Aircraft shelters with varying degrees of hardening are seeing a renaissance of sorts in response to growing drone and missile threats. China alone has built over 400 new hardened aircraft shelters across various bases in recent years, not to mention many other shelters offering lower tiers of protection. This trend is being seen in other countries like Russia, North Korea, and Iran. At the same time, a debate is now heating up between the U.S. military and Congress about the value of building new defensive infrastructure for its aircraft.
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Today’s geopolitical tensions make digital interoperability among foreign allies paramount. But with the U.S.’s adversaries growing in size and technological complexity, our threat landscape demands even more than just interoperability. To effectively address today’s challenges and realize the impact of true Combined Joint All-Domain and Control (CJADC2), the U.S. and its allies and partners must strive for total seamless digital integration.
For a majority of middle-class Americans, including servicemembers and veterans, owning a primary residence is a major investment that will typically provide a majority of their net worth through the decades. There’s a good reason for this, as a well-situated and maintained property builds generational wealth through increasing equity. Simply put, the equity of your home is its market value, minus the amount remaining on your loan.
Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne during a 2021 all-female flight and airborne operation, in which two C-17s flown and crewed by women dropped almost 200 female paratroopers at then-Fort Bragg, NC. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Rachel Pye.
More than 53,000 women veterans enrolled in healthcare provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, or VA, between May 2023 and May 2024, the largest enrollment for women veterans on record, the VA announced on Wednesday to mark Women Veterans Recognition Day.
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Not all of us have the freedom to choose when we need a new car. As we say in the military, Murphy always gets a vote. Maybe a new addition to your family means you want a few more seats. A better job requires a truck with towing capacity that your old road warrior can’t handle. Regardless of why you’re in the market, buying a car is a large life event, and the process can be convoluted, stressful, and often unnecessarily expensive.
The Yasen-M class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine Kazan, one of the most advanced types in Russian Navy service today, has now made its hotly anticipated debut appearance in the Cuban capital Havana. Kazan is one of a group of four Russian naval vessels now in the Caribbean, which had been closely shadowed by U.S. and allied warships and aircraft.
Footage of the arrival of the Russian Project 22350 frigate “Admiral Gorshkov” and the Project 885M Yasen-M class nuclear-powered cruise missile carrying submarine Kazan at the port of Havana, Republic of Cuba. pic.twitter.
In a highly surprising development, Argentina is said to be working out a plan to transfer French-made Super Etendard naval strike aircraft to Ukraine. Still in its early phases, the unlikely proposal has reportedly been approved by Argentinian President Javier Milei but will still need support from France to progress further. Should it be successful, the result would be Ukraine taking delivery of a combat-proven aircraft known for its anti-surface-warfare capability, thanks to the Exocet anti-ship missile. On the other hand, these are old, subsonic jets that exist in very small numbers.
On Monday, the United Nations Security Council passed a U.S.-backed resolution calling for an “immediate, full and complete ceasefire” in Gaza, which the United States says Israel has agreed to. The resolution lays out a three-phased approach to peace, beginning with a six-week ceasefire and the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, then a full return of Israeli hostages in return for a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and ending with a plan for the reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave. Despite passage by the Security Council, however, many obstacles remain.
The Liberian bulk carrier Tutor was struck by a Houthi uncrewed surface vessel (USV) while transiting the Red Sea, the first such successful strike since the Yemen-based rebel group began attacking shipping in the region, an official with the Ambrey maritime security firm told The War Zone.
“It’s a dead ship now,” Joshua Hutchinson, Ambrey’s Managing Director of Risk and Intelligence confirmed to The War Zone. “Salvage operations are required.
Hollywood works hard to produce great movies, there’s no doubt about that. Plenty of industry professionals are working around the clock, 7 days per week, to provide top-shelf entertainment to the masses. And while (most) studios try their best to depict military tactics as accurately as possible, they often fall short. One area in particular where they always seem to get things wrong is urban combat — specifically, the most fundamental component: clearing buildings.