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Ukraine’s F-16 fighters have become a crucial defense against Russian drones, but repeated interceptions are wearing out the country’s small fleet.Ukrainian F-16s have destroyed more than 2,500 Geran and Gerbera one-way attack drones, wrote airpower expert Justin Bronk in an analysis of the Ukraine air war for the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.“[The] use of fighters against such drones has consumed an unsustainable number of airframe flying hours and air-to-air missiles … since mid-2024, when the Ukrainian Air Force received its first Western aircraft and trained crews,” the analysis reads.“Russian industry produces more than 6,000 [one-way attack]…

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMost of us have done it. You walk out of the store, reach your car, and realize you don’t remember walking across the parking lot—you zoned out. Or you drive a route you’ve taken a thousand times and can’t recall the last three miles. Your eyes were open the whole time. You just weren’t really there. That gap—eyes open, nobody home—is where trouble gets its head start. Most people move through their day on autopilot. They see, but don’t look. They hear, but don’t listen. Something has to be undeniably wrong before they register…

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The U.S. Marine Corps is offering early separation to enlisted Marines in two dozen military occupational specialties as part of a force-shaping effort tied to budget constraints.According to the July 1 policy message, the service announced the Voluntary Enlisted Early Release Program as “a deliberate force-shaping initiative” that allows eligible Marines to apply for separation before the end of the fiscal year.Yvonne Carlock, a spokeswoman for the service’s Manpower and Reserve Affairs, told USNI News that the program was “designed to balance the Marine Corps’ end strength and ensure long-term fiscal health and operational readiness.”The program allows certain enlisted Marines…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics On June 2, six anglers chartered Captain Joey Maciasz’s 44-foot catamaran “Timbuktu” for a 36-hour long-range bottom fishing trip out of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. They hoped to catch some fish, but had no idea they would go on to potentially break multiple state records. Port Fourchon is well-known as one of the Gulf of America’s premier fishing jump-off spots. It’s the southernmost port in Louisiana and is in the heart of the state’s offshore oil and gas drilling business. Thus, the waters off Port Fourchon are…

A staple of the skies during the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey began its final chapter in service on Tuesday with the delivery of the last model.With the acceptance of the 359th — and final — tiltrotor aircraft, the Marine Corps marked the end of the MV-22B Osprey program of record, a milestone that will now shift efforts towards “sustaining and modernizing the fleet for decades to come,” the V-22 Joint Program Office, which manages the Osprey program, said in a statement. “The MV-22B … fundamentally changed the way the Marine Air-Ground Task Force…

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This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.  The War Is Over — and We Lost Today is a pivot point in the conflict. As of today, I believe the United States has decisively lost the war with Iran, and we are now in a fighting retreat. This is not speculation or defeatism but a sober assessment based on undeniable evidence. Colonel Douglas McGregor and other military experts have been warning for years that the U.S. military machine cannot win a sustained conflict against a determined, geographically gifted, and technologically capable adversary like Iran. Now their predictions…

The Pentagon has formally launched the Europe force posture review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last month, beginning a process to examine U.S. military troop presence, force posture and basing across Europe.Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby announced on X Tuesday that the Defense Department had “kicked off” the review Hegseth unveiled during the NATO defense ministerial in Brussels on June 18. Hegseth described the effort at the time as “a real review” of America’s force posture and basing in Europe.Neither Hegseth’s announcement nor Colby’s statement announced troop reductions, unit movements or installation changes as part of the…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics On June 2, six anglers chartered Captain Joey Maciasz’s 44-foot catamaran “Timbuktu” for a 36-hour long-range bottom fishing trip out of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. They hoped to catch some fish, but had no idea they would go on to potentially break multiple state records. Port Fourchon is well-known as one of the Gulf of America’s premier fishing jump-off spots. It’s the southernmost port in Louisiana and is in the heart of the state’s offshore oil and gas drilling business. Thus, the waters off Port Fourchon are…

The Coast Guard’s medium icebreaker Healy was towed to Port Angeles, Washington, earlier this month as a result of a “significant engineering casualty,” according to a release.The Cutter Healy, which recently completed drydock repairs at the Swan Island shipyard in Portland, Oregon, lost propulsion during sea trials off the Washington coast July 13 and was towed to port without incident. Coast Guard officials said no personnel were injured in the mishap.The 420-foot ship underwent a $18.3 million overhaul earlier this year that included restoring propulsion components such as shafts, bearings, seals, rudders and its bow thruster. Vigor Marine LLC also…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics IT WAS 1 A.M., and Lake St. John was truly a thing of beauty. The Louisiana moon had climbed above the maze of cypress trees and was flooding the water’s surface with lambent patterns of light. A warm June breeze swayed the beards of gray Spanish moss as I worked our boat into position. My night-fishing companion, Don Patterson, leaned forward in the bow and whipped his plug under some low-hanging branches. As often happens at night, his cast was a trifle long, and the lure…