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James Doohan’s first day of combat came during the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. He almost didn’t make it to his second, all because of a friendly fire incident.
Doohan, who played chief engineer Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott (“Scotty”) on the 1960s television classic “Star Trek,” served as a lieutenant in the Canadian army during World War II. On D-Day, he survived a turbulent landing at Juno Beach, and as the troops advanced inland, he shot and killed two German snipers.

Footage released by Qatari state media has for the first time shown the destruction on the ground of the AN/FPS-132 Block 5 Upgraded Early Warning Radar near Umm Dahal in Qatar, showing substantial internal damage after Iranian attacks on February 28. The radar is one of the most important and capable ground-based radar systems in the U.S. global missile warning architecture, although its extreme cost prevents widespread deployments, meaning the radar in Qatar is the only one of its kind outside the U.S. mainland.

Sources speaking to CBS News have reported that the U.S. Air Force has lost 24 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft during engagements with Iranian forces. This represents a significant increase from the 16 that had been lost by the beginning of the month, with eight more reported to have been shot down from April 1-9. Losses in early April have reportedly been particularly concentrated around Shiraz and the island of Kish. The updated report on the number of MQ-9s shot down has closely coincided with the reported disappearance of an even higher value type of unmanned aircraft, a U.S.

The UK Ministry of Defence will procure a significant number of Skyhammer munition interceptors over the next six months.

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The Space Force has set up a pool of 14 vendors to compete for $1.

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The tech soldiers carry will shape their performance in combat, missions, safety, and health. If you care about any of those things, you will love this episode. The next generation of American soldiers will operate with systems that blur the line between human and machine, but that future is still being worked out in real time. In this episode, three former servicemembers turned industry leaders look ahead to how frontline capabilities may evolve over the next decade and what will constrain them.Image: Sgt. Thiem Huynh via DVIDS.

In his long-awaited nuclear deterrence speech, French President Emmanuel Macron laid out his new doctrine of “forward deterrence” (dissuasion avancée) and — for the first time in history — offered to deploy the French Strategic Air Forces to European countries. “In the same way that our strategic submarines dilute naturally in the oceans,” the French president said, “our strategic air forces will also be able to be spread deep into the European continent.”The proposal to deploy French nuclear forces on allied territory may appear similar to the forward deployment of U.S.

For a long time, the Iranian government has treated free internet access as a privilege that is extended by the state to those willing to carry its message and withheld from everyone else. Around four hours after Israeli and American strikes began, internet traffic collapsed by 98 percent — a near-total blackout. Iran’s communications infrastructure was deliberately dismantled by the government and internet traffic was completely halted.

Understanding Personnel Recovery and Combat Search and Rescue in the military: it’s a national strategic mission and is resourced accordingly.

The world watched fascinated as America recovered two pilots isolated behind enemy lines in Iran. Television screens were filled with pundits or veterans discussing everything from SERE* school to the impact of the successful recovery of both pilots on ceasefire negotiations.