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During the Cold War, U.S. Special Operations Forces accepted extreme levels of operational risk during routine training exercises. The Green Light teams, for instance, would practice parachuting into “enemy territory” with live Small Atomic Demolition Munitions. Today, however, the tactical risks of modern special operations missions to rescue American citizens or capture terrorists pale in […]
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The Heckler & Koch P7, which used to be called the PSP for “Polizei Selbstlader Pistole,” has a powerful round but is small enough to fit in a pocket or holster. Because of this, the breech must be locked, and gas pressure is a good way to do this. Usually, a recoil spring is under the slide, and a guide rod is inside the spring.
This guide rod, however, has been precisely machined, and it slides within a cylinder that fits snugly in the frame just above the trigger as the slide recoils.
The obsolete J-7 fighter jet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), which has been flying for several decades and has been produced in various variants, will finally be withdrawn from service this year.
China started to retire the J-7 as early as 2018. However, Chinese experts have opined that the aircraft could be withdrawn entirely from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force this year.
The reason is the increasing production of sophisticated fighters in China. The J-7, based on the Soviet MiG-21, made its first flight in China in 1966.
An artist’s rendering of the SEWIP Block 3 EA subsystem installed on a DDG-51 destroyer. (Northrop Grumman)
Northrop Grumman is preparing to conduct a new round of sea trials of its prototype electronic attack (EA) system for the US Navy, building upon the lessons learned from the system’s last live demonstration carried out during the sea service’s Rim of the Pacific’ (RIMPAC) exercises in the summer of 2022.
A few years ago, the staff at USAA (a financial services company formally known as United Services Automobile Association) kept hearing the same question: “Do You Offer Small Business Insurance?”
So, in January 2021, USAA gave its members what they wanted and created coverage available in 30 states underwritten by USAA.
Traditionally focused on providing military members and their families with personal lines of insurance, such as auto, life and home policies, USAA began helping people in 1922.
Reversal comes as Congress considers bill seeking redress for military’s discharged vaccine refuseniks.
The United States Military Academy is reimposing restrictions on unvaccinated cadets despite the lifting of the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, reports military attorney R. Davis Younts, a reversal that comes even as Congress mulls legislation seeking redress for service members dismissed for vaccine refusal.
The Department of Defense rescinded the military vaccine mandate pursuant to the Dec.
Lockheed Martin
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force have completed the Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program with a final flight test that involved Lockheed Martin’s design. DARPA is already planning to use the data gathered throughout HAWC’s development over the years to inform a follow-on program called More Opportunities with HAWC (MoHAWC) that will aim to demonstrate a capability that is another step closer to an operational hypersonic weapon.
Ukrainian Air Force
Pictures of what looks to be the relatively intact remains of a downed Russian Kh-101 air-launched cruise missile offer an unusually clear view of some of its features. This includes a look at what appears to be the camera for its Otblesk-U electro-optical guidance system and what may be some kind of countermeasures system.
The Kh-101 in question was reportedly shot down by Ukraine’s forces in the country’s central Vinnytsia region on January 26, according to a Facebook post from the Ukrainian Air Force.
Football and the military are closely tied. While playing an NFL season is certainly not the same as a military deployment, certain qualities like leadership, discipline and determination carry over from the football field to the battlefield. Just look at the careers of Army and Navy Heisman winners and Vietnam veterans Gen. Pete Dawkins and Roger Staubach. Recognizing the sacrifices made by the military, NFL players and teams can use their earnings and fame to show great support to the military community.