The war in Ukraine has entered its tenth month, and the Russian forces are running out of ammo. (Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Here. Check out More 19FortyFive Videos Here) In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of the Russian reserves, calling up approximately 300,000 men to arms. The influx of Russian […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted in December 2021. On Christmas Day, 1968, American families woke up to festooned houses and presents under the tree. But thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia, a small special operations team was fighting for its life. Part of a covert special operations organization, the Military Assistance Command […]
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From Tokyo Bay to the Persian Gulf – USS Missouri Was There – The United States of America officially may have entered the Second World War when President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the United States Congress on December 8, 1941, and asked for a declaration of war on the Empire of Japan – yet it had really begun […]
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39 Chinese fighter jets take off at once, ships dispatched: China-Taiwan tensions at peak, U.S. military accelerates in Pacific in attempt to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgRKaQVa5O4 The Biden administration calls China the most consequential strategic competitor for…
On March 31, 1992, the age of the battleship came to a final and complete end, with the decommissioning of the USS Missouri (BB-63), one of the United States Navy’s four Iowa-class vessels that had been constructed during the Second World War. The U.S. Navy had not only been the last operator of a true big-gun battleship, but it has the distinction […]
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Earlier this month, the Japanese government published its latest National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy documents, outlining how Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his advisers see Japan’s strategic surroundings and intend to manage them. The directives sound a stark and blunt note. For example, the National Security Strategy closes by declaring that “in no […]
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Both guns are U.S. Army classics. Which one is better? We went to the range to find out. Beretta M9 vs. SIG Sauer M17 A few months back, Yours Truly wrote separate articles on behalf of 19FortyFive telling the stories of the current and most recent past U.S. Armed Forces standard issue service pistols, the […]
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As the saying goes, “Speed is life.” But then there’s also the saying, “Speed kills.” When it comes to military aviation, both of these utterances have a degree of paradoxical truth. If the American SR-71 Blackbird – still the world’s fastest air-breathing aircraft – embodies the former mantra, then the Soviet-built MiG-25 “Foxbat” fits the […]
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Anti-submarine warfare capability, or ASW, is one of the U.S. Navy’s top priorities. After all, adversary submarines such as the Russian Typhoon class and Red China’s Type-093A Shang-II Class pose arguably the deadliest threat to American carriers. To counter the threat of silent submersible stalkers, the Navy continues to use an aerial platform that has […]
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There’s an old joke thrown around in, or perhaps it would more accurate to say “thrown at,” the U.S.. fighter pilot community that the difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn’t think he’s a fighter pilot. Be that as it may, if there’s any fighter pilot that does indeed elevate (bad […]
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