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By October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was on the defensive. Allied forces in the Pacific had pushed back the gains Japan made in the years following its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Most of the Marianas were captured as other island strongholds had been bypassed and isolated. American and Australian ships were headed for the Philippines.
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Japan’s Navy, desperate to show the Americans it could still fight (and thus prevent an invasion of the Japanese home islands), went all-in at Leyte Gulf.

A “sonic thump” may not have the same awesomeness factor as a sonic boom, but it still has the right stuff. And like it or not, it’s the new standard in supersonic flight. NASA’s Quesst mission (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) is demonstrating the ability to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without generating the sonic booms that come with breaking the sound barrier.

The Russian Armed Forces have made effective use of the BuK-M3 medium range surface-to-air missile system to defend against strikes by Ukrainian forces launched using the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), with Russia’s Battlegroup Centre having recently used them to intercept attacks from distances of over 30 kilometres. “During combat duty, air surveillance posts and radar systems detected an aerial target. The data was promptly transmitted to the Buk-M3 unit’s crew.