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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-military-drug-cartels.html https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-directs-pentagon-prepare-military-options-drug-cartels/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07pdel9vyjo

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsYaNM8GAhw

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2025/06/armys-not-sure-what-its-new-executive-innovation-corps-will-actually-do/406325/

Trying to ignore any political aspects, this could have some serious implications for the US Military (and their allies): https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhartung/2025/05/31/pouring-funds-into-untested-weapons-is-a-recipe-for-failure/?ss=aerospace-defense...

So a 3rd 747 might be modified to serve as an interim presidential transport until the definitive airframes arrive ? https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/01/trump-air-force-one-l3-harris-boeing-delays.html

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modernizing-defense-acquisitions-and-spurring-innovation-in-the-defense-industrial-base/

This thread is to examine the aircraft, systems, and networks that were involved in the 'electronic barrier' that was part of the McNamara Line, a defensive line developed to block North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers from accessing South Vietnam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The aircraft...

This topic is for discussion of the expected announcement of a contract award for the US Navy F/A-XX and will be renamed once the chosen contractor is Northrop Grumman named.

The Pale Ale designator refers to a U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) program that operates and maintains Bombardier Q200 (former De Havilland Canada Dash-8-201/202) reconnaissance aircraft as as "Transit Zone Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA)" to support counternarcotics detection monitoring...

Electra Aero based in Virginia, USA has been flying their EL-2 "Goldfinch" eSTOL prototype this year. View: https://youtu.be/esTykmreHuQ?si=kYyR5twOLkFumFiU Recent events include demonstrations for DoD and even giving the NASA administrator a ride View...

https://www.twz.com/news-features/odd-activity-at-chinese-submarine-shipyard-draws-interest

It has been pretty clear to all of us compulsive list-makers that for a few years now the allocation of new designations by the U.S. Department of Defense has stopped following rigorous logic, and is often based on pleasing the contractors by keeping all or part of their inhouse designations...

I stumbled upon this while reading Edward Hujsak's 1994 The Future of U.S. Rocketry. ULLV stands for "Ultra Large Launch Vehicle" This is a concept by the "Perigee West Company of La Jolla, California", which Edward Hujsak happened to be the president of, the company got several hundred...

A very large cargo plane to carry very large wind turbine blades. https://radia.com/windrunner

For this contest, the Hughes H-485,Bell T-37 and Lockheed,but no other contenders are known. American Aviation 1966.

Hello all. Today I was doing some research into the AGS's LRLAP shells, trying to confirm a hunch I have that the original unit price was drastically lower than the stated $800,000-$1,000,000. I sort of confirmed that, as well as finding information saying the AGS was supposed to fire other...

For all the issues Falcon had in Vietnam, it has to be remembered that unlike Sparrow and Sidewinder, every Falcon kill was an impact kill, implying that on those occasions when things actually worked, it might have been the better missile. AIM-4H was in development to sort out Falcon's worst...

Hi everyone, This subject has been partially discussed in the context of "US Army without McNamara or Vietnam" discussions, but I wanted to get deeper. It is no surprise that many US Army programs, especially in the 1960's, ended in abject failure or failed to yield a durable, massively used...

The United States and her allies are sending significant quanties of munitions to Ukraine. This is in response to what Russia calls its "special operation" and most others call the Russian Invasion which escalated in February 2022. Here is a link to the Wikipedia page of military aid to...