This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.  A really big space rock is going to have a very close encounter with our planet on Monday. Based on current calculations, we are being told that we don’t have anything to be concerned about, but if this really big space rock actually hit a major city, it would cause a catastrophic amount of damage. So let’s hope that what the astronomers are telling us is correct. Of course, this is not the only asteroid that has come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2026. So…

Lawmakers on Friday accused the Pentagon of gutting a congressionally mandated effort to reduce civilian harm after a new Inspector General investigation found the Defense Department had started shutting down the initiative despite a legal requirement to maintain it. During a House Armed Services Committee hearing, lawmakers pressed Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Acting Army Chief of Staff Gen. Christopher LaNeve over the watchdog’s report that the DoD had proposed hollowing out civilian harm mitigation efforts while prematurely scaling back parts of the program across the military. That move, the congressmen said, was against the law. Rep. Adam Smith of…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics This story, “The Last Big Bass: Old Fighter,” appeared in the October 1973 issue of Outdoor Life. The river was quiet. An owl had been calling earlier in the evening, but now it was close to midnight, and he had stopped. Occasionally a big bullfrog downstream broke the stillness with a series of bellows, then again there was only the constant rushing of water over a nearby shoal. Wrapped in quilts, I lay beneath a makeshift lean-to made of a big brown tarpaulin that kept off…

Army leaders struggled Friday to respond to congressional furor over the Pentagon’s decision to abruptly cancel a deployment of more than 4,000 soldiers to Poland this month. Acting Army Chief of Staff Gen. Christopher LaNeve said in an Army budget hearing that the order to halt a planned 9-month rotation to Europe by 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division to Eastern Europe came from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. LaNeve and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said they were informed of the order and had been consulted, but they wouldn’t provide the exact timing of the decision. On May 1,…

HONOLULU — Anduril is slated to deliver at least 3,000 surface-launched cruise missiles to the U.S. Army beginning in 2027, part of an effort to quickly advance affordable munitions procurement at scale.Over the course of the three-year framework agreement, Anduril will supply the Army with a minimum of 1,000 surface-launched Barracuda-500Ms per year, according to a company release.“Long-range precision fires and stand-off strike weapons are fundamental to America’s ability to deter our adversaries, but existing solutions are too expensive, too exquisite and too hard to produce at scale,” the release states.Meant for long-range strikes and designed for a variety of…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The suppressor landscape is rapidly shifting. The jack-of-all-trades silencers that once dominated the market have had to make room for specialized suppressors that excel at specific tasks. That’s why we conducted a test to put a spotlight on cans catering to two growing niches: competitive long-range rifle shooters, and hunters who are concerned with the weight of their gear. Table of Contents Goals of the Test With these end users in mind, we gathered a field of suppressors, some brand new,…

The U.S. Army is moving beyond battling individual drone threats as it experiments with tactics to combat — and attack with — throngs of unmanned aircraft in saturated skies. The latest iteration of Project Flytrap, a multinational exercise to test new drone technologies in a realistic conflict setting, pitted U.S. and allied forces against each other in scenarios that featured drone swarms, jamming systems and counter-UAS defenses that continue to redefine modern warfare.Army leaders have emphasized the need to integrate drones into doctrine and tactics, as they say the rise of inexpensive, mass-produced drones have forced the service to rethink…

LAOAG, Philippines — At one point during Exercise Balikatan 2026 in the Philippines, one regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps had personnel strewn across 17 locations in the archipelago, giving forces a chance to flex their muscle in dispersed, expeditionary operations.Held from Apr. 20 to May 8, Balikatan was a good testing ground for the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, or 3rd MLR.This agile Hawaii-based unit possesses more than 2,000 personnel. Designed to operate at the tip of the Marine Corps, the MLR was created in March 2022.1st Lt. Duncan Stoner, the unit’s director for communication strategy and, said his formation…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. REI’s biggest sale of the year starts today with deep discounts on tents, sleeping bags, chairs, coolers, apparel, and more. The product selection is huge and so are the discounts. If you’re looking for the best prices on gear we recommend, here are our favorite deals at REI right now. The the two-person Half Dome is now $200 to $250 depending on the color you choose. You…

