With the November 3 midterms approaching, President Donald Trump’s near-daily rallies are running into voters’ frustration over gas, groceries and everyday costs, Reuters reports.
They zipped him into a body bag. He wasn’t dead. On May 2, 1968, Sergeant Roy Benavidez — armed with only a knife and a medical bag — saved eight men in six hours of fighting, with 37 wounds.
Fast, low, uncrewed and hard to spot — unmanned surface vessels like the BlackSea Comet are turning naval warfare upside down, chasing down speed boats without risking a single sailor.
Australia’s Ghost Shark is a large uncrewed underwater vehicle built to appear at the surface, deploy equipment or launch drones, and disappear beneath the waves again — all without a single sailor aboard.
It looks like a toy airplane that grew up angry: a fat central body, a triangular delta wing, no pilot, no landing gear worth mentioning. Delta-wing one-way attack drones of the Shahed type have become one of the defining weapons of modern war — and when soldiers open a captured one up in the desert,…
Desmond Doss volunteered for the U.S. Army with a condition nobody around him could understand: as a Seventh-day Adventist and a conscientious objector, he would serve, he would go into combat — but he would never touch a weapon. His fellow soldiers mocked him, threw things at him, and called him a coward. His officers…
On June 28, 2005, a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team was discovered high in the mountains of Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Within hours, Lt. Michael P. Murphy and his teammates — Matthew Axelson, Danny Dietz and Marcus Luttrell — were fighting for their lives against a far larger Taliban force in the mission known as Operation…
Six seconds. That is all the time there was between a speeding dump truck appearing in the alley and the explosion — six seconds to run, as the Iraqi police at the checkpoint did, or to stand. On the morning of April 22, 2008, at Joint Security Station Nasser in Ramadi, Iraq, two young Marines…
It is the call no pilot wants to hear: friendly troops surrounded, taking fire from every direction, and the aircraft overhead running out of weapons. In Afghanistan, that was the situation facing a team of U.S. Army Rangers clearing a town when Taliban fighters opened up from all sides — and the airmen above them…
Forget Tesla’s autopilot. Pakistan, the viral video jokes, has developed a self-driving technology that does not even need electricity: a bullock cart, a driver lying flat with his eyes closed, and an animal that knows the road home better than any satellite. The clip is funny because it flips the script on one of the…
