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Guns & Gear
The Only Navy Warship Authorized to Fly a Pirate Flag at Sea
Although there are dozens of active Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers in the U.S. Navy’s fleet, there’s something special about…
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Task force guide tells troops how to identify, react, hide from drones
A new handbook gives troops pointers on how to scan the sky for drones, how to estimate the length of…
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We Learned Nothing from 9/11
Following the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, a bipartisan commission met to examine the evolution of…
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Catholic Bishops Just Walked Into The AR-15 Ban Fight
The video argues that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus brief in a Supreme Court case over…
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The US Air Force Built Only 21 B-2 Spirits and They Cost About $2,000,000,000 Each. It Wants at Least 100 B-21 Raiders at Roughly $750,000,000 Apiece.
Summary and Key Points: The US Air Force built 21 B-2 Spirits, and each one cost about $2,000,000,000. That figure…
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F-117 Nighthawks Flew 2 Percent of Desert Storm’s Sorties and Hit 40 Percent of the Targets — More Than 1,500 of Them in 43 Nights, Without a Single Loss. 8 Years Later a 1961 Soviet Missile Shot 1 Down.
Summary and Key Points: In Operation Desert Storm, the F-117 Nighthawk flew 2 percent of the combat sorties and struck…
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A UK Ministry of Defence Official Says GCAP Fighter Will Carry Twice the Internal Weapons Payload of an F-35 and Control Uncrewed Aircraft Alongside It. Almost Nothing Else About the Aircraft Is Public.
Summary and Key Points: Britain, Japan, and Italy intend to field a sixth-generation stealth fighter by 2035, and the money…
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How a US Marine Went to Somalia and Became a Warlord
Mohamed Farrah Aidid was one of Somalia’s most dangerous and aggressive warlords. He was instrumental in the overthrow of communist…
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Japan’s Electromagnetic Railgun Has Fired More Than 100 Shots Without Replacing Its Rails. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 on Its Own Railgun and Shut the Program Down in 2021.
Summary and Key Points: The US Navy spent about $500,000,000 on an electromagnetic railgun and effectively shut the program down…
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Personal Defense
Iran attack on base in Jordan damaged American military aircraft, US official says
Iranian strikes damaged multiple American military aircraft this week on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, a U.S. official…
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