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On May 2, 2023, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) departed Naval Station Norfolk for its first global deployment. The roughly 4,500 sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier are joined by a four-legged crew member named Sage. A 3-year-old female yellow Labrador Retriever, Sage’s deployment aboard the Ford is part of the Expanded Operational Stress Control Canine pilot program.
The USS Ford has a four-legged crew member on its first deployment (U.S.

The Mula UGV by American Robotics from Argentina was designed to deploy several types of payloads. (Victor Barreira)
Argentinean unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) company American Robotics designed a multi-purpose, modular, tracked UGV capable of being equipped with several payloads, company’s CEO Javier Sebastián Mirich told Janes.
The UGV – designated the Mula (Mule in English) – is being developed alongside the Research and Development General Directorate of the Argentine Army (DGID), Sebastián Mirich said. A prototype is scheduled to be built in late 2023, he added.

Seen in its wings-folded stowed configuration, the air-launched Storm Shadow is a long-range cruise missile with a published range ‘in excess’ of 250 km. (Janes/Patrick Allen)
The United Kingdom is donating MBDA Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace said.
Wallace made the announcement in the House of Commons on 11 May, saying the donation was in line with other long-range weapon systems gifted to Kyiv. He added that the conventional cruise missiles would enable the Ukrainian armed forces to push back Russian forces located in Ukraine.

Between June 25-26 1876, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment fought the combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho and Northern Cheyenne tribes of American Indians along the Little Bighorn River of Montana. Some 700 cavalrymen and their native scouts, led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, were wiped out during Custer’s Last Stand by the allied tribes Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, among others.
The only survivor from the 7th Cavalry was Comanche, specifically, a mixed-breed horse named Comanche, who had been with the unit ever since it was formed.

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In an interview with Spain’s El Pais, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres discussed his opinions regarding the war in Ukraine and said, “I believe that peace negotiations are not possible at this time,” as “both parties are convinced that they can win.

As the lead effects integrator for the Tempest, MBDA is now “in active discussions” with one or more potential Japanese companies to team on GCAP. (BAE Systems)
MBDA is “in active discussions” with one or more potential Japanese companies to team on the new Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), a senior official said on 10 May.
Speaking at the company’s Stevenage facility, managing director MBDA UK and group engineering director Chris Allam said that work is ongoing to bring in a Japanese partner to work alongside MBDA UK and MBDA Italy on the effects pillar of GCAP.

With the Pentagon’s first enterprise cloud contract underway, the Department of Defense’s top IT officer wants to move even faster to start getting capabilities to warfighters.
The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), which was awarded in December, is the DOD’s highly anticipated $9 billion enterprise cloud effort that replaced the maligned Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program. Google, Oracle, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft were all awarded under the contract and will each compete for task orders.

This jaw-dropping true story is about Operation Frankton and the extraordinary men called the Cockleshell Heroes.
Picture this: it’s December 7, 1941, and WWII is raging. Just as the United States reels from the shock of Pearl Harbor, a band of fearless British commandos gears up for an audacious, game-changing mission.
But before we get into the specifics, check out these insane but true facts about the operation.
These brave service members paddled over 60 miles for several days to reach their targets. In canoes.

Cayor,
the third and final OPV 58 S on order for Senegal, is pictured during its launch at Piriou’s shipyard in Concarneau on 2 May.
(Piriou)
French shipbuilder Piriou launched the third and final missile-armed Walo (OPV 58 S)-class offshore patrol ship on order for the Senegalese Navy.

The new vessel, named
Cayor
, was floated out during a ceremony held at Piriou’s Concarneau shipyard in Brittany, northwest France, on 2 May.

The Office of Strategic Services, the United States’ intelligence and special warfare section and precursor to the modern Central Intelligence Agency, was founded in 1942. President Franklin Roosevelt was concerned about American intelligence capabilities, because before the OSS, there was no overall agency dedicated to intelligence, code-breaking, or special operations.
Considering its short life span and how fast it was able to ramp up its operations, the OSS was wildly successful. One of the first things they did was commission psychoanalyst Walter C.