The Defense Department has completed its $1 billion investment in L3Harris Technologies’ missile-making unit, ahead of a planned initial public offering later this year.DOD’s capital infusion is a convertible preferred security that will convert into common equity if, as planned, the IPO turns the company’s Missile Solutions business into an independent, publicly-traded company.…
NASHVILLE—The Army thinks its Apache helicopters, developed a half-century ago to kill Soviet tanks, might offer a solution to enemy drones two or three orders of magnitude smaller.As the service races to mold a counter-drone strategy based on lessons from Ukraine and now Iran, it is testing AH-64s armed with…
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Earlier this week, Denver Water announced that it will soon drain water from one of Colorado’s most popular recreational fisheries: Antero Reservoir. The decision will shutter recreational opportunities at the premier trophy trout fishery, likely impacting it for years to come.Denver Water, a public utility that serves 1.5 million people…
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The United States will “run” Venezuela in the wake of an assault on the country centered on the capture of the country’s leader in Caracas, President Donald Trump said Saturday.More than 150 aircraft took part in the attack, which destroyed and suppressed Venezuelan air defenses before Delta Force operators landed…
U.S. intelligence agencies supported an overnight operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, the nation’s capital, which also included strikes against several military sites throughout the city.Multiple U.S. spy offices stood up crisis action teams that provided intelligence to Special Operations Command and Southern Command throughout the operations,…
Cpl. Charles McMahon Jr. of the Marine Corps was among the last U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam more than 50 years ago. A LegacyMcMahon, of Woburn, Massachusetts, not only left behind a legacy of service and sacrifice, but also his class ring, a memento he gifted to his high school sweetheart. Carol,…
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When Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm was released from a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam in 1973, surviving 1,966 days in captivity, his thoughts were consumed with finally reuniting with his family. That joyous moment at Travis Air Force Base in California was captured by Associated Press photographer Sal…
By November 1944, Nazi Germany was collapsing. Soviet forces drove westward through Eastern Europe while the Western Allies advanced from the west and south. For the first time in the war, American and Soviet troops operated in the same theater.On Nov. 7, 1944, the convergence of both forces in Central…
