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Bats use echolocation to find food and places to rest. Add in an incendiary device glued to their chest, and you now have a firestorm that can wreak havoc on any enemy. Or so Pennsylvania dental surgeon Dr. Lytle S. Adams thought during World War II.
The problem is that you don’t know where they will go once released. Add to it that it’s generally a bad idea to mix explosives, adhesives, and wildlife.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Adams made a fateful trip to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park during a vacation to New Mexico. He was awed by the hundreds of thousands of bats that nested in the caves.
Welcome back to the Rundown! The Senate voted on Wednesday to send the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, to President Joe Biden. If signed into law, the NDAA would give junior enlisted service members a 14.5% pay raise effective April 1, 2025.
Quick reminder: The NDAA is a defense policy bill, not a budget. Congress still has not passed a spending bill for this fiscal year, which began nearly three months ago.
A small number of British trainers have been in Ukraine for some time, while the vast bulk of Ukrainian soldiers undergo training in the UK.
QinetiQ, a company that delivers test, trials, training, and evaluation services for UK MoD, has placed an order with Celestia STS.
The US DIU chose Viasat to provide networking capabilities for Replicator, focusing on command and control connectivity for uncrewed systems.
Jihoon Yu, RealClearDefense
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The United States is actively developing non-nuclear offensive capabilities based on several maneuverable hypersonic weapon systems.
Dan Grazier, RespState
When they’ve resorted to arguing ‘it’s a job creator,’ you know there isn’t much military use.