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Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Sent 2 North Korean Prisoners of War to South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ukraine has sent two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, following months of consultations between Kyiv and Seoul after the soldiers were captured in Russia’s Kursk region in 2025. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry did not directly confirm Zelenskyy’s comments but said it…
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BIG. HONKIN'. SPIDERS.
The article is a light, anecdotal post about encountering unusually large spiders in different places and identifying them as wolf spiders or, more likely in one case, giant house spiders. It describes how these spiders are startling but mostly harmless, with a focus on their size, habits, and seasonal wandering…
Russia Worked Out That Ammunition Stored in the Fighting Compartment Was Blowing Its Tanks Apart, So the T-90M Got a Bustle Magazine With Blowout Panels. It Kept the Carousel Under the Crew Anyway. Oryx Has Now Documented 159 T-90M Losses — More Than Russia Had When the War Began.
Summary and Key Points: Russian studies of combat experience reached the correct conclusion: Russian tanks throw their turrets into the air because the ammunition is stored in the fighting compartment with the crew. So the T-90M was given a welded turret with a bustle magazine at the rear, behind blowout…
The US Navy’s Iowa-Class Battleships Cost a Fortune for a Few Years at Sea. NASA’s SR-71 Blackbird Is Next
Summary and Key Points: NASA has moved an SR-71 Blackbird from its display stand at Edwards Air Force Base into a hangar and is assembling a team to put it back in the air. According to reporting in Aviation Week, the agency has approached former SR-71A personnel for help. That…
9/11’s Forgotten Lesson – 19FortyFive
On a sunny, crisp early-fall New England morning, I strolled across the leafy central quad in the middle of campus. I had to register for classes in person, and to avoid the crowds, I got there right as the doors opened. After completing that task, I met a friend and…
Marine Corps Officially Updates Religious Codes, Imposes Revision Deadlines Under DOD Directive
The U.S. Marine Corps is following the Department of Defense (DOD) and Air Force, issuing new deadlines for service members to revise their religious affiliation as part of a major shift in the U.S. Armed Forces that began months ago. On Tuesday, the Marine Corps published its own official Marine…
‘Seals and Gaskets Have Dried Out and Would Crumble’: Why Bringing Back a Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird Into the Sky Might Takes Years and a Lot of Cash
Why Is NASA Restoring An SR-71 Blackbird? As reported in Aviation Week, NASA has reached out to several former engineers who worked on the famed spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird. It seems that if one puts the data points together and looks at some of the reporting, NASA apparently wants…