A drone attack launched by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) on a Russian airbase in Crimea on August 4 has damaged multiple fighter aircraft, and destroyed at least one Su-30SM fighter. “As a result of the strike on the airfield, a stockpile of aviation munitions was hit. A Su-30SM fighter jet was completely destroyed, another was damaged. Additionally, three Su-24 bombers were struck,” a report from the agency stated. The extent of damage to other fighters remains unknown, although the possibility remains significant that more than one fighter was destroyed.
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This is Chapter 4 in our Mighty MilSpouse Retirement Memoir, a monthly series written in real-time by military spouse Lindsay Swoboda. Read Chapter 1: Now What, Chapter 2: Don’t Stay for the Comfort, and 3. Help is On the Way
I remember how the bleachers stuck to my thighs, and a bead of sweat dripped down the middle of my back as Ryan and I sat under the bright San Diego sun. His rough thumb traced circles over my hand as we sat together, watching a retirement ceremony unfold on Camp Pendleton.
By Diana Stancy | Fox News
The Secretary of the Army has ordered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to restore the school’s crest on the Bibles at the West Point Cadet Chapel, reversing a Biden-era decision to not include the crest when replacing the Bibles.
“Since the founding of West Point and before, generations of cadets, officers, and Soldiers have drawn strength and inspiration from God’s word,” Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital.
The U.S. Air Force ordered a service-wide safety inspection of every single one of its M18 pistols after one discharged and killed an airman last month at an Air Force base.
The decision, announced late last week, came more than a week after Airman Brayden Lovan was killed in an incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base involving a M18. Lovan, 21, died July 20 after a M18 pistol discharged. Lovan, who served with the 90th Security Forces Squadron, 90th Security Forces Group, at the Wyoming air base, was identified by the Air Force four days later. The incident is currently under investigation.
Sudan’s Military Industry Corporation has unveiled the new Safaroog single use attack drone, making it the latest of a small number of countries and the first in Africa to produce such aircraft. This type of aircraft has gained considerable publicity for its role in the Russian-Ukrainain War, after Russia procured the Iranian Shahed 136, and subsequently produced it under license as the Geran-2. Compared to Russian and Iranian models, the Sudanese aircraft has the advantage of a modular payload, allowing it to be specially configured depending on the nature of the target.
A Chinese J-10C ‘4+ generation’ fighter has been credited with achieving a simulated shootdown of a J-20 fifth generation fighter during air-to-air combat exercises, according to reports from multiple Chinese state media outlets. J-10C pilot Xiao Nan was operating with support from a KJ-500 Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C), which carries one of the largest and most powerful airborne radars in the world, to provide greater situational awareness against stealth targets, thereby evening the odds against the J-20 which has advanced radar evading capabilities.
The U.S. Navy identified the sailor from the USS George Washington who went missing in the Timor Sea earlier this week.
On Friday, Aug. 1, the Navy announced that Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Launch/ Recovery Equipment) Airman Jose Antonio Rivera Lynch IV was declared dead. He went missing during a training exercise on Monday, July 28 and is believed to have gone overboard. He was 19.
The USS George Washington, as part of Carrier Strike Group 5, is currently operating in the Indian Ocean as part of the Talisman Sabre 2025 bilateral exercise with Australia.
Security forces at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base shot and killed a civilian who attempted to illegally enter the base in a car late at night yesterday.
The incident happened at approximately 2:30 a.m. on Friday morning when a car approached the main gate at the northern side of the base in Tuscon, Arizona. According to a release from the 355th Wing shared with Task & Purpose, the car was moving erratically and the driver failed to identify themselves as they got to base security. The car then crashed into a deployed vehicle barrier, stopping its advance.
The U.S. Air Force is relocating nearly three dozen F-16 fighter jets in South Korea in order to beef up its air power closer to the north.
At the end of July, F-16s based out of Kunsan Air Base began moving to Osan Air Base, several dozen miles north, closer to the demilitarized zone with North Korea. 31 F-16s based out of Kunsan Air Base will shift to Osan Air Base, creating a new “super squadron” at the base.
No one ever told you, but there really are three phases of becoming a milspouse. You’re probably already showing up like this in the group chat. But here’s the thing: Even if you don’t love the group chat, even if you don’t admit it’s pinned to the top, we know you’re already one of us.
Everyone thinks they’re different at first. You show up to your first duty station with a carry-on full of ambition and exactly zero intention of becoming “that spouse.” You’ve got a career. You don’t wear red, white, and blue in the same outfit. You don’t even own a Cricut.