An Iranian “bomb” got lodged in a U.S. military helicopter earlier this week, but fortunately for the pilots, the weapon didn’t explode, President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday.
An Army AH-64 Apache crashed during a patrol operation Monday near the Strait of Hormuz. The two U.S. soldiers who were on board the aircraft survived and were later rescued by a Navy Corsair maritime drone operated by 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59, according to U.S. Central Command spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins.
The helicopter was reportedly struck by an Iranian attack drone.

While much of Western Europe caves to anti-Israel agitators, Czechia’s new conservative government is showing the kind of moral clarity, national confidence, and political backbone the rest of Europe desperately lacks.

At a moment when Brussels elites are increasingly pressuring Israel—the Middle East’s only democracy—Prague is doing the opposite: standing firmly with America’s closest ally in the region and refusing to bow to the anti-Israel consensus spreading across the European Union.

That matters enormously for the United States.

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Ukraine’s mid-range drone strike campaign is being used to heavily disrupt Russian supply lines, fuel depots, and air defenses 20 to 150 miles behind the front lines.

This strategy has forced Russia to severely restrict heavy equipment movements and ration fuel along vital corridors, such as the M-14 highway to Crimea. And they have been crippling Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure.

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But many of the drones are not arriving at the front ready to go for the operators.

Industry is slated to begin building the Air Force’s nascent Family of Affordable Mass Missiles (FAMM) in September, kicking off a multi-year effort to grow the service’s arsenal of low-cost weapons.
Speaking in front of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee on Tuesday, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach said the initial FAMM munitions “are on track to start production” later this fall. Once production begins, the service intends to purchase nearly 28,000 FAMM weapons over the next five years, according to the Air Force’s fiscal 2027 budget documents.

The United States’ war with Iran is entering a new violent phase. It started with an American Apache gunship helicopter being shot down, and then President Donald Trump ordered retaliatory strikes. Could we see more days or even weeks of war with Iran? One aspect of combat keeping the Americans from a prolonged attack is a lack of offensive missiles and defensive interceptors. These are difficult and time-consuming to produce, plus they are expensive to create.

In January of this year, Iran’s regime faced its biggest protests in years as anger spread over spiraling prices and a crumbling economy. The regime murdered thousands in a vicious crackdown.

Now, despite its bellicose talk, the country’s military has been battered by war and suffocated by a U.S. naval blockade; the country is now in even worse shape economically as Washington has tried to negotiate with Tehran into a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The British Army’s sole remaining county

An Army recruiter used the identities of seven would-be recruits to open bank accounts, cash in on fraudulent checks and credit cards in their names, and even buy plane tickets for a Las Vegas trip, according to federal court documents.
Former Sgt. 1st Class Jane Crosby pleaded guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in a federal court in Newark, New Jersey. Crosby was a recruiter in East Orange, New Jersey, in 2023 when, according to a plea agreement released by the Department of Justice, she used the identities of seven recruiting prospects to open accounts at a credit union.

Area 51 has long captured the imaginations of Americans since the original claims that the US military allegedly captured a “flying saucer” from another world here. Since that time, the public has fixated on understanding what secrets are located beneath and around the sands of Groom Lake.

One of the most well-defended facilities in the world, Area 51’s most important function is not so much its place in Pop Culture as an alien crash-landing site. Instead, its importance lies in being a proving ground for some of the most advanced, exotic US military systems and weapons.

To Offset Ukrainian Confidence, Putin May Employ More Destructive Weapons: Russia can no longer say that it definitively holds the advantage in the war in Ukraine. When drones were harder to obtain in large numbers and couldn’t inflict the kind of damage they do today, Russia had the upper hand – but today, Moscow is facing a growing challenge from Ukraine, and more analysts are suggesting that Russia is actually on the back foot.

Moscow possessed a larger military and more manpower for much of the war, while Ukraine was heavily dependent on Western aid.

During a June 3 test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California, photographers captured the first B-21 Raider long-range stealth bomber prototype (called “Cerberus”) as it landed. The images show the aircraft’s outer trailing-edge control surfaces moving in opposite directions. One surface deflected upward.

An adjacent surface pointed down. Since those images were released, many have speculated that the B-21 generates drag differently than the older B-2 Spirit long-range stealth bomber.

The B-21 Raider was unveiled to the public at a ceremony December 2, 2022.

B-21 Raider.

At 8:30 this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the May Consumer Price Index, and the number U.S. President Donald J. Trump spent two years promising to bury is back: inflation rose 4.2 percent over the past 12 months. That is the highest reading since April 2023, the third consecutive monthly acceleration, and it arrives with five more CPI reports scheduled before the November midterms.

Warfare does two things: it obviously destroys, but it also forces adaptation upon the combatants. That is precisely what’s happening in the Iran War today. A leak of supposedly classified Russian intelligence documents has made its way onto the internet. Per those leaks, Moscow is not only supplying the Islamic Republic of Iran with Su-35 warplanes. The leaked contracts indicate that Russia is providing Iran with the weapons package needed to make those warplanes operational.

