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It was supposed to be a routine flight, nothing out of the ordinary.
The SA-16 Albatross was scheduled to leave Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho on January 24, 1952, and fly approximately 700 miles before returning. The Air Force plane never made it back, crashing into a mountain in Death Valley, California.
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Thankfully, the six airmen onboard, including a former World War II pilot, parachuted out of the aircraft’s back door before the moment of impact.

Should a vessel attempt to run the U.S. military’s current blockade of Iranian ports, Navy sailors are authorized to fire warning shots if necessary, said Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Any ship that would cross the blockade would result in our sailors executing pre-planned tactics designed to bring the force to that ship — if need be, board the ship and take her over,” Caine said during a Thursday Pentagon news briefing. “And that includes a series of escalated force options, which could include warning shots and others.”
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On Apr. 15, 2026, at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit, the U.S. Army officially named its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft the MV-75 Cheyenne II.
Yes, the Army has decided that it ran out of Native American tribes to name its aircraft after and circled back to a canceled attack helicopter from the 1960s. Or, maybe they felt bad about shorting the Cheyenne tribe with the AH-56 and decided to try again with the MV-75. Regardless, the name is back.
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For 79 years, the Army has named its aircraft after Native American tribes.

As America’s westernmost territory, the island of Guam is the logistical heart of any large-scale military build-up in the western Pacific. It has long runways, a deepwater port, huge fuel storage and weapons depots, and it’s about 2,000 miles closer to China than it is to Hawaii. The island is also U.S. soil, so the military does not need permission from a foreign government to operate there.
Those factors make Guam a prime target for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) if a conflict were to break out between the U.S. and China.

The story of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency is inseparable from the story of the modern United States. From safeguarding President-elect Abraham Lincoln to building one of the earliest organized intelligence networks during the Civil War and shaping the country’s frontier legends, the Pinkerton Agency played a consequential role in the American experience.
Its operatives protected the railroads that came to bind the country together, pursued criminals across the American West, and were central to the most violent labor conflicts of the industrial age.

A senior UK Government Minister has gone on the attack, accusing “journalists and armchair generals” of “talking down” the UK miliary.

Malcolm Davis, The Strategist (ASPI)

For decades, notions of laser weapons have been the stuff of science fiction.

Whitney, M+A Electronics
By processing sensor streams directly on the platform, defense systems can fuse, analyze, and act on data in near real time, even in contested environments

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Michael Peck, Uncommon Def.