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Summary and Key Points: On May 14, 2005, the USS America made its final contribution to national defense by becoming the first supercarrier intentionally sunk in a live-fire exercise.
-This “SINKEX” was not an act of disrespect, but a crucial test to evaluate how 80,000-ton steel giants withstand modern underwater and aerial assaults.
The Army will open a new dining hall at one of its largest bases later this month, which the service has closely modeled off cafeterias on college campuses. Soldiers will be given $39 worth of what the Army is calling “freedom dollars.”
Freedom dollars is the term the Army is using to refer to the funds that are taken out of soldiers’ paychecks to go toward meals at dining facilities. Typically, soldiers can only get a set number of food items per meal card swipe. Now, individual items are assigned a value, and soldiers can spend up to their allotted daily amount.
The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory is looking for Marines with expertise in small unmanned aerial systems and artificial intelligence to join the organization’s fiscal 2026 fellowship program.
The solicitation for nominations, released Friday via a MARADMIN message, comes as the Corps is trying to ramp up its drone arsenal and AI prowess and integrate those types of capabilities across the enterprise.
The service aims to expand its first-person view UAS capabilities this year by purchasing 10,000 new platforms and increasing the number of Marines who are trained on them.
Summary and Key Points: Developed by McDonnell in the late 1940s, the XF-85 Goblin was a tiny, stubby interceptor designed to be launched and recovered from the bomb bay of a heavy bomber.
-Intended to protect the intercontinental B-36 Peacemaker, the Goblin lacked traditional landing gear, relying entirely on a trapeze system for mid-air recovery.
XF-85 Sign at USAF Museum July 19 2025. Image Credit: National Security Journal Photo.
-However, flight tests at Muroc Army Airfield revealed that the turbulent air beneath the “mother ship” made docking nearly impossible.
Summary and Key Points: The S-500 Prometheus has officially entered combat duty as of late 2025, with Russia claiming it can intercept everything from low-orbit satellites to the F-35.
-However, the system’s “stealth-killing” reputation is under heavy fire.
-In August 2025, a Ukrainian drone successfully destroyed a 98L6 “Yenisey” radar in Crimea—the sophisticated heart of the S-500 network—exposing a critical vulnerability to asymmetric threats.
In the long history of the United States Marine Corps, certain names carry a gravity that transcends rank, time, and even official recognition. Among those names is Maj. James Capers Jr., a Force Reconnaissance Marine whose actions in Vietnam have been spoken of with reverence for decades. He is widely considered one of the most decorated Marines in history, a combat leader who endured catastrophic wounds while protecting his men and a trailblazer who shattered racial barriers within elite Marine units.
Nearly two decades ago the United States and Japan signed an initiative to reduce the number of Marines in Okinawa. Now experts with the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, D.C. warn that moving Marines to Guam and elsewhere in the Pacific from the Japanese island would undermine the military’s ability to counter an attack from China.
Under the the US-Japan Defense Policy Review Initiative, or DPRI, the United States has agreed to move about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam, Hawaii, and other locations in the Pacific, while about 10,000 Marines would remain in Okianwa.
Using OSINT, Airforce Technology explores claims of US military build up while discovering American patrols along the Persian Gulf
Summary and Key Points: Four years of conflict have fundamentally rewritten the rules of heavy armor. Initially crippled by tactical errors and poor infantry screening, Russia’s tank fleet now faces a lethal ecosystem of first-person view (FPV) drones that conduct up to 45,000 “target engagements” per month.
-This relentless aerial observation has forced Moscow to resurrect obsolete T-62 and T-55 tanks to conserve its dwindling modern stock.
KNDS and TYTAN Technologies have formalised an expanded partnership to further develop drone defence solutions for military land systems.