If you start preparing for emergencies while you’re living in a city, you face two main challenges: limited space and a tight budget. Many readers are looking for ways to get started without spending a lot of money. Here is a simple $25-a-month prep plan designed to help you build a 14-day survival kit over the next year without taking up much space or draining your wallet. TL;DR: Start your emergency preparedness journey for just $25 a month. By focusing on everyday essentials like water, dry food, and basic sanitation, you can calmly build a reliable 14-day survival kit over…

This article was originally published by Micahel Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog under the title: The U.S. Navy Just Blew A Giant Hole In An Iranian Cargo Ship As The Crisis In The Strait Of Hormuz Escalates To An Entirely New Level Apparently the Trump administration was not kidding when it warned that no Iranian ships would be allowed through the blockade. Just a little while ago, Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy had blown an enormous hole in the side of an Iranian cargo vessel that had willingly chosen to ignore a warning to turn around. Just…

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The United States Air Force is going to keep the A-10 Warthog in service through 2030, Secretary of the Air Force Troy E. Meink announced Monday on X, reversing a retirement timeline set to conclude in 2029.“In consultation with [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth], we will EXTEND the A-10 ‘Warthog’ platform to 2030,” Meink wrote. “This preserves combat power as the Defense Industrial Base works to increase combat aircraft production.”The decision comes as A-10s have seen increased involvement during Operation Epic Fury in Iran. A-10s have provided close air support in maritime operations in the Strait of Hormuz and were involved…

Sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office on Saturday, President Donald Trump described the quieter tolls of wars — one that follows veterans home and lingers long after the fighting ends. “Since 9/11, we’ve lost over 21 times more veteran lives to suicide than on the battlefield,” he said. “Today, we’re bringing them new hope.”Trump, in a declaration suffused with urgency, signed an executive order directing the Food and Drug Administration to accelerate the review of certain psychedelic therapies to treat mental illnesses. Specifically, the order commits at least $50 million in federal funds to boost research on…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Two soldiers were injured in a bear attack during a training exercise near Anchorage on Thursday. Details remain limited because the incident remains under investigation, but preliminary reports indicate it was a defensive attack by a bear that had recently emerged from a den.  The attack occurred on the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where soldiers in the 11th Airborne Division (also known as the Arctic Angels) were participating in a land navigation training event. At least one of the two soldiers was apparently…

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down by enemy fire during Operation Epic Fury over southwestern Iran on April 3.Two crew members ejected, landing miles apart from one another. While the U.S. was able to locate and rescue the pilot that same day, the weapon systems officer aboard remained unaccounted for. A mad dash to save him ensued.The officer, call sign Dude 44 Bravo, marched several kilometers, significantly injured and bleeding, evading the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps headhunting him. The airman found refuge in a mountain crevice, hoping American troops would make it to him before…

This article was originally published by Hamoon Soleimani at The Mises Institute.  Autonomous AI agents are becoming active economic participants on both sides of market transactions. Enterprise platforms now embed what vendors call “touchless operations,” with agents executing procurement decisions without human review. Blockchain networks let AI agents hold wallets, settle payments, and rebalance portfolios autonomously. Microsoft Research has already documented two-sided “agentic markets” where both buyers and sellers are AI proxies. The standard commentary praises the speed and consistency of it all. That praise is correct, and it misses something catastrophic: when both parties to a transaction are algorithms optimizing against pre-specified utility functions, the…

Anduril and HD Hyundai are expanding their partnership of designing and building autonomous surface vessels as the first ship in their new class enters production.“Following the successful completion of our critical design review, construction on our first ASV is underway, and the ship is on track to be in the water and tested by the end of this year,” according to an Anduril statement to Military Times.Anduril has been conducting daily at-sea testing to give insights into moving the vessel from production to operation, as it collects open-water operation data that will transfer to the first production hull when it…

As the Iran war has shown, detecting and sweeping mines is one of the biggest challenges for the U.S. Navy. Meanwhile, the sea service also has to worry about detecting submarines operated by China, Russia and other nations. But rather than separate sonars and helicopters for spotting mines and subs, the Navy is exploring the convenience of having one sonar that allows a single helicopter to perform both missions. The service, therefore, is looking for a helicopter-borne dipping sonar capable of both anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, and airborne mine countermeasures, or AMCM. “The multi-mission capability of such a sonar transducer…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The search for a 27-year-old turkey hunter who vanished in Chaffee County, Colorado, last week entered its sixth day on Monday. The Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office received word late Wednesday that the missing man, Kaden Sites of Salida, had not returned to town when expected. Sites had gone out for a quick hunt around 1:30 p.m. and missed a doctor’s appointment around 3:45 p.m. that same afternoon, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office. When he missed the appointment, family…

United States President Donald Trump is lashing out at NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) for being “useless” to him during the war with Iran. Trump said he doesn’t need NATO’s assistance in the Strait of Hormuz, and added that the military bloc was “useless when needed” during the war with Iran. On Friday afternoon, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that the key oil and gas freight corridor was “completely open” for all commercial vessels for the remainder of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, which is set to end next week. U.S. Begins Blockade of Strait of Hormuz Just an hour later, Trump took to Truth…

Two soldiers were injured after encountering a bear last week during a training event in Alaska, state wildlife officials said. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game in a statement said it is investigating what appeared to be “a defense attack by a bear recently emerged from a den,” that occurred in a remote area of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson during a land navigation exercise. The area has since been closed to recreational activity until the inquiry is complete.The soldiers sustained injuries but lived, the agency reported, attributing their survival to bear spray. The agency “will continue investigating the circumstances that…

After a federal watchdog found a staff of two overseers insufficient to vet 27,000 research awards for ties to adversaries, namely China, the Pentagon says computers will now screen military-funded academics, including artificial intelligence experts. The move has stakeholders urging not to lean too hard on algorithms to distinguish, for instance, a scientist-spy sharing secret nano-energy plans with China from a Chinese professor publishing AI safety studies. Hanging in the balance lies troops’ technological edge, veteran intelligence officials and academics say. AI’s confusion over the timing and nature of research partnerships may obscure real espionage if humans are not the…

A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook has been successfully landed without a pilot at the controls, Boeing announced, in the latest sign of the service’s push toward autonomous aircraft. The demonstration is part of a wider Army move to expand autonomy within its fleet, which included the recent delivery of a Black Hawk designed to fly with a reduced crew, or in some cases without a pilot onboard. During the test, the Chinook used Boeing’s Approach-to-X, or A2X, software to autonomously guide the aircraft through its final approach and landing, according to a company statement released last week.The Army often uses…