleans (LPD 18) this evening, Aug. 20, (Japan time) which is in the vicinity of Okinawa, Japan,” U.S. 7th Fleet wrote in an unsigned statement emailed to Stars and Stripes.

In 2019, China’s military showcased a hypersonic ballistic missile reportedly capable of breaching existing anti-missile shields. The question facing U.S. strategic planners ever since has been simple but daunting. How do you stop weapons that fast, unpredictable, and affordable enough to be produced at scale?One increasingly popular answer is the Pentagon’s ambitious Golden Dome initiative. It would leverage orbiting interceptors and sensors to destroy missiles (ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and even drones) at different moments of flight.

What good is a tank if you can’t get the metals to build it?This week’s meeting between U.S., Ukrainian, and European leaders showed potential progress towards security cooperation. And while the new U.S.-Ukrainian Reconstruction Investment Fund agreement marks an important step toward increasing the resilience of both U.S. and European supply chains, there is more work to be done. Building on this momentum, the United States and the European Union should seek closer critical minerals supply chain cooperation.

The Russian Aerospace Forces were confirmed on August 21 to have received a new batch of Su-35S fighter aircraft, at a time when deliveries to new clients outside Russia have been increasingly widely speculated. Commenting on the delivery of the latest batch of Su-35s, executive director of Rostec Oleg Yevtushenko reported: “The aviation plants of Rostec maintain a high production rate of aircraft under the state defence order.