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Following Israel’s initiation of a large scale air offensive against Iran on June 13, and the United States’ active joining of the campaign nine days later using B-2 bombers and nuclear powered attack submarines, the capabilities of the Iranian Air Force’s fighter fleet has gained growing attention. Although Iran fields a particularly large fleet of close to 300 fighters, the

Operation Midnight Hammer saw B-2 Spirit stealth bombers fly from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri to strike nuclear facilities in Iran. The 37-hour round trip made it the second-longest bombing mission in history. But if you ain’t first, you’re last.
Luckily for the B-2’s record, it also flew the longest bombing mission over two decades earlier.
A B-2 Spirit at Whiteman AFB is prepared ahead of Operation Midnight Hammer (U.S.

New information on Iranian missile attacks on Israel launched over eleven days from June 13-24 has confirmed successful strikes on key infrastructure and military facilities according to an analysis of satellite data conducted at Oregon State University. Images confirmed hits on over 40 Israeli infrastructure facilities, as well as five major military bases across the country’s northern southern and central regions.

As early as the Cold War, Uncle Sam was investing funds in robot research to explore how the technology could be an advantage against the Soviet Union. In most cases, robots were thought to be a means of spying and gathering information on the enemy, rather than being used as a robot bomb or any other kind of weapon. A significant amount of funds was spent on research between then and the 1980s, totaling more than $1 million.
Meanwhile, there was not much to show for it.

U.S. Army soldiers who deployed to 14 countries in the U.S. Central Command and Africa Command areas of responsibility between October 2023 and June 2025 can now wear combat patches. The new policy, announced this week, expands the Army’s window of combat deployment and who is eligible to wear the patches. 
The new policy lets soldiers “assigned or attached to units supporting operations within the CENTCOM and AFRICOM countries listed” wear the Shoulder Sleeve Insignia for Military Operations in Hostile Conditions, or SSI-MOHC, better known as combat patches.

Comment about this article from STARRS Chairman Lt Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74:
Another win for STARRS, parents, cadets, those who love our nation and those we stood strong against the indoctrination efforts that were blatant in the last administration!
The article below is background on of some of STARRS activities–the subject matter has some STARRS fingerprints on it (we have assisted MMA grads and parents who were incensed with the DEI invasion at their school as we were at ours.) The article details the success of our (“collective we” as I call it) efforts.