A new veteran-founded nonprofit is trying to turn race registrations into a route back to structure, purpose and community. Operation WarriorFit, based in North Carolina, provides free or substantially discounted entries to veterans, active duty service members, National Guard and Reserve members, and first responders. Founder and Executive Director Jonathan…
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) announcement earlier this month of 11 nations’ support for the procurement of Saab GlobalEye aircraft as NATO’s new Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is drawing varied reactions, with one former U.S. official warning that the path forward is an “easy button” that puts…
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The Marine Corps has selected Allen Control Systems’ Bullfrog autonomous weapon station for integration into its Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (L-MADIS) under the Ground-Based Air Defense (GBAD) program, according to a company announcement this week. The move pairs the AI-powered robotic mount with the M240 machine gun already…
00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal as though public land employees don’t have it hard enough these days with staff cuts and slashed budgets. Two seasonal workers with the Forest Service were…
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NASHVILLE—Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said Thursday that autonomous weapons are going to be a “key and essential part of everything we do” when asked about how such tools would fit into the future of warfare.Speaking during a fireside chat at Vanderbilt University’s Asness Summit on Modern Conflict and…
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…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Hit It Phil Boom. This week on the news show, we’re talking about Senate Republicans giving a big old thumbs up to a toxic copper sulfide mine just outside of the Boundary Waters Wilderness on the Superior National Forest. Oklahoma starts letting deer breeders cut their pet…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: At two o’clock on a clear November afternoon, a single rifle shot cracked through the Big Woods of northern Maine. Shirley Smith thought her husband had just tagged a deer, but Bob Smith was gone. There was no storm, no cliff, no rushing river, just thick timber,…
