There’s a scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life” where George Bailey sits in a bar. He’s struggling, at the end of his rope. He prays for help and begins crying. It’s one of the most emotional scenes in film history and makes us all ugly-cry every Christmas.
What some people may not realize is that actor Jimmy Stewart, who plays Bailey in the movie, was really crying.
He was on a Hollywood soundstage, in front of a crew of hundreds, really pouring his heart out. Crying wasn’t even in the script.

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The UK government has pledged an urgent supply of air defence missiles and systems, worth over £500m ($681m), to Ukraine.

The AH-64 Apache attack helicopter has completed a live fire trial of the new 30x113mm XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive ammunition.

The Marine Corps is steadily growing its arsenal of long-range weapons with a Pacific fight in mind. On Jan. 30, the service selected a “launched effect” from L3Harris called Red Wolf that can be deployed from AH-1Z Viper helicopters and hit a target over 230 miles away. 
Put another way, Marine attack helicopters will soon be able to reach out and touch something 3,373 football fields away (with a missile).
This gives Marines, who continue to push forward with Force Design 2030, the ability to conduct over-the-horizon strikes from Vipers and other vertical take-off platforms.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy might have a ridiculous name, but it’s starting get some serious weaponry. A Chinese Shenyang J-15 “Flying Shark” was recently spotted carrying two YJ-15 anti-ship missiles, and that little detail is a loud message about reach, targeting, and making life harder for everyone operating inside the first island chain.
This wasn’t a conceptual mock-up or a test flight. It was a carrier-based fighter, in flight, sporting a pair of YJ-15 supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles powered by ramjet engines.

Vladimir Putin likes to talk a lot of smack when demonstrating Russia’s new weapons. But Western analysts face a familiar dilemma every time: We have to separate genuine technological advances from the propaganda hype. Luckily, history is a valuable filter here.
Moscow has repeatedly showcased platforms billed as revolutionary, only for actual combat experience and technical analysis to reveal some pretty critical flaws.

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As the United States approaches the celebration of its 250th anniversary, the nation is called not only to commemorate its founding but to reflect deeply on the individuals whose sacrifices transformed revolutionary ideals into lasting reality.
This milestone invites Americans to look beyond familiar names and battles and to recognize the global dimension of the struggle for independence. The American Revolution was not fought in isolation. It was part of a broader contest of ideas that crossed oceans, challenged monarchies, and reshaped the modern world.

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The Pentagon just executed one of the most consequential management restructurings in recent Air Force history.

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Army efforts to develop and field unmanned ground vehicles capable of taking over a range of battlefield missions have been underway for more than 20 years.

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The U.S. Army has been acquiring multiple versions of the LOCUST laser weapon system to bolster its ability to shoot down hostile drones.

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The system countered drone swarms in the exercise and showed its launch, flight, intercept, and recovery capabilities.

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… speed, accuracy, and combat readiness—not as theory, but as a standard you can measure with a stopwatch.

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The publication of Chinese commercial satellite imagery has exposed the exact positioning of U.S. Army MIM-104 Patriot air defence systems at the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar, which is one of multiple facilities at the forefront of the U.S.-led military buildup currently being staged near Iran. This closely follows the publication of Chinese commercial satellite imagery from the MizarVision satellite company confirming the deployment of a U.S. Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.

The Indian Defence Acquisition Council has granted the Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for purchasing 288 new missiles for the Russian S-400 surface to air missile system under a $1.1 billion contract, following reports from October that the Defence Ministry was holding talks for such a procurement. The Indian Air Force is currently the largest foreign operator of the S-400, with five regiments’ worth of the systems having ordered in October 2018 under a $5.4 billion contract, of which four have been delivered with the fifth expected in 2026.

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John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones,” an apt depiction of the current discourse and debate of what the world will look like now that the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) treaty has expired. The passing of New START marks the end of treaties formally limiting strategic nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia.

Chinese commercial satellite imagery from the MizarVision satellite company has confirmed the deployment of a U.S. Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, which has increasingly emerged as the U.S. Armed Forces’ most prominent forward operating location as they have prepared for a possible resumption of high intensity hostilities with Iran. Commenting on the recent THAAD deployment, a senior Pentagon source observed: “Before any potential action against Iran, we need to bolster our defences.

U.S. Navy and Coast Guard units mounted a joint operation targeting the oil tanker Aquila II in international waters in the Indian Ocean on February 9, with the vessel boarded and commandeered by U.S. forces. The 274 metre ship and its 700,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil are expected to be appropriated by the United States without compensation paid to the owners. U.S.

Su-57 fifth generation fighters from the latest batch delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces on February 9 have reportedly integrated a new passive sensor, the upgraded 101KS onboard optical-electronic self-defence system, which is heavily optimised for maximising situational awareness while maintaining the fighter’s stealth profile.The system uses a medium and long wave infrared sensor which can detect and track airborne targets by their heat signature, and is reportedly a significant improvement over the preceding passive sensor that had only optical, laser and ultraviolet channels.

