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Navy officials said they have “not identified” an increase in suicidal ideation or attempts aboard an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East — a statement that conflicts with media reports and statements by military family members about the declining morale and mental health among the crew.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier left for its deployment to the Middle East in November.
Progress on the Defense Department’s ambitious Golden Dome missile defense architecture is at risk of being delayed due to budget instability headed into fiscal 2027, according to the top general leading the effort.
“Both sides of the aisle — as well as the House and the Senate — are working through the math about how you do this in ‘27. If they don’t figure it out, there is no Golden Dome because there is no funding,” Gen. Michael Guetlein, the project’s director, said Tuesday during the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
The skies over the Donbass have become one of the most contested battlespaces in modern warfare — and this footage shows exactly why.
A Russian soldier manning a dual machine gun desperately tracks a Ukrainian drone weaving and diving over a military convoy, unleashing burst after burst in a frantic attempt to bring it down. The drone holds its line. The gunner keeps firing.
This is the new face of ground warfare — not tanks rolling across open plains, but cheap unmanned systems hunting armored columns at low altitude while soldiers scramble to find an angle of fire.
Iran is reportedly set to receive hundreds of portable anti-air missile systems from China, as peace talks with the United States stall.
Reuters says three sources informed it of the impending plans, which China’s Foreign Ministry has firmly denied.
A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 23rd Bomb Squadron sits on the flightline during exercise Prairie Vigilance 25-1 at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 12, 2025. Vigilance series exercises are conducted with a focus on the safe and secure handling of equipment. (U.S.
Ukraine Hits Last Major Russian Black Sea Fleet Stronghold – Ukraine launched one of its most ambitious attacks on Russia’s Black Sea military infrastructure yet, striking the naval base at Novorossiysk overnight with a combination of aerial and naval drones and missiles.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the strikes in a statement, describing them as a “unique operation” against the “last major stronghold of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea.
When Elon Musk shut down Russia’s access to his Starlink satellite internet system, it caused, as several military analysts said at the time, more problems for the Russian military than its leadership would like to admit.
Several of them described to The Moscow Times just how much Russia’s wartime operations suffered.
Putin in June 2016 Image Credit Russian Federation Photo
Putin Back in 2015 Russian Federation Photo
“The loss of part of their communications created disorganization within the Russian army,” the Ukrainian military analyst Ivan Stupak told The Moscow Times.
Pakistan says the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran are moving closer to an arrangement that could help break the months-long standoff over the Strait of Hormuz (SoH), even as Washington and Tehran continue trading threats. Maritime violence persists across the region–including now in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb.
What the Pakistanis Are Saying
President Donald J. Trump, joined by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Physicist John M.
Passersby walking along the banks of the Danube in Hungary’s capital city noticed a strange set of handlebars protruding from the rocks on Aug. 2, 2026. Authorities would uncover the remains of a wreck—from more than 80 years ago.
The handlebars belonged to a German Army motorcycle, recovered intact from the river waters. Also uncovered were the bodies of two German soldiers (with their identification tags), a wedding ring, and some anti-tank mines.
Pakistan Still Says An Iran Deal Is Close – Pakistan continues to push negotiations between the United States and Iran, with Pakistani officials claiming on Wednesday, August 12, that both sides have agreed to give diplomacy more time. But within hours of the statement, Tehran pushed back.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Iran has not agreed to extend the negotiating period established under the previous U.S.-Iran agreement, arguing that Washington effectively destroyed the deal weeks ago and that it would not be reimplemented.
USS John C. Stennis Carrier.