A whole sniper rifle. In a laptop case.

He’s not asking whether there was a deception.

The title is shouting. See what’s under it.

Old survival math. Worth knowing before you need it.

A corpsman who lived through Beirut. Hear it from him.

You’re in the driver’s seat when it starts. Now what?

Just the trailer so far. See what you think.

PARIS — The number of satellites launched to provide militaries and defense departments with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data from space is expected to increase more than fourfold in the next decade, industry consultancy Novaspace said.Defense-owned satellites for ISR will drive the future market in the segment, with 2,306 launched into orbit in the 2026-2035 period, from 485 launched in the decade through to 2025, according to data presented by Novaspace Chief Executive Officer Pacôme Révillon at the Space Defense and Security Summit here on Tuesday.The war in Ukraine has underscored the importance of space-based intelligence on the battlefield, while…

Your car keeps a record of you.

A year’s worth of 5.56 cans, ranked.

A loud headline. Worth checking before you repeat it.

Karl Erickson, 1999, out the door at an air show.

Three weeks of prep, laid out in one sitting.

He says going home means getting arrested. Long sit-down.

Afghanistan was the harder one. He explains why.

A war belt, laid out piece by piece.

Navy families evacuated from Naval Support Activity Bahrain cannot return to retrieve personal belongings, but service members outside Bahrain are able to designate someone to do it on their behalf, according to the Navy. Over six months after the evacuation of approximately 1,300 dependents from NSA Bahrain, some families remain separated from household goods, vehicles and pets that were left behind.The Navy says family members and non-essential personnel who remain outside Bahrain have not been authorized to return to retrieve personal property because of ongoing security concerns.“Service members and affiliated civilians are responsible for initiating the household goods move process…

The Navy awarded a $562 million fixed-price incentive contract to Boeing on Monday to kick off Lot 1 Low Rate Initial Production of the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker, the service announced.Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao teed up the LRIP and deployment announcement in May during a Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing. Boeing’s MQ-25A will become the Defense Department’s first unmanned tanker and the Navy’s first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft.The UAV is designed to extend the life of the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornets and relieve the fighter jets of their aerial refueling role so the aircraft can focus on…

Family members, survivors and first responders turned out Saturday to break ground on a visitor center at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial 18 years after the historic site first opened. The $100 million Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Visitor Education Center, located across a busy parkway from the Pentagon and its adjacent memorial in Arlington, Virginia, will contain exhibits and host programs about the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The facility, expected to open in 2029, will also include event spaces, a cafe and bookstore. The Pentagon Memorial first opened to the public on Sept. 11, 2008, the first of the…

The U.S. Department of the Air Force deployed on-orbit space control weapons in an effort to meet evolving threats from adversaries and boost space capabilities.Air Force Secretary Troy Meink announced Monday at the the Air & Space Forces Association’s 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference that the service has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against “hostile adversary action.”Meink announced in a keynote address Monday at the Air & Space Forces Association’s 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference that the service has on-orbit space control weapons that are capable of defending the joint force against “hostile…

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works will build four more Vectis uncrewed aircraft in addition to the prototype already under construction, the company said Monday, with the first expected to fly by the end of 2027.A full-scale Vectis model was publicly displayed for the first time on Monday at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, according to Lockheed. The announcement brings the total Vectis prototypes to five.“Domestic and international customer conversations, coupled with our internal analysis, continue to reinforce the urgent need for a survivable, autonomous and multi-mission capability,” Ron Fehlen, vice president…

A new conservation easement worth $29.3 million establishes year-round public access for hunting and fishing on roughly 20,000 acres of privately-owned timber land in northwest Montana. The deal, announced Thursday by the Trust for Public Land, is the fourth of its kind between TPL and the Stimson Lumber Company. The conservation easement permanently protects 20,629 acres of forest from development in Lincoln, Mineral, and Sanders counties. That includes 39 miles of streams, 309 acres of riparian habitat, and 472 acres of wetlands. This helps maintain water quality for some 30,000 downstream residents — a small but crucial effort as the…

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation has underscored growing concerns about the risks posed by AI. Coxon said that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Michael Hiatt, chief technology officer of Epirus, has taken a different tack.During a panel regarding counter-drone defenses at the Air and Space Cyber Conference, Hiatt noted that “everyone talks about cost asymmetry… and how important that solving that cost asymmetry problem is. But for the folks that are on the ground, the battle captain trying to make that assessment, it’s not a cost asymmetry…

This story, “Meanest Bear of All,” appeared in the January 1960 issue of Outdoor Life. This is not the usual adventure story about bear hunting. It can’t be, for we killed no bears. We worked long enough and hard enough, but such was our luck that the only mammal we collected for the American Museum of Natural History, which sponsored the expedition, was one common chipmunk. Although we were hunting in magnificently rugged country — Hokkaido, northernmost Japan — no one’s life was endangered even momentarily, and in point of thrills the show was a washout. In spite of these…