Oil prices may eventually hit $150 per barrel, according to economists. With the war in the Middle East heating up, oil prices are spiking as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Oil prices have been in a constant tug-of-war, fluctuating unpredictably with each passing day.

As the war continues, however, economists are certain that prices will continue to climb and remain high if a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran is not reached soon.

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Ukraine’s war effort has increasingly extended beyond the front lines to include deep drone strikes on oil infrastructure, attacks on military airfields, logistics interdiction, and the assassination of senior Russian military figures. Will the asymmetrical pressure force Putin to negotiate for peace? Probably not. While Ukraine’s campaign can impose high costs, forcing the Kremlin to modify its decision-making is another story.

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The Pressure Is On Russia – But Will It Work?: For much of the war in Ukraine, Russia has largely maintained the upper hand. It has also enjoyed relative protection from Ukrainian strikes in the form of Western reluctance to provide long-range weapons, and the geographical reality that Russia is a huge land mass with cities that are hard for Ukraine to reach. But that reality is changing, and Russia is now being forced to confront it. Ukrainian drone strikes are now reaching deeper into Russian territory than ever. Fuel shortages in Crimea prove that those strikes are working.

An annual event put on by members of Congress to honor fallen servicewomen was canceled this year after the Navy, Air Force and Space Force bowed out, citing Pentagon and White House policies on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Other branches either didn’t respond to the invite or cited scheduling conflicts. 
The Bipartisan Women’s Caucus’ 28th annual wreath-laying ceremony is typically held at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The Democratic Women’s Caucus announced the cancellation on Monday.

The American news media routinely castigated former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara as being little more than a “walking IBM machine.”

Indeed, his famous 2003 documentary with legendary filmmaker Errol Morris, The Fog of War, reinforces the point that, during his time as head of the Pentagon, McNamara was effectively a walking calculator.



Not only was McNamara the master of disaster during the Vietnam War, but he was also a cultish believer in the notion that technology will save us.

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Rumours are swirling around Westminster that the UK Government could try to avoid scrutiny for its long-delayed Defence Investment Plan.

Iran’s Charging of Tolls in the Strait of Hormuz – A Strategic Master Stroke?: Just when you think that the United States’ war with Iran can enter a peaceful phase, it burns again like a prairie fire. This time, it is the downing of an American Apache attack helicopter and the resulting self-defense air strikes from the United States. The Iranians have proved to be tough negotiators, dismissing many offers from President Donald Trump’s negotiating team.

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The last time that the United States carried out a military execution was in 1961. Officials hung Army soldier John Bennett at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl.
The Trump administration has a plan to potentially reinstitute the practice. Called Operation Resolute Justice, the U.S. Army would conduct executions of military prisons on death row if President Donald Trump approves them. Task & Purpose first reported details of the operation.

Last year, I got really close to a MiG-29 fighter at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. As a kid growing up in the 1980s and studying anything aviation at the time, I was pretty awestruck seeing this old-school Soviet fighter. I have included some pictures of the visit and a video. However, I kept thinking, where is the MiG-35? Well, it was built, but the numbers mean the supposed elite fighter might never get its due.

MiG-35 Fighter: The Numbers Problem Won’t Go Away 

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US-based Harbinger has introduced a new uncrewed hybrid-electric vehicle platform designed for defence and military use.

The road leading south out of Baghdad never looked like a typical killing field you’d imagine; it looked like farmland. Canals threaded between palm groves, wheat and date plots worked by the families who owned them, the Euphrates bending along the southwestern edge of all of it. If you ever rode those canal roads between 2004 and 2007, you learned fast not to trust any of it.

One of the greatest moments of my career was going to see a real Seawolf-class submarine, the USS Connecticut, in drydock in Groton, Connecticut, at Electric Boat back in 2004. But times change, and the wear and tear on this elite submarine is starting to mean her retirement is near, twenty-two years later. And now we have a date: 2031, but it won’t be without some drama, which seems typical of anything the U.S. Navy does these days.

USS Connecticut: The Math Problems and Retirement Dance

Seawolf-Class. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Seawolf-Class Submarine.

Iran and the United States: Headed Toward Economic Disaster? Iran and the United States are trading military blows after the downing of an American Apache attack helicopter that threatens to end the ceasefire and could plunge both countries into mass warfare once again. But Tehran and Washington must be concerned with alarming negative knock-on effects on their economies. The Americans are struggling with high inflation, and due to the blockade and war costs, as well as damages from air strikes, the Iranian economy is not performing well.

In a small area of Northern France, in a town called Seringes-et-Nesles, is a cemetery filled with soldiers who died fighting to keep France from falling to the Kaiser’s Germany during World War I.
The cemetery, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, holds the remains of 6,012 soldiers in plots A-D, some unidentified, as well as a memorial to the almost 300 who went missing and were never found.
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There are many interesting side stories about this cemetery. Famous poet Joyce Kilmer is buried here.

The Missile Issue For The US If It Returns To A Full Bombing Campaign Against Iran: The US air campaign against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, was militarily very successful, severely degrading Iran’s ballistic missile stockpiles and missile launchers, while decapitating its senior leadership.

