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Marine arrested on suspicion of killing a woman in Okinawa
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A tank with an unmanned turret and an armored crew capsule was shown off in 2015, kept out of its own country’s war because cheap drones might kill it, and is now being redrawn around a 152mm gun with 40 rounds, 24 in the autoloader, and a drone on a tether
Summary and Key Points: Russia revealed the T-14 Armata in 2015 with a 125mm 2A82-1M smoothbore, an unmanned turret, and…
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US Marine Arrested for Alleged Murder of a Woman on Okinawa, Triggers Outrage From Japan
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa,…
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A 65,000-ton aircraft carrier that cost £6.2 billion and £96 million a year to keep defends itself with three Gatling guns that reach about two kilometers and nothing that fires farther, leans on destroyers its navy is short of, and keeps getting sunk in exercises
Summary and Key Points: The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, displace…
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I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: 37,000,000 Mosin-Nagant Rifles Were Built in Russia Alone, and Donbas Conscripts Carried Them Into Ukraine in 2022
Summary and Key Points: The Russian Imperial Army adopted the Mosin-Nagant in 1891, marrying Captain Sergei Mosin’s bolt to Léon…
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The US Military Destroyed $600,000,000 in SR-71 Blackbird Parts After Retirement, the Jet Needs 300 Hours of Maintenance per Flight Hour, and NASA Still Wants to Fly One
Will the SR-71 Blackbird and F-14 Tomcat be flying again soon, at least on a limited basis? Without a doubt,…
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Lockheed Drew Up an SR-71 Blackbird Firing 210-Kiloton Nuclear Missiles From 80,000 Feet at Mach 3.2, Range 500 Nautical Miles, and Half Would Have Missed
Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird began flight testing on December 22, 1964, and, in 1966, deployed from…
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Four US Navy battleships mothballed for decades came back in 1982 for $1.7 billion to answer a Soviet nuclear battlecruiser, one plan cut off an aft 16-inch turret for a Harrier flight deck, the Navy bolted on 32 Tomahawks and 16 Harpoons instead, and all four were gone by 1992
Summary and Key Points: The US Navy mothballed and reactivated its four Iowa-class battleships for decades, but brought them all…
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Did a Real Hessian Soldier Inspire the Headless Horseman?
Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman is supposed to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball during the…
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Senate Blocks Report on Nine Americans Killed in the West Bank
The U.S. Senate blocked a measure Sept. 29 that would have required the State Department to account for the deaths…
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