On Sept. 16, 1620 the Mayflower left Plymouth, England bound for the new world, bound for the northern Virginia colony. They never made it—not to Virginia, anyway. Trouble with the ships, stormy seas, and some unexpected course corrections delayed their arrival to America and when they finally saw their new continent, the most disturbing trouble of all happened: they were low on beer.
The ship’s commander, Capt. Christopher Jones, made an executive decision: the Pilgrims would be departing a little sooner than they expected so there would be more beer for the crew.
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Oil is closing out its weakest quarter in five years on Tuesday, with Brent crude down roughly 30 percent over the three months and off about 20 percent in June alone, the steepest quarterly fall since the pandemic crash of 2020. The slide has carried both major benchmarks back to where they traded just before the United States and Israel began striking Iran on February 28. West Texas Intermediate sat near $70.75 a barrel and Brent near $73.22, a remarkable round trip for a market that watched prices climb above $120 at the height of the war.
China’s YY-20 Tanker Increasing The Range Of Its Fighters: China released a military video promoting its newest sixth-generation stealth fighter as it is refueled mid-air by the YY-20 aerial refueling tanker.
This air-refueling capability was one that the PLAAF didn’t possess until this decade, but it is rapidly gaining expertise and experience.
J-36 Fighter in the Sky. Image Credit: X Post.
The YY-20, with a capacity of 90 tons of fuel, enables the Chinese to conduct force projection with their land-based fighters to ranges that were unreachable just a few short years ago.
An old friend pinned a Special Forces tab onto Terry McIntosh’s blue blazer earlier this month during an impromptu celebration at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The tab was a gift from Al Kittredge, a retired Special Forces officer, who presented it to McIntosh to mark the Army’s decision to formally acknowledge McIntosh’s status as an 18-year-old Special Forces soldier in 1968.
After months of anticipation, the figures behind the UK’s Defence Investment Plan have been published following the Prime Minister’s speech.
Harvey Geh, The US Sun AS Kyiv launches a crippling endgame blitz, Vladimir Putin may be forced to end his war in Ukraine in just months, experts say.
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Lockheed Martin has received a $3bn contract from the US Army for the production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets.
The UK Government is presenting its long-delayed Defence Investment Plan (DIP), confirming an allocation of £5bn towards the integration of drones and autonomous systems in the armed forces over the next four years.
Ukraine is negotiating with France for a license to build the SCALP cruise missile on its own soil, a step that would hand Kyiv a homemade precision weapon it could produce in quantity and fire into Russia without waiting on an ally’s permission. The talks are early, and the obstacles are real. But the timing is pointed, because the missile would arrive as Russia’s air defenses are showing signs of strain under a relentless Ukrainian campaign, giving Moscow one more kind of threat to guard against across a country it is already struggling to cover.