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AFT: Defender Attention Staff Sgt. Alyssa Raines, a defender with the 442nd Security Forces Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and student at the Integrated Defense Leadership Course, scans for opposing forces during an exercise at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center, Ohio, July 22. (Eric M. White/Air Force) (Eric White/910th Airlift Wing Public Affair)

 

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Chinese Officer Cadet training with the RN on a two week exchange

 

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A US Marine with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division provides security during Large Scale Exercise 21 at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii, Aug. 9, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jacob Wilson/Released.

DARPA's 'guided bullets' are a sniper's dream - Asia Times

First off, it's classified, and we don't know if it is in use with American forces, covert or otherwise, in some part of the world. Secondly, experts say

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The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) transits the eastern Pacific Ocean. Gabrielle Giffords is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South's mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Allen Michael Amani)

It's the US naval missile China will fear - Asia Times

The ship-mounted, over-the-horizon Naval Strike Missile (NSM) is a four-metre long, 880-pound weapon that features a launch phase solid-propellant rocket

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AFT: Cool Relief A Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit provides fresh water to a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 20. (Sgt. Samuel Ruiz/Marine Corps). (U.S. Central Command Public Affa)

 

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TRANSCOM boss vows to ramp up what is already one of the largest airlift operations in history

“My commitment is to ensure that airlift is never the constraint in this operation.”

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AFT: U.S. Marine Corps Marines and United States Air Force airmen lead Afghan citizens aboard a C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.(U.S. Department of Defense)

 

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Japan's F-X 'Godzilla' fighter is taking shape - Asia Times

Godzilla is coming. No, we're not kidding. Godzilla is indeed coming to Japan. But it's not exactly the movie monster we all know and love, for his cool

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Famed A-10 Warthog pioneer passes away - Asia Times

Pierre Spey, one of the most interesting and controversial aircraft designers and a Pentagon nemesis, died this week at the age of 83. Spey was

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AFT: Riding the Rainbow A U.S. Marine with Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, fast ropes aboard the amphibious assault ship America in the Solomon Sea, Aug. 6. (Lance Cpl. Malik Lewis/Marine Corps) (Lance Cpl. Malik Lewis/31st Marine Expeditionary Unit)

 

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Military Daily News

Daily updates of everything that you need know about what is going on in the military community and abroad including military gear and equipment, breaking news, international news and more.

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On August 23, Canadians commemorate Black Ribbon Day, the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Communism and Nazism in Europe.

Established through a unanimous resolution of Canada's Parliament in 2009, Black Ribbon Day coincides with the anniversary of the signing of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Nazi Germany and the Communist Soviet Union. Soon after the Pact was signed, the two regimes jointly invaded and dismembered Poland, starting World War II. Millions of men, women and children were murdered, imprisoned, and subjected to dreadful brutality by the Nazi and Soviet regimes.

On Black Ribbon Day, we honour the memory of millions of innocent victims of Nazi Germany and the Communist Soviet Union.

 

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Elite SAS troops rescued in dramatic desert operation - Asia Times

The Hercules transport from RAF 47 Squadron flew low and slow, heading for a secret coordinate deep in Afghanistan, in pitch darkness. The crew — sporting

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Medical support personnel from the 86th Medical Group and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center help an Afghan mother and family off a U.S. Air Force C-17, call sign Reach 828, moments after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 21. (Tech Sgt. Zachary Boyer/Air Force) (Air Mobility Command Public Affa

Afghan baby born on C-17 bound for Germany named ‘Reach,’ after the jet’s call sign

The baby girl was board in the cargo bay of Reach 828.

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