The enormous fireball covered almost the entire width of one end of the USS Midway after an airplane crashed into the aircraft carrier’s deck. One look at the flames, and it defies logic that someone could survive an accident of that magnitude.
But someone did. On June 23, 1951, USS Midway crew members got Navy Cmdr. George Duncan out of the damaged cockpit of his F9F-5 Panther fighter jet. They brought him directly to medical personnel, who treated Duncan’s injuries.
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A Russian drone struck a Ukrainian passenger train near the Polish border on September 13, shortly after a separate train carrying former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt and other senior European officials had departed the same station. Ukrainian Railways claimed the diplomatic train had deliberately departed Yahodyn earlier than scheduled because of the changing security situation. The company subsequently assessed that it was “highly probable” that the Russian drone had actually been intended to strike the diplomatic train.
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The Department of War just announced on August 31, 2026, that it is expanding GenAI.
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Lawrence, DScoop
The Army awarded two electronic warfare-related contracts with a combined value of nearly $196 million, officials said Thursday, marking the first production deals under a…
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Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
We have new details on Lockheed’s tailless CCA, including about its exotic “submerged” air inlet and how its design puts a premium on survivability.
USS George Washington (CVN 73) conducts flight operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, Sept. 13, 2026. Photo: U.S. Navy / DVIDS (public domain)
Hormuz oil shipments up sharply under US Navy protection. Oil shipments through the Straits of Hormuz are rising under the protection of US Navy carrier strike groups and their escorts, the highest level for several months.
According to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz increased to just under 11 million barrels per day over a seven day average, as he told Bloomberg News on Wednesday.
For decades, the United States’ nuclear weapons enterprise has wrestled with an institutional paradox. On one hand is the imperative to make the complex more “responsive” to global tumult and technical surprise, able to field new weapons quickly in reaction to unanticipated threats. On the other are the unforgiving engineering requirements of thermonuclear warheads, devices whose development is measured in years. No silver bullet solution to this unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object conundrum will likely present itself.
The space economy has surpassed $600 billion in annual value, with some projecting it will reach a trillion by the 2030s. Jonathan Panter is joined by Joseph Yaffe (Cowboy Space), Brian Weeden (The Aerospace Corporation), and Dan Wald (Booz Allen) to weigh where the real growth is. They discuss how AI infrastructure is blurring the line between the space economy and the regular economy, the regulatory tangle, the leap toward autonomous constellations of hundreds of thousands of satellites, competition with China, and the dual-use risks of data centers in orbit.