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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the Department of the Air Force to pause its sweeping reorganization effort until Congress approves new leadership under the Trump administration, according to a DAF spokesperson.
The directive — first reported by Air and Space Forces Magazine — was issued Thursday and effectively puts several plans under the so-called Reoptimizing for Great Power Competition already in motion on hold, including work on standing up an Integrated Capabilities Command and Space Futures Command.

On March 8, 1862, a large, slow-moving and unwieldy Confederate ship steamed toward the blockading Union vessels posted at Hampton Roads, outside of Virginia’s James River. The rebels made a beeline for the sloops USS Cumberland and USS Congress. As the rebel vessel approached, the Cumberland fired into it, but the cannon fire bounced harmlessly off the rebel ship’s ironclad hull. 
It was the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, and before the day was done, it would ram the Cumberland, sinking it.

Female service members are more committed and more likely to recommend service to a young family member than their male counterparts, according to a recent study. 
The 2024 Military Family Lifestyle Survey conducted by Blue Star Families  – a non-profit founded in 2009 to help support military families – showed that on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being very likely), female respondents averaged 5.42 when asked if they would recommend service while males averaged 4.46.

Specifically, the US State Department outlined a plan to pursue “shadow fleet vessels and management companies that transported Iranian oil.

The French MoD has confirmed an order placement for procurement of 530 Serval 4×4 wheeled armoured vehicles for the French Army.

Saab has concluded the year 2024 on a robust note, surpassing anticipated levels in organic sales expansion, and more.

Upon taking office, the Biden administration fired all of the Trump-appointed service academy board of visitor members. The move was challenged to no avail by graduates concerned about the Marxist takeover of our nation’s military officer training institutions.
That move has just been reversed by President Trump.
AFP and STARRS.us, as well as other America First service academy alumni groups have worked hard for this day.
Hoo rah!

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Defense contractor L3Harris is developing an ambitious effort to control thousands of autonomous systems at the same time through a single user interface.
Much work remains, however. Company officials noted that in live testing, the firm has experimented with fewer than 100 platforms to date, although they hope to soon begin expanding that.
The technology, dubbed Autonomous Multidomain Operations Resiliency Platform for Heterogenous Unmanned Swarms (AMORPHOUS), gets at some of the difficult challenges the Defense Defense is trying to tackle as it relates to autonomy.

During the height of the Cold War, the U.S. military and atomic scientists decided to fire some nuclear rockets into space. The goal wasn’t to see how much damage the nuclear explosions could do — by the early 1960s the military had enough nuclear weapons and enough understanding of their explosive potential — but rather to study the side effects of a nuclear explosion. And the result accidentally caused a massive crimson aurora visible hundreds of miles away from the launch site.
The U.S. military had carried out several nuclear tests throughout the 1950s.

Ukraine is claiming the landmark destruction of 10,000 Russian tanks since February 2022, although independent verification is impossible.