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On New Year’s Eve, Russia launched its own kind of Blitz over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Swarms of Iranian-built suicide drones, upgraded by Russian engineers for increased accuracy and lethality, slammed into targets across the city and across the country itself. Civilians sought shelter and information from Telegram channels. Ukrainian troops manned their guns. 
But which guns could be capable of downing an unmanned vehicle, just 11 feet long, coming at them from high altitudes at more than 115 miles per hour? Germany had the answer, and donated them to Ukraine’s armed forces.

Call of Duty and other first-person shooters like it have dominated the video game market for the better part of the 21st century. Despite common critiques of recycled gameplay, mindless action and 2-dimensional storytelling, Call of Duty remains one of the most popular video game franchises in the world. However, it can trace its roots back to more humble and well-meaning intentions. In fact, Call of Duty can be traced back to the modern cinematic classic Saving Private Ryan.

Even when it comes to presidents, most people think dogs and cats when they consider pets. Sure, there are birds, rabbits, or even something more exotic, like a lizard. But rarely do we think about raccoons. No matter how rare its existence may have been, that’s the exact pet that Calvin Coolidge had while serving as president. 
He and his wife, first lady, Grace Coolidge, kept Rebecca, a raccoon from Mississippi from 1926 through his term, ending in 1929. 
However, Rebecca wasn’t intended to be a pet. She was intended to be a meal. Or so political lore would have us believe.

V-J Day in Times Square is perhaps one of the most well-known photos from all of World War II. You’ve likely seen it, even if you haven’t realized you’ve seen it – a portrait where a sailor gives a passionate kiss to a nurse in a white uniform. There are sailors, pedestrians, and tall buildings behind them, as the pair celebrates victory over Japan. 
The epic picture was taken on August 14, 1945. 
The picture was captured by Alfred Eisenstaedt, who became a famous photographer. (He landed the cover of Life with his pictures an incredible 90 times.

The F-35 is getting a new, much more powerful radar based on a technology also found on the newest iPhone chargers.
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As the Army is preparing to lock in the design architecture to experiment with the next phase of its tactical network this spring, it will focus on the division holistically for the first time.
The Army has adopted a multiyear strategy involving the incremental development and delivery of new capabilities to its integrated tactical network, involving a combination of program-of-record systems and commercial off-the-shelf tools. Those “capability sets” now provide technologies to units every two years, each building upon the previous delivery.

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South Korea’s president has said that his country might build nuclear weapons in response to the continuing buildup of similar weapons in North Korea. This is the most explicit announcement so far from Seoul that it’s actively considering nuclear weapons, although the disclosure is also very likely calculated to pressure the United States into giving Seoul a role in nuclear war planning on the peninsula, and perhaps also to redeploy U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea, the last of these having being withdrawn in 1991.

The Navy’s new medical ships are designed for easy movement and rapid response in environments like the Pacific Ocean.
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The military aid has already made its way to the Danab Special Forces Brigade which is leading Somalia’s fight against al-Shabaab.
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By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
 
Looking at the title and header image one might easily be led to conclude that we’ve gotten the aircraft type wrong for this particular article. Where is the characteristic fully glazed cockpit everyone has come to know the Heinkel He 111 for, one might ask.* Nonetheless, this aircraft too is a German-made Heinkel He 111. In fact, it’s one of 24 aircraft of the type delivered to the Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri) in late 1937 and early 1938.