The 1950s were a time of rapid innovation in aviation. The world emerged from World War II with an intense curiosity about new technologies and a heightened interest in military superiority. The Cold War was beginning to heat up, and the U.S. military was focused on developing any technology that might provide a strategic advantage.
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For decades the United States military has dreamed of developing jetpacks to ferry troops around. Personalized flying machines could turn an infantryman into an airborne fighter. But alongside rocket-propelled soldiers, the U.S. military also once gave personal vertical take-off and landing machines a shot.
They are better described, and are classified as flying platforms. Soldiers would stand on a small platform, which itself was over a large fan that would generate lift and get troops airborne.
L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber detail the continuing lies emanating from Ukraine and the truth on the ground in Donbass.
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NGOs rise out of the muck of the Deep State to foment hate and discontent with those who’ve sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution
Here come the shadowy NGOs in the counter-attack to undermine a legally elected President and his Administration.
The group “Win Without War” is now funding signs, emails, and billboards outside military bases essentially soliciting sworn military and civilian members of the U.S. Government to collect and report information for legal actions against the Administration.
The new year is a busy time, but it’s also a good time to set aside a little to review your financial situation and make plans for 2026. As part of those plans, early January is a great time to increase your contributions to the military’s Thrift Savings Plan (TSP).
Related: Everything there is to know about military pay and veteran benefits for 2026
TSP Basics
TSP is a tax-advantaged retirement savings account, similar to a civilian 401(k). Contributions are made directly from your military pay account.
Editor’s Note: Defense tech enthusiasts may be familiar with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous Arsenal of Democracy speech, which solemnly and urgently called for material support to Europe in its fight against the Nazis. In that “fireside chat,” broadcast to radios across the country, Roosevelt appealed to the American people to break from their tradition of noninterventionism and appeasement to support the war effort. But Roosevelt delivered another speech two weeks later to Congress, on January 6, 1941, that struck a different tone. That address is excerpted below.
The Venezuelan Air Force has been confirmed to have received Iranian Mohajer-6 unmanned aircraft, which is the first known armed drone type have been brought into service in the country. The aircraft are based at El Libertador Air Base, the Air Force’s primary operational facility, where the country’s Su-30MK2 fighters have also been based. The Mohajer-6 is deployed by the armed forces of Iran and Russia, with unconfirmed reports also indicating deployments by Sudan, Ethiopia, and formerly by Syria.
As part of efforts spanning more than a decade to rapidly expand the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s fleet of advanced destroyers, the service commissioned seven new destroyers in 2025, all of which were Type 052D class ships. These included the warship Weinan (hull number 166), commissioned in March 2025, the Suzhou (hull number 158), commissioned in May 2025, the Cangzhou (hull number 125), commissioned on May 29, 2025, the Heze (hull number 126), commissioned in July 2025, and the Zhumadian (hull number 127), commissioned on July 27, 2025.
The year 2025 saw the intensification of conflicts across multiple theatres, and the outbreak of new hostilities in Latin America, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, while major developments in ongoing arms races have shifted consensus among analysts regarding long term power trajectories affecting several key hotspots.
It was nearing midnight just two days before Thanksgiving when a small Marine Corps drone buzzed to life, obscuring the sound of insects chirping away at the Puerto Rican military facility known as Camp Santiago.
Then there was an explosion, briefly illuminating the drone’s target — a container — and the flora surrounding it in an otherwise dark night, according to a Marine Corps video of the exercise. A voice then cracked over the radio: the target was destroyed.