Russia's tanks may face 'disadvantageous conditions' in a battle with US-made Abrams tanks, Russian expert says

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Destroyed Russian tank near Izyum in Ukraine
A destroyed Russian tank near Izyum in eastern Ukraine in October 2022.

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European militaries are emptying their arsenals to send heavy-duty howitzers to Ukraine

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A French Caesar self-propelled howitzer fires into the Middle Euphrates River Valley in December 2018.

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Shunned by the US, Turkey is preparing to launch its first aircraft carrier — but it will come with a twist

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TCG Anadolu, Turkey's largest warship, in Istanbul in September 2022.

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North Korea's antique fighter jets are still keeping the US and South Korea on their toes

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Kim Jong Un in a Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force aircraft in a photo released by state media in October 2014.

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After bloody failures in Ukraine, Russians are reconsidering the role of their military's 'elite' paratroopers

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Russian paratroopers at the Hostomel Airport on March 12, 2022.

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Decades after winning the world's first jet-powered dogfights, US fighter pilots are still flexing their muscles over Korea

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US Air Force F-80C Shooting Stars during the Korean War in 1950 or 1951.

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As US planes bombed Japan in World War II, the Japanese sent balloons across the ocean to try to set the US on fire

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A Japanese Fu-Go balloon with bombs attached near Bigelow, Kansas, on February 23, 1945.

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Losses in Ukraine are 'out of proportion' to what NATO has been planning for, the alliance's top general says

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U.S. troops on a NATO mission in Orzysz, Poland in April 2017.

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The Western-made tanks heading to Ukraine are unique — but that creates unique problems for Ukraine's military

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A US soldier scrambles into the driver's compartment of an M1A1 Abrams tank at Fort Benning in Georgia in May 2016.

Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy

Here's what happens when US Navy special operators go up against dolphins trained to keep them out of sensitive bases

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Zak, a California sea lion in the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, in the Middle East in January 2003.

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