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An intriguing photo has appeared on social media showing what looks to be a fighter-sized tailless aircraft concept out of China. Provided the photo is legitimate, and that it does represent some kind of future fighter concept or related demonstrator, it would add to the weight of evidence that suggests that China has indeed focused on a tailless configuration for its sixth-generation fighter jet, or that a design of this kind is at least under intensive study.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp reaffirmed his commitment to supporting the values of the West via his company’s algorithmic intelligence software on Wednesday, telling any current or prospective employees who don’t support that mission: “Don’t work here.”
Asked by David Rubenstein, co-chairman of private equity firm the Carlyle Group, during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about the tension many major tech companies face from “left-leaning” employees when working with the U.S.
“It’s just a damn mess — full of old bookkeeping errors and typos,” historian Hal Barker told the New York Times. He and his brother Edward maintain the Korean War Project, an information database that keeps the history of the Korean War. They say the newest addition to the Korean War Memorial has thousands of spelling errors, typos and unrelated names.
In 2022, the Korean War Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
When you’re fighting a global conflict alongside two other countries, one of them get knocked out of the war, and the third suddenly has an existential threat introduced to it overnight, one might think you’d be a little bit worried about the future sustainability of your war effort. That was the situation Japan was in on June 6, 1944. Instead of showing concern about the future of the Axis Pact, its response was downright optimistic.
By June 1944, the war was not looking good for the Axis.
Longtime readers of We Are The Mighty are probably familiar with “Mad” Jack Churchil, the British officer who went into World War II combat with a Scotsman’s broadsword, bagpipes and even a longbow. What they may not know is that Nazi Germany had a Scottish enthusiast of their own. Lt. Gen. Ernst-Günther Baade first joined the German Army in World War I, but his World War II service really made an impression.
With Russia’s Severodvinsk-class subs in the Atlantic and Pacific, “there’ll be a dual-flank challenge for the United States,” a U.S. Navy admiral said.
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In 1943, at the height of World War II in Europe and beyond, two men met at a building overlooking the River Thames in the Westminster area of London. One of the men was Air Ministry engineer William Godfray de Lisle and the other was an officer of the British Combined Operations Department, Maj. Sir Malcolm Campbell. Campbell’s office oversaw raids on German positions throughout the European theater. De Lisle was there to show the officer a new weapon he’d designed. It was a .22-caliber rifle designed with an internal suppressor, supposedly one of the quietest weapons ever made.
Nearly a decade ago, the world was introduced to an inside look at the White House — one that only a presidential employee could convey. This took place when a former butler came out with a book outlining his time serving eight different presidential families; a tenure that lasted from President Truman to President Reagan.
The Butler, A Witness to History was written by historian and Washington Post writer, Wil Haygood. Haygood initially wrote an article in the Post, “A Butler Well Served by This Election,” which was later expanded.
Marine Sgt. Jason Frink was shown in a video getting into a physical altercation with hotel staff in San Diego. (Screenshot).
Marine Corps officials said they are looking into an incident caught on video in which a Marine can be seen shoving a hotel clerk and getting into a fight with a security guard in San Diego.
“We can confirm the Marine in the video is Sergeant Jason Frink, stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA,” said 1st Lt. Arthur Deal, a spokesman for I Marine Expeditionary Force. “The Marine Corps is still actively investigating the incident.
The U.S. and Japan have formally committed to collaboratively advancing specific emerging technologies for military use and linking their defense industrial bases as global supply chains remain strapped.
During a meeting at the Pentagon last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Japan’s Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada signed two bilateral arrangements aimed at driving that new cooperation between their nations in the near term.
Via a new legally-binding Memorandum of Understanding for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Projects (MOU for RDT&E), Japan and the U.S.