How Navy officers are trained at the grueling 13-week Officer Candidate School

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The Navy's Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Newport, Rhode Island, is a 13-week course that turns civilians and enlisted sailors into naval officers.

Ukrainian soldiers have incredible tactical patience and are far happier moving slowly than the British military

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A man in camouflage gear and a helmet kneels in a rubble-filled room with destroyed walls
Experienced Ukrainian troops showed their Western trainers that, particularly in urban environments, they wanted to move slowly.

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I toured the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Take a look inside.

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The USS Nautilus.
The USS Nautilus.

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Ukraine just approved its first ground robot equipped with key grenade launchers, maker says

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A robot on tracks driving down a muddy track with a grenade launcher on top
DevDroid said its Droid NW 40 adapted for the Mk-19 and AGL-53 40mm automatic grenade launchers has been codified by Ukraine's defense ministry.

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Taiwan is getting plenty of missiles and drones from the US. A top business leader says the arsenal is out of balance.

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Two Taiwanese soldiers operate a tank, which is seen close-up, with a line of green trees and leaves in the background.
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Ukraine explains how it used a drone with an airburst warhead to set up its bold strike on a Russian submarine

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An aerial view of an IL-38N Sea Dragon, with a red circle added by Business Insider.
The SBU said it attacked the Sea Dragon with a drone-carried warhead that dispersed over 2,000 fragments at its target. Annotation in red by Business Insider.

Screenshot via YouTube/Security Service of Ukraine

See inside the E-4B 'Nightwatch,' the president's 'doomsday plane' that can survive nuclear war

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An E-4B plane.
Maintainers from the 595th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron prepare the E-4B for flight as a visiting documentary production team loads onto the Nightwatch to film a local training sortie and air refueling mission from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., May 15, 2024.

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Taiwan needs to flood the battlefield with cheap, mobile, and survivable weapons to counter China, former senior military officer says

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Two people wearing camouflage crouch in front of a rotary-wing drone that's sitting on a patch of greenish brown grass.
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US Army and Navy stretched the rules to misrepresent the academic qualifications of recruits, the inspector general says

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Recruits prepare to graduate from Army boot camp on Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on Feb. 9th 2020.
Recruits prepare to graduate from Army boot camp on Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on Feb. 9th 2020.

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Ukrainian troops say a 'droid' with a .50-cal machine gun held off Russian attacks for 45 days in a row

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DevDroid's TW 12.7 is seen firing its M2 Browning in aerial footage.
NC13's DevDroid TW 12.7 is seen firing its weapon in this aerial footage. Red annotation by Business Insider.

Screenshot via 3rd Army Corps/Telegram

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