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The Coast Guard intercepted $17.5 million worth of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea, and then lit the smuggling vessel on fire — and it’s all on video!
The operation resulted in a seizure of 604 kilograms of cocaine and involved Coast Guard members from the USCGC Venturous, a Coast Guard medium endurance cutter stationed in St. Petersburg, Florida. A video of the October 2022 interdiction was posted to the Coast Guard’s official Instagram account earlier this month.
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Maj. Gen. Thomas Hensley was nominated by President Joe Biden to lead the Air Force’s information warfare command, the Pentagon announced Friday.
Hensley is currently the deputy commander of 16th Air Force, the service’s integrated information warfare entity, which encompasses cyber, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, electromagnetic spectrum operations and weather, among others. It serves as the service component to U.S. Cyber Command and the cryptologic component to the National Security Agency conducting signals intelligence.
Out of the embers of deadly fire, new life can blossom. Retired Army CW3 Jon. W. Ganues, has devoted his life to talking about mental health, suicide prevention and remembering his son.
In 2009, Airman Jon “Wesley” Ganues, Jr. was less than a week away from deploying to Iraq with his unit attached to Moody Air Force Base when he took his life. He was just 22 years old. Editor’s note: If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org.
“As a child, Richard was inquisitive, comical and loved entertaining or making people laugh. He also loved being outside, building projects and hanging out in the water at the beach and anything to do with animals and sea creatures,” Carla Stumpf Patton (surviving spouse) shared. “He was also fascinated by magic and would love to mystify people with various illusions and magic tricks.”
The two fell in love at just 15 years old and dated throughout high school. Stumpf enlisted as a Marine after his graduation in 1988.
The Belgian Army continue to rapidly expand its artillery capabilities as the service looks to induct 150mm Caesar and 120mm Griffon systems.
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, the fourth and final Type 218SG boat for the Republic of Singapore Navy, was named at Kiel yard on 22 April 2024. With a length of about 70 m and a displacement of around 2,000 tonnes, the Type 218SG is the largest submarine built by thyssenkrupp Marine Systems to date.
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German shipbuilder thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH (tkMS) lays claim to be the world’s most successful exporter of submarines in the post-war period.
The Dutch MoD has leased a second ro-ro ship, named MV
Southern Rock
, which will be operated by the RNLN to secure strategic transport on a more permanent basis.
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The Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) has officially put into service a second roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ship, which it has leased from a private company as part of efforts to secure strategic transport on a permanent basis.
Indonesia was supposed to receive its fourth and fifth (and final) C-130J-30s in January 2024. In this January 2024 picture is the first C-130J-30 received by Indonesia (serial no A-1339), which arrived in Indonesia on 6 March 2023. (Eko Siswono Toyudho/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU) has announced that it has received its fifth and final Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Super Hercules.
“The fifth C-130J-30 (with tail number A-1342) has arrived at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base in Jakarta,” the Indonesian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on 16 May.
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Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 stealth fighter won’t be able to fly its most advanced missions until 2025 because of delays to a problem-plagued $1.
Poland now has all 24 of the TB2 UAVs it ordered from Türkiye, operating them across four systems based at the 12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base at Mirosławiec. (Polish MND)
Poland has received the last of 24 Baykar Bayraktar TB2 armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Türkiye.
The Polish Armaments Agency (AA) announced the milestone on 16 May, saying that the last four unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), each comprising six UAVs, had been received into the 12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Base at Mirosławiec on the same day.