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…
Summary and Key Points: On April 23, 1991, Secretary of the Air Force Donald Rice announced that the Lockheed YF-22 had won the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition, and the Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II went from contender to museum piece in a single press conference. The flight tests had confirmed…
Summary and Key Points: The Soviet Navy wanted a submarine that could dive deeper, run quieter, and take more punishment than steel-hulled boats, so it built the Sierra II around a titanium pressure hull. The engineering worked. The economics did not. Titanium had to be welded in sealed, argon-filled workspaces…
Summary and Key Points: In 2004, the United States flew the fastest air-breathing aircraft in history, but the effort then stalled. NASA’s X-43A reached Mach 9.6 that November, but the Vision for Space Exploration had already pulled NASA toward the Moon and Mars; the X-43B and X-43C were canceled, and…
The Brief: Delaware faces legal uncertainty following contrasting court rulings on state firearm regulations. A federal court determined that individuals possess a constitutional right to assemble unserialized firearms for personal self-defense. Conversely, the Delaware Supreme Court upheld restrictions requiring direct adult supervision for 18-to-20-year-olds purchasing or using firearms. These decisions…
Summary and Key Points: Some naval strategists now ask whether the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers, the centerpieces of American sea power for more than 80 years, can still survive a war with China. Beijing has spent years building weapons meant to answer that question for them, starting with the DF-26,…
A new agreement with Denmark and Greenland gives the United States a path to two additional military sites, wider access across the Arctic island and an expanded role for its only existing base. But key questions remain unanswered. The deal, signed Sept. 22, preserves Danish sovereignty and Greenlanders’ right to…
Summary and Key Points: On April 23, 1991, Secretary of the Air Force Donald Rice…
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
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