The US Navy is building out its ability to run missile-attack drills as threats to the fleet rise

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A GQM-163 target launches from San Nicolas Island. The sky is blue and clear in the background.
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A US Navy destroyer ran through the kind of critical at-sea weapons reload it would need in a Pacific missile fight

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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) launches a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) from the forward vertical launching system while operating in the Philippine Sea, April 5.
USS Higgins launches a Standard Missile-2.

US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Hannah Fry

One of Malaysia's F/A-18 Hornets burst into flames during take-off, just as the country seeks to buy 33 more of the jets

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Malaysian officers observe the partial wreckage of an F/A-18.
Debris from the F/A-18 can be seen after the crash.

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Ground drones are being used in at least 8 ways in Ukraine. A robotics operator thinks one is the most promising.

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A small wheeled robot fitted with a grenade launcher rolls on a dirt ground with a grey sky and a man behind it
Ukraine is using ground robots for a variety of uses, including firing RPG-7 grenade launchers as pictured and blowing up Russian positions.

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The US Air Force just underwent a massive stress test of how it would fight a high-end war in the Pacific

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Four F-35 fighter aircraft fly above a cloudy blue sky.
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US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tryphena Mayhugh

How 60,000 military name tapes are made every month in a Fort Knox factory

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Tucked away in a small, nondescript facility at Fort Knox lies a crucial operation in the US military supply chain — the AAFES Name Tape Plant. This factory manufactures nearly every name tag worn by service members across the US Armed Forces.

New images show a front-line NATO ally's plan to blunt a Russian invasion at the border

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Soldiers in camouflage gear and helmets stand holding firearms and wearing sunglasses.
Lithuanian Army soldiers take part in an exercise between the Lithuanian and Polish militaries near the borders with Belarus and Russia.

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Satellite images show Russia's got a new front-line drone launch site that cuts Ukraine's reaction time but puts the base at risk

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Launch rails and drone storage sheds are seen at the Donetsk airport on August 17.
Russia built a new drone launch site at an airport in the occupied Donetsk region.

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It looks like jam-proof drones, a Ukraine war battlefield scourge, showed up at the US Navy's Silent Swarm exercise

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A small, black fiber-optic first-person view drone sits on rocks at a beach, with waves and a blue sky in the background.
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US Air National Guard photo by 1st. Lt. Elise Wahlstrom

How the Green Berets actually work, according to a former special forces operative

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Captain Benjamin "Ben" Harrow is a decorated US Army Green Beret. A former collegiate lacrosse player, he trained at West Point and served as an infantry officer and special forces detachment commander during deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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