L Todd Wood sits down with Israeli BG Yossi Kuperwasser (Ret) to discuss Iran, Lebanon and Hezbollah, Syria, Turkey, Hamas and Gaze, and Yemen.
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The Air Force announced Thursday that it is integrating and testing the mission autonomy package for its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototypes — moving the program one step closer to a production decision this year.
The service is currently integrating a government-owned Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A-GRA) onto loyal wingman drones built by both General Atomics and Anduril, according to an Air Force news release.

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The Defense Department’s Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) has awarded six non-traditional vendors contracts to support advancements in novel technologies, officials announced Thursday.
Leidos, GoHypersonic, Special Aerospace Services (Aurex), the Purdue Applied Research Institute, Halo Engines and Kratos have each received other transaction agreements from the JHTO and its partner, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division. The awards are intended to help further advance the office’s ongoing development of next-generation hypersonics capabilities.

As private contractors have taken over the management of military housing on many bases, military families have long reported being asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs, about problems in their homes or as conditions for needed repairs. 
On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed the top enlisted leaders from each military branch about those agreements. during a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel hearing about quality of life issues for enlisted service members and their families.

The top enlisted leaders for each of the military branches — all of whom are men — said they have no issue with women in combat roles meeting the same standards as men.
The remarks were in response to a question posed at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday about a recently ordered Pentagon review of the “effectiveness” of women in combat jobs. The review, which will look at data on ground combat troop readiness, training, casualties, and deployability, comes more than a decade after the Department of Defense lifted the ban on women in combat roles.
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A reshuffle of who-commands-what in Nato puts a

SAN DIEGO — Five years into Operation Cattle Drive, the Navy has shut down more than two dozen outdated IT systems and pinpointed hundreds more that must be revamped, merged or decommissioned in the near future, according to the service’s acting Chief Information Officer Barry Tanner.
“This has been the year of actually landing on enterprise services and making that real,” he said Tuesday at the WEST 2026 conference.

The Coyote Block 3 Non-Kinetic counter-uncrewed aircraft system defeat a number of drone swarms in an exercise conducted by the US Army.

Lockheed Martin has developed a specialist dron

AI is coming for the boring parts of white-collar work, and a new report from Redeployable, developed in partnership with Hire Heroes USA, basically says that’s a good thing. Routine jobs were never the end game for vets anyway.
The report says the winners in 2026 are roles that still require judgment, leadership, technical problem-solving, and real-world presence when things break.
Veterans are Built for the Jobs AI Can’t Kill
The report, called The AI Career Shift: Where Veterans Should Focus in 2026,” frames AI as a sorting machine.

The DoD has fused sales authority and industrial base management into a single organisation under the auspices of the Acquisition office.

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If you watch Sean Connery or George Lazenby’s portrayal of James Bond in movies, you’ll notice that they hold handguns one-handed, often firing from the hip or point shooting (shooting instinctively, without using the sights).
In comparison, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig use two hands (though not always effectively) to shoot their pistols. This Bondian evolution on the silver screen is reflective of a change in the actual shooting world brought about by a Marine Corps veteran named Jeff Cooper.

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Ladies and gentlemen, buckle up and prepare for takeoff into the adrenaline-fueled world of one of cinema’s most iconic action films.
Released in 1986, Tony Scott’s “Top Gun” stars a young Tom Cruise as the daring pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, who catapults audiences into the high-stakes realm of naval aviation. Its roaring jet engines, heart-pounding dogfights, and unforgettable soundtrack with hits like Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” and Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away,” made the movie a cultural phenomenon.

You would think it’s easy to keep people from wandering across barren stretches of wasteland littered with unexploded ordnance, but apparently that’s not the case for a military test range in the Arizona desert, especially during peak tourist season.
Yuma Proving Ground police have had to crack down on trespassers on the 1,300-square-mile range, where the services test their latest experimental tech and regularly conduct live-fire training exercises — both of which are inherently dangerous and make it a less-than-ideal place to meander aimlessly.

During the 1950s, mushroom clouds regularly rose on the horizon of the blistering Nevada desert, visible from hotel rooftops and cocktail lounges in Las Vegas. Rather than fleeing from these symbols of unimaginable destruction, Americans moved toward them.
Tourists gathered with cameras, newspapers printed test schedules, and casinos timed breakfasts and cocktails to coincide with nuclear detonations. Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons of Cold War America: Miss Atomic Bomb.

New footage replaced by Chinese state media has shown the People’s Liberation Army Navy Type 055 class destroyer Lhasa operating alongside one of the service’s oldest surface combat ships, the Type 051C class destroyerShijiazhuang, highlighting how modern multirole and older specialist destroyer types can field highly complementary capabilities.

Hanwha Aerospace has broken ground on an armoured vehicle production facility in Petrești, Dâmbovița County, in a move to establish its first manufacturing site in Europe.

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New high-tech surveillance radar, electromagnetic catapults, advanced arresting gear and the ability to launch and recover combat-critical drones are merely a few of the technologies…

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New footage of J-20A fifth generation fighters serving under the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Southern Theatre Command has shown ten of the aircraft with newradar domes that clearly differ from those of older production models, with analysts observing a high likelihood that this is an indicator of a radar upgrade. This has occurred as the U.S.