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Elbit Systems UK provided its Recce Strike Training System to support British Army live virtual constructive training exercises.

Pilots and crews of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing returned home Sunday from a deployment that began before last Christmas and sent the unit into combat in two hemispheres.
The extended stint away from home for the F-35 unit included a rare back-to-back redeployment from one combat theater to another, first in operations in the Caribbean and South America and then directly to the Middle East.
The final deployed members of the wing arrived home Sunday in Burlington. An earlier group returned in early August, according to photos released by the 158th.

The Australian government has announced a A$2.4bn ($1.7bn) investment aimed at modernising the country’s air and missile defence systems.

“The Fix” has everything you could ever ask for from a Hollywood action-thriller: good guys versus bad guys, small arms combat, explosions, and a brotherhood of special operators coming together for one last, high-stakes, do-or-die mission deep inside enemy territory that will have you tearing through a bucket of popcorn.
What it also shows is an entire genre of military action movies slowly transitioning away from the Global War on Terror to what might be Hollywood’s new “big bad” guy—Iran.

There was much more activity overnight in the war in Iran, as the U.S.S, reacting to what they claimed was an attempt to attack one of their warships, struck five Iranian oil tankers. After that, Iran retaliated by firing missiles at Jordan.

U.S. Central Command issued a statement about the exchanges of fire, which included video of one of the tanker explosions. CENTCOM stated that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted a Naval warship with ballistic missiles twice in two days, although neither ship was struck, and no American personnel were harmed.

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Russian drones and missiles struck Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, on Tuesday, reportedly killing five people and wounding around 30 others. The attack, which targeted a number of civilian, non-military sites, came just after American envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, departed Ukraine.

The strikes marked a definitive end to the temporary three-day ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv that had been in place during Witkoff and Kushner’s visit to Kyiv.

The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office is piloting a new “shared savings” contract model with venture studio Red Cell Partners that marks a clear pivot from long-standing traditional government buying structures.
This unique agreement for AI assets is designed to demonstrate a contracting framework where vendors are paid only for the costs they eliminate and the outcomes they deliver for the Defense Department, officials from the agency and venture firm revealed on Tuesday. 
The work will unfold via an Other Transaction Authority deal worth up to $100 million in the first year.

More than 80 military occupations are now designated as combat arms and require a combat field test be completed in addition to their standard service fitness test.
The Department of Defense’s physical fitness and body composition policy, which was updated on Aug. 31, lists Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force jobs that fall under the new requirements. They include soldiers in infantry and Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Marine Raiders, Air Force pararescuemen and dozens of other occupations.

How does a retired U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant go from serving his country to weighing 424 pounds?
Jason Bush likely posed that question to himself countless times as the scale told no lies. It began when injuries slowed him down during the tail end of his military career. After he transitioned to the civilian world, Bush admittedly ate poorly and didn’t exercise much. That combination of factors, among others, caused him to put on excess weight—lots of it.
He realized something had to change in late 2020 and early 2021.

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer transits the Persian Gulf. Photo: U.S. Navy / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
U.S. Central Command confirmed Tuesday that American forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in the latest round of retaliatory strikes in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman – the most significant single naval engagement of the ongoing conflict with Tehran.
CENTCOM confirmed the four tankers destroyed in the Gulf of Oman were M/T Kaviz, M/T Charminar, M/T Horizon 1, and M/T Riesco.