Decapitation strikes have eliminated over 40 senior military and political leaders, and US and Israeli air strikes have hit over 1,000 targets.

Tomahawk Launch. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Tomahawk Block IV Missile. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Until now, President Donald J. Trump has kept to the ceasefire despite Iran’s provocations. He was reluctant to resume airstrikes because he believed negotiations were making progress. But the downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter on June 8 by forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps changed all that.  The IRGC followed up with missiles launched toward Jordan, Bahrain, and Qatar – just days after striking Israel.

“They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they have to pay the price!!!” President Donald J.

Officers on their way to the general and admiral ranks will have another benchmark to meet before picking their first star. 
The “Joint Warfighting Evaluation” will be used to assess the “operational analysis, communications, and decision-making skills” when officers are screened for promotion from O6 to O7, according to a recent memo from Undersecretary of Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata. Task & Purpose has confirmed that the memo, which has been shared on social media, is authentic.

Oil prices appear to have stabilized somewhat after falling to a seven-week nadir following Iran and Israel’s pause on strikes following intervention by American President Donald Trump to end the renewed hostilities. Global oil stockpiles, as well as a reduction in China’s crude oil imports, may be partially responsible for the stabilization in prices, as are modest amounts of oil transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The Future Prospects of Higher Prices: Entirely Plausible

President Donald Trump signs executive orders flanked by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.

Locked in a seeming stalemate, Iran and America would both like a favorable deal to end the ongoing war and to open the Strait of Hormuz. But the goals of both sides are separated by a vast divide that seems irreconcilable. The United States and Israel would like to ensure that Iran is unable to build a nuclear weapon, but Iran’s leadership sees a potential pledge that excludes the ability to manufacture such weaponry as detrimental to the regime’s survival. In the meantime, Iran’s economic prognosis is dire, with businesses that depend on internet connectivity most acutely affected.

Israel-based defence company Elbit Systems has expanded its E-LynX family of Software Defined Radios family with the launch of E-LynX UxS.

As Andrew Nydegger’s symptoms progressed, his doctor tried to figure out what was wrong.
The doctor sought an answer but couldn’t find one before going on leave for a couple of weeks. A nurse practitioner took over Nydegger’s case. Nydegger, a Korean translator in the United States Air Force at the time, found the switch unsettling.
“I kind of felt that he was a major, she was a captain, and he was a doctor. She was a nurse practitioner,” Nydegger told We Are The Mighty. “I felt like I was getting downgraded in care.

Moscow Isn’t Safe For Russia’s Own Generals: Car Bomb Kills The Man Who Fed Putin’s Artillery War: At 5:30 in the morning, in a neighborhood the Russian Defense Ministry built for its own officers, a BMW X3 pulled away from a residential high-rise and exploded. The blast in the Aviatorov microdistrict of Balashikha, just east of Moscow, killed the driver within moments of him starting to move, and by the next day, Russian independent media had put a name on the body that Russian authorities still refuse to say out loud.

America And Iran Just Traded Strikes Over The Apache Helicopter. What Happens Now Decides The War: The retaliation everyone saw coming arrived on schedule, and so did the counter-retaliation. Tuesday evening, US Central Command launched what it called self-defense strikes against Iran for the downing of an Army Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, and by early Wednesday, Iran had answered with missiles and drones against American bases across the Gulf, a sequence that has jolted the fragile truce and put the entire diplomatic endgame of this war in the balance.

Most commentary from Washington this month treats the Lebanon problem as a matter of persuasion. Lean on Israel hard enough, dangle a broad enough bargain, and the strikes stop, and the diplomats finish their work.

That reading isn’t crazy. But it rests on an assumption the past two months have demolished — that Jerusalem and Washington are fighting the same war and disagree only on when to stop.

F-16I Fighter from Israel. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

They aren’t, and they don’t.

Three Ceasefires in Two Months Should Have Settled the Question
Look at what happened.

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House lawmakers wonder whether new missions could help keep the Warthog useful.

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Over the years, the Congressional Research Service has regularly reported on issues with the LSM

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One of the Navy SEALs’ most characteristic missions are “over-the-beach” (OTB) operations, and the elite unit regularly practices them.

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A U.S. Navy-operated autonomous surface vessel (ASV) built by Saronic rescued two U.S.

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Footage released on June 11 has show the first test model of the Indian Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) fifth generation fighter program’s radar cross section, which appeared at the Indian Air Force Academy, located in Dundigal. The fighter model used for radar cross section testing closely resembles artwork of the next generation fighter design shown by official defence sources in the past.

Winter Storm Uri ripped through Texas in January 2021. The frigid temperatures froze pipes, which then burst and caused flooding in aging barracks at Fort Hood, many of which were overdue for renovations and had vulnerable mechanical and utility systems. The burst pipes, damaged sprinkler systems, and frozen heating, ventilation, and air conditioning coils affected over 30 barracks, forcing soldiers to relocate and causing nearly $50 million in damage.