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With declining numbers, delays to replacement platforms, and the prospect of further cuts, the British Army’s decline continues in 2025.

A historic Marine infantry battalion, whose regimental colors were burned prior to their capture during World War II and was then reforged from one of the Corps’ first Marine Raider units, will be remade again as part of the Marine Corps’ force structure changes that focus on China and the Pacific.
On Friday, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines will hold a redesignation ceremony at Camp Pendleton, California, so that the unit can become part of the 12th Littoral Combat Team, said Capt. Kristine Doan, a spokesperson with the 1st Marine Division.

Advanced adversaries are acquiring intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities and other tools that will make it easier to locate American troops. To counter that, U.S. special operations forces need to hone their ability to achieve “security through obscurity” on “hyper-transparent battlefields,” officials say.
During the post-9/11 Global War on Terror, U.S. commandos squared off against relatively low-tech adversaries.

Armed with a three-and-a-half-foot-long bamboo stick with a slit cut on one end, a 14-inch World War II Japanese bayonet, and a silenced .38 Special revolver pistol, Nicholas “Nick” Sanza was deep underground in the Viet Cong tunnel system. He was wearing the same black pajamas of his enemy, strictly ate their food, and used their skills to hear in the dark what his eyes could not see. 
“I was a tunnel rat. Some of the tunnels I went down were close to 60 feet down,” Sanza told Task & Purpose. 
Sanza joined the Army after high school, carrying on a family military tradition.

An F-16 from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, dropped an external tank on Tuesday, but no one on the ground was injured, an Air Force spokesperson confirmed.
The incident took place about 11 a.m. and the fuel pod landed in the city of Niceville, Florida, a spokesperson for Eglin Air Force Base said. No physical damage was reported.
No information about why the F-16 dropped the fuel tank or what unit it was assigned to was immediately available. The matter is under investigation, the Eglin spokesperson said.

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BISim has initiated a strategic partnership with Rheinmetall to advance the creation of advanced simulation solutions for military training.

MBDA completed the acquisition of Roxel, bringing the company into its European defence conglomerate by purchasing the remaining 50%.

A senior UK MoD official has confirmed that testing of exhaust emissions of in-service helicopters has begun this month.

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President-elect threatens to hit Denmark with high tariffs if officials there don’t cooperate with his bid for Greenland.