For most of the last century, if something hostile was flying at your face, options boiled down to this: hope somebody around has a big gun. A Stinger team. A Patriot battery. An F-16 somewhere overhead doing F-16 things. The grunt on the ground pointed their tiny weapon up, got that potential threat in their sights, and proudly said out loud, “pew, pew.”
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Drones have officially broken that arrangement.
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The British Army has started retiring its Land Rover vehicles after seven decades of operational use, initiating plans to identify a next generation of light mobility vehicles (LMV).
Members of the National Guard and Coast Guard are carrying out extensive search and rescue efforts in Hawaii, as the state is hit by the largest and worst flooding in two decades.
Roughly 200 Hawaii National Guard members are taking part in storm response missions after Gov. Josh Green activated troops in the wake of the storm. The mobilized force includes members of the Hawaii National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package. Military and first responders rescued more than 200 people since Friday.
As Bob Feller drove to sign his contract with the Cleveland Indians for the 1942 season, he distracted himself by listening to his car radio.
Already an accomplished Major League Baseball pitcher, Feller was 23 years old and entering the prime of his athletic career. As he traveled through the Midwest, a news alert announcing the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor interrupted regular programming.
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Feller, the only pitcher ever to throw a no-hitter on MLB’s Opening Day, never signed that contract.
Karen McKay, RealClearDefense
When Richard Nixon ended the draft in January 1973, America lost something vital to its soul.
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The Navy’s Columbia-class SSBNs will be central to the U.S. nuclear deterrent once in service.
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As modern air defenses become more sophisticated, the U.S.
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The new H-60Mx now goes to testing as the Army works to expand its autonomous and remote-controlled arsenal.
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The B-52H Stratofortress is continuing the integration tests with the AGM-181 Long Range Stand Off (LRSO) missile, the Air Force’s next-gen stealth nuclear cruise missile….
When the United States and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in June last year, the operation caught many observers off guard — the planning was tightly concealed. By contrast, when Operation Epic Fury started in the early hours of Feb. 28, much of the world was staying up refreshing their screens, waiting for it to begin. Open source analysts tracked the usual indicators of escalation: satellite imagery, repositioning of carrier strike groups, and cryptic statements from officials. Intelligence agencies monitored missile deployments, while journalists quoted inside sources.