The next step toward further integrating semiautonomous aircraft into the U.S. Air Force and building trust with human operators would be through simulations and training exercises, a former Air Force secretary said.Frank Kendall, the Air Force’s 26th secretary who served under former President Joe Biden, said in a Thursday roundtable hosted by Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies that gathering experience in the field and through simulations help operators establish trust with autonomous systems, like the Collaborative Combat Aircraft.“You have to accumulate a basis for trust over time, and so I think we just need to think carefully about how we…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.  Targeting military assets isn’t going to wreck the global economy, but targeting key infrastructure could. The damage that has already been done to oil and natural gas infrastructure in the Middle East is going to take years to fully repair and rebuild. But so far, the damage that has been done has been somewhat limited. If both sides decide to start conducting all-out attacks on oil and gas infrastructure, the world would be facing an unprecedented energy crisis with no end in sight. Unfortunately, it…

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The U.S. Air Force is out to find an air defense missile system to defend the service’s installations against cruise missiles and drones.The goal is to “identify industry partners capable of providing a Ground-Based Launcher solution to protect United States Air Force assets,” according to a Request for Information submitted by the service. The request has a response deadline of Aug. 6. The RFI lists requirements that suggest an air defense system that can handle a variety of threats. In addition to intercepting cruise missiles, the Air Force wants missiles that can destroy drones ranging in size from Group 1…

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMost people’s preparedness plan is a pile of gear in a closet. The tags are still on. Nothing’s been tested. Nothing’s been trained. Kevin Estela has a name for that approach: the easy button. And it doesn’t work. Kevin joined me on the podcast to talk about what does work. He taught high school history for 14 years before going full-time into wilderness instruction, first as director of training at a private company and now through his own work. He’s the author of 101 Skills You Need to Survive in the Woods and Beyond…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. To shoot or not to shoot, that was the question I had been mulling over in my mind since the small herd of pronghorn antelope had topped the ridge about a quarter mile away. The herd buck, now leisurely following the seven does and fawns toward the water hole, was a good one by any standards. I sat in my pit blind studying him closely with my binoculars—his horns were shiny black and heavy at the base, with wide prongs. I estimated the horns at…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics The uni knot is one of the most used connections in fishing across all genres of the sport. From flyfishing a high mountain trout stream to targeting tuna offshore, it has a place in any anglers’ repertoire. First published in the Ashley Book of Knotsas the gallows knot in 1944, the uni wouldn’t infiltrate the fishing scene until the 1960s. Early in the decade, noted angler Norman Duncan adopted it and it quickly caught on in his angling circles as the Duncan Loop. Even today, some…

A U.S. service member was killed on Saturday “during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance” in northern Iraq, U.S. Central Command said.The unexploded ordnance was from a “downed Iranian one-way attack drone,” Central Command said in a statement released Sunday.The death of the U.S. service member in Iraq follows in the wake of two U.S. service members killed in action on Friday in an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack on U.S. and partner forces in Jordan, U.S. Central Command announced. Four more troops had to be medically evacuated to hospitals in Jordan. Those four service members have since been…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. This story, “Night of the Cottonmouth,” appeared in the July 1971 issue of Outdoor Life. You can read more about Paul E. Allen and his snake hunting background (including how his father died from a cobra bite) here. The saw grass was eight feet high and very thick. I was hip-deep in the warm water of the roadside ditch, able to see only a step or two in any direction, and I was moving very cautiously. I knew that danger of the deadliest kind lurked…

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