Russia has begun implementing border controls and other measures to keep hantavirus at bay. These precautions aim to prevent the potential spread of the deadly Andes hantavirus strain, the country’s public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, has said. As a precaution, “Rospotrebnadzor – together with the Russian Border Service – has taken measures to strengthen border controls,” it said. Automated information systems are being used at the border to assess and minimize risks, it added, according to a report by RT. This current outbreak was discussed during a Rospotrebnadzor video conference on Tuesday, where the discussion centered on preventative measures. Hantaviruses are…

The U.S. Navy’s fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier will be delivered two years late because of limited construction space at the shipyard where it’s being built, according to the Navy.The service’s fiscal 2027 shipbuilding budget estimate, which was released in April, shows that USS Doris Miller’s arrival was bumped from February 2032 to February 2034 due to “constraints” at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard in Virginia. That delay, however, is a result of issues with the construction of the third Ford-class carrier, the CVN-80, or USS Enterprise.“The primary schedule driver for CVN-81 is the lack of available…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › We could all use some savings right not and luckily Palmetto State Armory is starting their week-long Memorial Day Sale today. Whether you need a new optic, range ammo, or gun, their sale has great products at great prices. Some of the best include 50% off a Holosun 407, $320 off a Vortex Strike Eagle 1-6×24 GEN2, a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield Plus for only $370, and 124 grain 9mm at 25 cents per round. Guns The PSA Sabre Enhanced…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Finesse techniques catch fish when aggressive moving baits fail to get bites, especially if you’ve created a secret rig that the fish haven’t seen before. But great techniques, like the Ned rig, rarely stay a secret. That’s exactly what happened to Ned Kehde, who invented the Ned rig in 2006. Kehde was more interested in catching numbers of bass rather than a couple of big bass throughout the day. He found the easiest technique to get more bites was to fish a jig head tipped with a small piece of plastic. Even…

House lawmakers and government watchdogs expressed skepticism Wednesday about the Defense Department’s ability to produce a clean financial audit by a Dec. 31, 2028, statutory deadline. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on the DoD years-long struggle to produce a clean financial audit despite claiming around half of the government’s discretionary spending.Congress passed a measure as part of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that requires the DoD to produce a clean audit by Dec. 31, 2028. “Clean” means a clear enough accounting of the military’s assets, what was budgeted and spent, along with evidence…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. If there’s one thing that bass anglers can agree on, it’s that the hardest fighting bass, pound for pound, is the smallmouth. From the Great Lakes to small stream-fed ponds across the Northern half of our country, these bronze beauties make drags scream. Even Southern anglers dream of catching giant smallmouth in heavy current. But to get in on this action, you need to be armed with an arsenal of the best smallmouth bass lures. Smallies are reactionary feeders, and that…

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Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics There are certain things that seem to end up in the tackle box of every 7-year-old despite the fact that they’ll probably never get used. There’s a giant red-and-white Dardevle that Granddad says is good for the pike that little you failed to realize didn’t exist in your home lake. There’s a pack of purple plastic worms that are longer than any fish you’d ever caught in your short life. And then there’s an assortment of colorful foam bluegill popper flies. I had at least a…

This article was originally published by Justin M. Ptak at The Mises Institute.  There is something almost absurd about a government minting money at a loss. A coin—the most basic unit—becomes instead a confession, not just of inefficiency, but of a deeper fracture between what money is supposed to represent and what it has become. The American penny collapsed under that weight—3.69 cents for every penny minted. Thus, it cost multiples of its face value to produce—a financial contradiction sustained for years out of habit and political inertia. Now the nickel stands in the same position, costing far more to…

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RIGA, Latvia — Exercising in Latvia’s dense pine and birch forests this week, local troops found themselves in an unfair fight against a new enemy: unmanned ground vehicles.As NATO tries to keep pace with fast-changing drone warfare, the alliance used Latvia’s Crystal Arrow exercise to test unmanned ground combat, equipping opposing forces with wheeled robots. The systems gave the red team an element of surprise over a blue team relying only on aerial drones, said Lt. Col. Andris Brūveris, the Latvian battalion commander leading the opposing side.“They are force multipliers, and they are here to stay,” said Brūveris, who commands…

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