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Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait.
Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranians are having fun playing drone sounds loudly causing police to flee the scene.
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Less-expensive, one-way attack drones are proving to be a meaningful weapon in U.S. forces’ arsenal as they hustle to overwhelm Iranian defenses in Operation Epic Fury.
But, according to the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, the joint force’s current inventory of LUCAS (Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) drones is relatively scarce.
“They were not in full-rate production. So, we shipped what we had. And you saw with some shipments we were able to get out there, [commander of U.S. Central Command Adm.
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They undergo rigorous selection processes and training to conduct unconventional warfare tasks that exceed the capabilities of standard military forces. The truth is, the world may never know exactly what these teams have accomplished, but their public records contain enough to earn global respect.
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Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, who was killed in a March 1 drone attack in Kuwait, was a ‘surrogate dad’ to so many in his Iowa-based reserve unit that some are now raising money to help dozens of his soldiers determined to attend his funeral in California later this month.
One of the organizers is Connor Kuehl, who said he was aimless when he enlisted in the Army in 2013 and met Marzan. Kuehl’s father wasn’t at home at the time, he said, and the senior soldier became the father figure who had been missing in his life.
At Armed Forces Press, we just ran a feature last month aiming to raise awareness about the historically buried and shocking British royal / Nazi duke trip across the US in Spring 1940, with hundreds of American elites visiting him at events, while the US was still neutral in WWII. That article links to a documentation webpage with seized and declassified US and Nazi German intelligence.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has chosen the Cata launcher from Threod Systems for the British Army’s one-way effector (OWE) capability.
Norway could be seeing to acquire additional anti-tank mines, having earlier determined to obtain the German-origin DM22 munition.
The Defense Department’s ambitious homeland missile defense architecture known as Golden Dome is now expected to cost around $185 billion to account for additional space-based systems, according to the project’s director.
The Office of Golden Dome for America has been approved to spend an additional $10 billion in order to procure space capabilities needed for the architecture, Golden Dome director Gen. Michael Guetlein said Tuesday during the McAleese Defense Programs conference.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims forces have prevented an anticipated Russian offensive in the Donbas region.