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Australia demonstrated its first directed energy weapon, the Fractl Portable High Energy Laser, in a ‘hard kill’ test agains a drone at 500m.

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In Vietnam, on March 12, 1970, U.S. Army Sgt. Mitchell William Stout grabbed an enemy grenade thrown into his bunker and used his body to shield the blast from his fellow soldiers….

Army Technology
The U.S. Army’s bid to upgrade the Stryker’s firepower resulted in hardware and software issues impacting production.

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ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA (AP) — The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world’s waterways.

Alexa Mae Asperin, Fox 11 Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES – The House of Representatives passed a measure on Friday automatically registering men aged 18 to 26 for selective…

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USNS Cherokee Nation will be the second Navajo-class vessel to enter service in the U.S. Navy.

David Craig, Small Wars Journal And so, “River City” is an apt fit for the title of John Waters’ novel, River City One (Simon and Schuster, 2023).

Iran’s “election circus” — as it is known in Farsi — is in full swing with a total of six candidates being approved by the supreme leader-controlled vetting body, the Guardian Council. These six have not held back in backstabbing each other, and the knives will be on full display in the coming weeks. Indeed, this circus is being tacitly encouraged by the regime in order to give create the illusion of political competition in their authoritarian system. But behind the scenes, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has already laid out his expectations.

An MV-22 Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 166, in Kuwait, Sept 24, 2020. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Andrew Skiver.
It will be a year until the U.S. military’s V-22 Ospreys are allowed to carry out their full range of operations. The nearly 400 Ospreys used by several military branches will continue to operate with restrictions and limitations until root causes behind several fatal crashes are resolved, the head of U.S. Naval Air Systems Command announced this past week.
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Host L Todd Wood speaks with Yifa Segal, the former chief of staff to the Israeli Ambassador to the US, on the situation on the ground in The Jewish State.
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