Ukrainian drone operators saved a Ukrainian Babushka walking under fire, as she hobbled with her canes. Heartwarming.
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The United States is facing a growing shipbuilding crisis that, if not fixed, could prevent the U.S. from expanding its fleet fast enough to meet emerging global threats.
Multiple programs are running over budget and budget schedule or have been canceled outright, and the number of operational ships has stagnated despite rising spending on naval construction.
A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 participates in an air power demonstration near the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) April 24, 2013, in the Pacific Ocean.
For the first time in 70 years, two players from the U.S. Naval Academy were selected in the professional football draft.
On Saturday, seniors Eli Heidenreich and Landon Robinson were both picked in the seventh round of the NFL draft. They are the 20th and 21st midshipmen to be drafted into the NFL over the last 80 years. They’re also the first pair of midshipmen to get drafted in the same year since George Welsh and Ron Beagle both were picked for the Chicago Cardinals in 1956.
Robinson is heading to the Cincinnati Bengals. He was the 226th overall pick in this year’s draft.
Left: cropped view (with our highlighting) of a page in Philip Johnson’s FBI report. (See link to archive.org version below.) Right: early 1930s photo portrait of Philip Johnson.
Fun, or rather interesting fact: Philip Johnson, an architecture and design curator at the then-fledgling Museum of Modern Art in New York in the early 1930s, aspired to become “The American Hitler”, his secretary told the FBI.
Ever since they replaced battleships as naval capital ships during World War II, aircraft carriers have kept that place as the ultimate power projectors of the U.S. Navy.
This is especially true of nuclear-powered supercarriers (CVNs) such as the venerable Nimitz-class warships and their anointed successors, the bigger and mightier Gerald R. Ford-class CVNs. These vessels are marvels, both for their sheer size and technological capabilities.
The Ford-class is the largest warship ever constructed.
(April 14, 2017) The aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) USS Gerald R.
In Europe, only France and the United Kingdom field aircraft carriers. France maintains only one nuclear aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, which has been in service for more than 20 years.
With its lone carrier aging, France has been working on its replacement: the Porte-Avions de Nouvelle Génération (PANG).
The carrier has been in development since 2018 and recently received the official green light to begin construction in December 2025.
Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier, France. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The new carrier will reportedly match the size of a U.S.
Ohio-class SSGNs (guided-missile submarines) are nearing their retirement window. Converted from SSBN (ballistic missile) boats in the early 2000s, the Ohio carries a large payload of Tomahawk cruise missiles, sparking debate over whether to retire the sub on schedule due to age and cost, or extend its service life to take advantage of its added firepower.
With the Indo-Pacific coming into strategic focus and rising concerns about magazine depth, the question is especially relevant.
The U.S. Department of Defence is considering plans to procure foreign destroyer and frigate designs, and build warships in overseas shipyards, in response to the serious hindering of the U.S. Navy surface fleet’s capabilities resulting from the limited capacities of the U.S. shipbuilding industry. The Fiscal Year 2027 budget proposal includes $1.85 billion in research and development funding for studies on building frigates and destroyers overseas.
Chinese aerospace researchers say they have identified potential aerodynamic and stability weaknesses in the US Air Force’s next-generation stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider.
The claim comes from a study conducted at the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, one of China’s major military aviation research institutions.
B-21 Raider Up Close. Image Credit: U.S. Air Force.
A second B-21 Raider test aircraft takes off, Sept. 11, from Palmdale, Calif., to join the Air Force’s flight test campaign at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Iranian drone and missile attacks on U.S. military bases across the Middle East from February 28 caused considerably more damage than the Pentagon and other U.S. government sources have publicly admitted, according to informed sources cited by NBC News. Strikes rendered some facilities inoperable, forced the relocation of certain capabilities between bases, and caused considerable damage to infrastructure, equipment, and communication systems. Although U.S.