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A shot of the Darkstar from the new ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ movie. (Image via YouTube).

Joseph Kosinski went through a lot of work to make Top Gun: Maverick. He had to recapture some of the magic of the first film and bring back beloved characters all while balancing the new, more serious tone the script demanded. His journey took him to aircraft carriers and other locations. And he got too close to the Navy’s secrets.
Talking to Deadline about the making of the film, Kosinski discussed working with Val Kilmer, stunts and having the actors in the planes filming themselves.

Host L Todd Wood discusses the latest in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Lt Col “Lou” Michaels (USAF, Ret) will join; he is a former instructor at the USAF Special Operations School and Russia expert.

IO Episode 155 – DoD Vax Mandate – Can Members Sue Military?
BREAKING: DOD CONTROLLED COVID ‘VACCINES’ FROM THE START UNDER NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM – LIED THE ENTIRE TIME – Were NEVER ‘Safe and Effective’

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(U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Sarah Cherry).

Veterans in a mental health crisis will now be able to access free mental health care from the Department of Veterans of Affairs, regardless of whether or not they are enrolled in VA benefits. Starting Tuesday, Jan. 17, veterans will be able to access this emergency suicide care at both VA and non-VA healthcare facilities.  
The VA is also expanding eligibility for the free care. The VA estimates this will increase care to as many as nine million veterans who aren’t signed up for VA benefits.

Host L Todd Wood speaks with Attorneys Col Tom Rempfer (USAF, Ret) and Lt Col “Lou” Michaels (USAF, Ret) on developments with the military vaccine mandate, the consequences, and restoration of member careers.
This video is part of the series Information Operation.
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The long-awaited intelligence report on unidentified phenomena is finally out, and hundreds more cases have been documented. On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence presented the Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) to Congress, with a declassified version released to the public. There’s no signs pointing to alien encounters, but the report found 510 incidents where anomalous, unidentified objects or events were noted.

It has been 325 days since the Russian invasion began. On Saturday, the fighting in Ukraine continues. The war goes on In the Donbas, the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced the capture of Soledar, a small salt mining town to the north of Bakhmut. However, the situation on the ground continues to remain uncertain, […]
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It has been 324 days since the Russian invasion began. On Friday, the fight for Bakhmut continues unabated with most of the fighting taking place a few miles to the north in the small town of Soledar. Fighting for the mines The fighting for Soledar, a small settlement to the north of Bakhmut, continues in […]
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If the F-35s cannot fly in sufficient numbers, older aircraft, such as the F-16, will have to be kept in service to fill that gap. In turn, extending the life of older aircraft drains funds that could be used to acquire new aircraft, resulting in aging fighters that may no longer be able to perform their tasks on the modern battlefield.

Midway through December, when the Ukrainian army began rotating new battalions into eastern Ukraine, the 46th Airmobile Brigade suffered the most.
It turned in the area surrounding Bakhmut, a city in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, approximately 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, the capital of the separatist People’s Republic.
The sad subject of Russian fixation is Bakhmut, a city with a pre-war population of 72,000.

On December 29, 2022, the General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) entrusted Nexter Systems with the renewal of fifty Army Leclerc combat tanks. Thus, a total of one hundred reconditioned automobiles have been ordered from the manufacturer, with a first batch of fifty vehicles reported in June 2021.
The redesign of the Leclerc tank, assigned to Nexter Systems by the DGA in March 2015, has as its primary purpose its integration into the Scorpion combined arms battle units.