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The Navy is completing a milestone decision on the nuclear sea-launched cruise missile in Fiscal Year 2026 with delivery expected in 2034
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America’s aircraft carriers will now be defended by Raytheon’s Coyote and Anduril’s Roadrunner-M interceptors
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Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to demonstrate how past lessons about strategy, operations, and tactics apply to current defense challenges.
The U.S. Army’s rapid response unit in Europe is working quickly to build out its own arsenal of small, agile first-person view drones. The 173rd Airborne Brigade recently opened its own drone lab so that soldiers can build, train with and stockpile the tiny aerial machines that are becoming a fixture of the modern battlefield.
The lab, set up at the 173rd’s base in Caserma Del Din, Italy, is operated by soldiers from the brigade and the 414th Contracting Support Brigade.
The Air Force’s search and rescue field is losing a veteran service member. A decorated member of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, Callie retired after six years of service. Yes, Callie is a dog. A dog with years of experiennoce and several deployments.
Callie quietly retired earlier this year, but the Air National Guard released more details on the dog’s service and farewell ceremony this weekend.
Michael Yon Substack
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Pakistan-India “skirmish” is molting into actual war.
What is world war? Naturally, we might think of The Great War (later called World War I), and World War II.
These World Wars brought all the major players into high levels of commitment. Many countries were all-in. Do or die. Many countries died.
The land and seas are still there. The tides still come and go, rivers still flow. Borders were redrawn and many oligarchical structures were shattered. People who may have thought they were invincible were soon dead.
Active duty female soldiers in combat roles will be required to run up to three minutes faster than they previously had to in the annual fitness test.
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All soldiers can expect to do more push-ups, and women in combat jobs will have to pick up the pace in a two-mile run as much as three minutes faster, under the Army’s new fitness requirements.
“There are a couple of age brackets where your minimum run time, you might have to run about 30 seconds faster in order to pass. There are a couple of areas where you’ve got to do more hand-release push-ups,” Command Sgt.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the existing West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus to become a “National Center for Warrior Independence” that would house thousands of homeless veterans.
The order, “Keeping Promises to Veterans and Establishing a National Center for Warrior Independence,” directs VA Secretary Doug Collins to create a plan within 120 days that would allow the West Los Angeles VA campus to house up to 6,000 veterans by Jan. 1, 2028.