The U.S. Army will field the long-anticipated Bell MV-75 tiltrotor aircraft this year ahead of its former schedule, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George announced at the Army’s Senior Leader Sitrep town hall meeting that premiered online today. The Bell MV-75, previously designated the Bell V-280 Valor, promises greater maneuverability in the air than traditional helicopters. The aircraft was previously slated for delivery between 2031 and 2032, but George announced during the town hall that production has been accelerated.“We said, ‘No, we need it very quickly,” George said. “At the end of this year, we will actually have those…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. After years of running a knife sharpening business, I know that too many people carry and use dull knives. That used to be excusable because you had to use sharpening stones, and not everyone could jump on the internet and learn how to use them efficiently. But today, there’s no excuse for carrying or using a dull knife. The market is loaded with quality knife sharpeners that are easy to use, and produce excellent results.  So, whether you have your grandfather’s…

Denmark is pushing back against the rhetoric of the United States and its desire to acquire the Arctic island of Greenland. Denmark’s ambassador to Washington, Jesper Moller Sorensen, has said he made it “abundantly clear” that Greenland belongs to Denmark. On Monday, Republican Congressman Randy Fin introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act. The bill is aimed at authorizing the US president to take “whatever steps necessary to annex or acquire Greenland,” and mandates a report to Congress outlining the measures required for its eventual admission as a state. Accoridng to a report by RT, this bill is supposed to authorize the…

You’re on a two-day patrol mission near an unknown village that might be hostile when your transport vehicle runs out of fuel. You can’t communicate with your headquarters element, but you know you need to act soon. What do you do?Scenarios like these — known as situational judgment tests, or SJTs — may someday be used to help the Army improve soldiers’ ability to think on their feet and come up with better solutions to problems they might face in the field. A recently begun two-year study by the University of Texas at Arlington, commissioned by the Army Research Institute,…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics White perch are a bit odd. They exist in strong numbers in many regions of the country, yet few anglers make them a primary target. Much of this has to do with size. For the most part, white perch are small, rarely cracking about 10 inches in length. But there are also pockets of fish scattered throughout their range that grow big. In many cases, these are brackish water environments — but Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire is not. Here in New England, landlocked white perch…

The U.S. Navy announced that several installations will be receiving an award acknowledging stellar support of the “fleet, fighter, and family,” according to a Navy release.The service announced the winners of the Battle “E” Award, which recognizes installations that promote excellence in “generating and supporting combat capabilities,” as well as the Installation Excellence Award, which rewards the innovation and overall performance of a military installation.The latter award qualifies a military installation to compete for the Commander in Chief’s Installation Excellence Award, which labels the top installation from each service every year.“The outstanding performance of this year’s winners is a direct…

At this point, it is a little surprising that a third global war has not popped off. The West seems to be doing whatever it can to instigate conflicts in as many countries as possible. The United Kingdom is no exception. It seeks to send troops to Ukraine in spite of Russia’s repeated warnings not to. While speaking at a parliamentary defense committee hearing on Monday, Air Chief Marshal Richard Knighton stressed that the UK “won’t deploy our armed forces [to Ukraine] if we’re not happy that they’re going to be safe.” Knighton is looking to send troops to Ukraine…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is expected to announce today a major access initiative that will require that most public lands managed by the Department of the Interior are open to hunting and fishing access unless specifically closed by site managers and agency directors. The initiative, conveyed through Secretarial Order 3447, will apply to the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges, Bureau of Reclamation properties, and some units of the National Park Service where hunting is currently allowed.…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.  In recent days, there have been a lot of prominent voices in the media that have been boldly proclaiming that the Western Hemisphere is “our hemisphere” and that it is our right to exercise dominion over it.  But I don’t think that they have really thought this through.  In order to have the right to control what goes on in a particular piece of territory, the United States must own it first.  The territories that we own fall into two very specific categories. Our 50…

A former U.S. Navy sailor convicted of selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China was sentenced Monday to more than 16 years in prison, prosecutors said.A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Jinchao Wei, 25, to 200 months. A federal jury convicted Wei in August of six crimes, including espionage. He was paid more than $12,000 for the information he sold, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.Wei, an engineer for the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, was one of two California-based sailors charged on Aug. 3, 2023,…

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology.“Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,” Hegseth said in a speech at Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX, in South Texas.The announcement comes just days after Grok — which is embedded into X, the social media network owned by Musk — drew global outcry…

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