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This Photo Could Have Changed the US Air Force Forever: Meet the YF-23, and It Could Have ‘Replaced’ the F-22 Raptor
Summary and Key Points: More than three decades after the Air Force picked Lockheed’s YF-22 over Northrop’s YF-23, aviation fans still argue about whether it chose wrong. The Air Force itself conceded the YF-23 was stealthier and faster. What it doubted was Northrop. The B-2 bomber was drowning in cost overruns, another Northrop missile program was ballooning, and Lockheed had…
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Operation Rolling Thunder: America's Air War Begins | Vietnam in HD (S1, E1) | Full Episode
The air war over Vietnam, start to finish. Full episode.
Marine Corps Ground Combat Element 2040 Plan Explained
The Marine Corps has revealed its Ground Combat Element 2040 plan, a fiscal year 2026 framework that sets how infantry, fires, and reconnaissance units are supposed to fight through 2040. The service published the document…
VIXINO Went From Budget Knives to THIS
VIXINO built cheap knives. Then they built this one.
Anthropic loses legal fight to shed DOD’s designation as a ‘supply-chain risk’
Anthropic will remain a Pentagon-designated supply-chain risk, thanks to federal judges who ruled that the Defense Department can prohibit its employees and contractors from using the AI company's products for DOD business..The designation has been…
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Polish defense official says US has decided to establish a base in Poland
Poland will fulfill a longtime goal of hosting a permanent U.S. military base, a Polish defense leader said Friday, adding…
Senate Votes Down Attempt To Halt Iran War
The Senate narrowly rejected a war powers resolution that would have required President Donald Trump to end the Iran war…
50 US Troops Helped Ecuador Arrest More than 30 People Linked to Mexican Drug Cartel
Fifty U.S. troops assisted Ecuadorian officials in arresting more than 30 members of a Mexican drug cartel. The Drug Enforcement…
Stealth Fighter Down: $334,000,000 F-22 Raptor Was ‘Shot Down’ By Navy EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare Plane
Summary and Key Points: One of the most talked-about F-22 “kills” in training did not come from a rival fighter.…
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The Great US Marine Corps Reboot Has Arrived
Summary and Key Points: Six years after Force Design 2030 began stripping out its tanks, the Marine Corps is looking even further ahead. Its Ground Combat Element 2040 roadmap, released this summer, keeps the Corps built around light, dispersed units capable of threatening Chinese ships from islands and coastlines. It…
‘The Flight Deck Was Too Short’: France Took 14 Years to Build Its Only Nuclear Aircraft Carrier and the Propeller Fell Off
Summary and Key Points: France wanted a nuclear aircraft carrier so it would never have to depend on land bases or allied decks to project air power. It got one, the Charles de Gaulle, the only nuclear-powered carrier outside the U.S. Navy. But the second ship France planned was never…
The Ultimate Guide to Eating (and Donating) Roadkill
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Jess Johnson heard the crash before she saw it, and she knew exactly what the sound meant: Yet another vehicle careening down the highway in front of her house had hit a whitetail deer. So…
H2Go USB or Solar Water Purifier for “Unlimited” Water Treatment – reThinkSurvival.com
This H2Go Global Water Purifier (and it’s military counterpart, the H2Go Prime Water Purifier) is new to me, but apparently it’s been around for several years. The device uses sunlight and table salt to create a chlorine solution for water treatment and is capable of treating tens of thousands of…
The US Air Force Built 195 F-22s Instead of 750 and Destroyed the Tooling to Make More — Now China Has Exactly the Air Force the Raptor Was Designed to Defeat
Summary and Key Points: The F-22 Raptor was built to beat massed Soviet fighters over Europe, and by 2009 that threat was gone. With the United States fighting insurgents who had no air forces to speak of, Washington ended production of the world’s premier air superiority fighter. The bet made…
The Gun Safety Was On… And That Changed Everything
The video uses a real Ohio restaurant shooting attempt as a cautionary example about firearm safeties: the gun’s manual safety likely prevented the ex-husband from firing, giving a waiter time to tackle him. The speaker argues that many new gun owners overvalue a manual safety as reassurance, but under stress…
Video: I Fished Ground Zero for the Ambler Road
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. In October the Trump administration overruled the Bureau of Land Management to greenlight the Ambler Road, a proposed 211-mile corridor that would cut through the wilderness south of the Brooks Range and connect the Dalton…
The US Navy Has Nothing Like It: Japan’s Sōryū-class Lithium-Ion Submarines Don’t Need Nuclear Power to Be a Powerhouse (Not Made in USA)
Summary and Key Points: When JS Soryu entered service in 2009, Japan was waking up to China’s naval buildup in the East and South China Seas, and it wanted a submarine that could stay hidden longer and reach farther. The Soryu class, developed from the earlier Oyashio design, delivered that…