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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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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 65,000 tonnes, carry 921 crew, and launch F-35B STOVL fighters from a ski jump, with no catapults or arresting gear. Each costs £6.2 billion and £96 million a year to…
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 Nagant’s magazine and firing the rimmed 7.62x54R cartridge still in service today. Remington and New England Westinghouse built 3.3 million for the Tsar before the Bolsheviks defaulted. More than 37…
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, the Lockheed “Skunk Works” SR-71 spy plane and the Grumman F-14 fighter plane are two of the most popular and iconic warbirds of the Cold War era: the former because…
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 Beale Air Force Base, cruising at Mach 3.2 near 90,000 feet on two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines. Skunk Works engineer Ben Rich, Kelly Johnson’s successor, proposed the SR-71(Bx), carrying…
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 back under President Reagan’s 600-ship Navy in 1982 as a $1.7 billion response to the Soviet Kirov-class nuclear battlecruisers and Kiev-class carriers. A proposal to replace the aft 16-inch turret…
Marine Who Helped Rescue Officers at Ground Zero on 9/11
Jason Thomas had already left the Marine Corps when the first plane hit. He had a newborn daughter in a car seat, a new house on Long Island, and a criminal justice class waiting for him at John Jay College in Manhattan. His camouflage utilities were in the trunk of…