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The sudden recent escalation of the Iran war has cast renewed attention on its civilian toll after Iran reported 18 dead in the last U.S. assault, including four killed and dozens wounded at a wedding.Iran’s health minister said 18 people were killed and 108 wounded in Tuesday night’s U.S. strikes across Iran. The Iranian Red Crescent said four people were killed and 67 wounded at a wedding ceremony near the coast of the Strait of Hormuz.The return of combat operations has alarmed countries throughout the region, as Iran launched missile and drone attacks against what it said were U.S. assets…

The Department of Veterans Affairs is nearly tripling the ceiling on its contract with Oracle to modernize the agency’s electronic health record system, yet lawmakers left a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday without clear answers about why the increase is necessary or how much taxpayers will ultimately pay.VA’s original electronic health record contract had a ceiling of roughly $10 billion. The department has increased that ceiling to roughly $27 billion, an increase of about $17 billion.The nearly $27 billion figure discussed repeatedly during Wednesday’s hearing is not money VA has already spent. It is the maximum potential value of…

​There is a big difference between reading a survival blog and actually living through a disaster. You may have all the highest-rated gear, or shelves filled with top freeze-dried meals, but you have no way of knowing what really works. If a severe storm hits, or a local power grid collapse occurs, you don’t want to be opening boxes of unused gear in the dark. The middle of a disaster is a bad time to discover that your main backup power source needs to be charged, or your manual can opener is missing from your emergency bin. ​The best way…

Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. Modern hunting rifles, which borrow many of their features from the precision shooting world, are optimized for long-range shooting — but they don’t have the handling or ergonomics for making accurate offhand shots. Traditional rifles have great handling — but they don’t have the same level of accuracy for long-range shooting. These are, at least, the assumptions that so many hunters make about rifles today. That’s why on this week’s episode of the Outdoor Life Podcast, I’m talking to senior staff writer Tyler Freel…

A Navy corpsman was found dead near a South Carolina waterway on Sunday after he was last seen days earlier close to the Broad River Bridge.The body of Yu Wei Huo, 33, was found near the river’s shore, according to the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office, which said that an autopsy is pending to determine the cause of death. HM3 Huo, from Flushing, New York, worked as a dental assistant and was stationed at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Paris Island, the Corps confirmed. “Out of respect for the sailor’s family and loved ones, no additional details will be released…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. Food plots are great, agricultural crops are good too, but during the right window in mid-fall, nothing draws in deer like acorns. These oak tree nuts are packed with nutrients, they’re often available in large quantities, and they allow deer to feed while staying within the cover of the woods. But not all oaks and their acorns are created equal. There are about 90 different native oak species in the U.S. To keep this simple for deer…

The U.S. Army moved its Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) program from prototyping to production earlier this week with a combined $192 million award to Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industries.A cornerstone of the Army’s ground system modernization effort, TITAN was designed to simplify the data-gathering process for soldiers aiming at far-off targets. The Army chose Palantir as the prime contractor to develop the next-generation targeting system in 2024.Palantir, which received $127 million, will lead TITAN’s production, alongside L3 Harris Technologies, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Strategic Technology Consulting and World Wide Technology. Anduril, which received $65 million under the award, will…

The Navy’s top officer issued a directive to get high-energy lasers into sailors’ hands as soon as possible to adapt to the modern combat environment.Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle released his 10th C-NOte on Wednesday, saying the service needs to incorporate directed energy technology sooner rather than later to combat a threat environment in which mass-produced, low-cost drones challenge traditional munitions.“The question is no longer whether these systems work—it is how quickly we can field them across the fleet and place them in the hands of sailors,” Caudle said. “For too long, we have viewed directed energy as…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Three Mississippi alligator hunters were on the water after midnight on August 28 searching for what turned out to be an absolutely massive gator. They were on an unidentified river in Mississippi’s West Central Zone on the opening of the state-sanctioned alligator hunting season. John Raines of Ripley, Mississippi, had the state gator tag. His two buddies Morgan Perkins and Ben Holcomb accompanied him that night in Raines’ 18-foot aluminum boat. The tag allowed Raines to take one gator under 7 feet long, plus a…