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The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), detailed plans to bolster Nato industrial capacity, expressing solidarity with Ukraine.

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For years following the Cold War, the United States was considered the sole superpower and the U.S.

Naval News
The Rhode Island production facility will enable Anduril to increase production to 200 AUVs per year and create more than 100 jobs over the next five years.

Stephen Losey, Defense News
The Senate’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act would leave the military’s planned purchases of 68 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in fiscal 2025…

A. Capaccio, Bloomberg
The U.S. military is unlikely to deliver its first hypersonic weapons in enough quantities to be combat-ready until the fiscal year that begins Oct.

Dakota Wood, RCD
The U.S. Marine Corps has been developing solutions to the China problem.

Vietnam has been busy. In recent months, it has exponentially expanded the size of several features it controls in the Spratly Islands, including Barque Canada Reef, Namyit Island, Pearson Reef, and Discovery Great Reef. China appears to have allowed these expansion efforts to occur largely unmolested. And yet, elsewhere in the Spratlys at Second Thomas Shoal, Beijing is preventing the Philippines from supplying food, water, and limited building supplies to the handful of Filipino personnel on the Sierra Madre, a Philippine Navy ship grounded at the shoal in 1999.

War heroes can emerge from plenty of unexpected places, and that includes kennels, lofts, and stables. Here are seven awesome war heroes who didn’t let being an animal get in the way of winning human conflicts.
1. The pigeon who saved 194 American lives after being shot through the chest
Cher Ami as she is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum. Photo: US Army Signal Corps
Cher Ami was a messaging pigeon serving in the Argonne Forest with the 77th Infantry Division when the battalion of 550 soldiers she was with was completely cut off by German forces.

The A-10 Thunderbolt II is often lovingly referred to as the “grunt of the skies,” alluding to the nickname given to U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps infantry troops. If the A-10 is the Air Force’s grunt, then its pilots are gonna need some things broken down “Barney-style” – that is to say, into as few basic instructions as possible.
Have no fear, the U.S. Air Force did just that for pilots who might have encountered the Soviet Union’s T-62 main battle tank. In order to teach the grunts of the sky how to take one of them down, the Air Force issued this marvelous coloring book.

U.S. Navy Boatswains Mates assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1 prepare a U.S. Navy Improved Navy Lighterage System Causeway Ferry for on-loading during Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore 2016 (JLOTS ’16) June 13, 2016 on Naval Magazine Indian Island, Wash. JLOTS ’16 is a joint service, scenario based exercise designed to simulate disaster and humanitarian assistance in the Cascadia subduction zone. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Kenneth Norman).