US Army to Replace the M4 & SAW With NGSW System Within 2 Years
The US Army is looking at the NGSW system to replace both the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) and the M16/M4/carbine used by close combat…
B-52 Sends Distress Signal Over Britain
A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber sent an emergency radio message while flying over Gloucestershire in the UK on September 25, 2020. The bomber…
RNLI Rescues a Catalina Flying-Boat in Loch Ness
The crews attached to the RNLI Station at Loch Ness are no strangers to call-outs for strange objects, but none were as odd as the…
Nuclear Weapons Will be Illegal in 90 Days, but will Victims of Pacific Tests Ever Get Justice?
In 90 days, seventy-five years after the world first witnessed the devastation caused by nuclear weapons, they will be illegal, according to international law. From…
41 Year Old Medal of Honor Recipient was Laid to Rest at Arlington
Medal of Honor recipient and former Army Staff Sgt. Ronald Shurer passed away in May 2020 at the age of 41. He was laid to…
Germany Pledges Over €550 Million to Holocaust Survivors
An organization that negotiates for compensation from the German Government has announced that the Government will provide €564 million ($662 million) to aid Holocaust survivors…
Hanks and Spielberg ‘Masters of the Air’ to Start Filming
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, who teamed up to bring the much-acclaimed Band of Brothers to life in 2001, are teaming up again to bring…
Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix Team Up for New Napoleon Epic Movie
Was there ever a General more suited to the epic Hollywood treatment than Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican master strategist who won the crown of France…
Facebook and the UK Culture Recovery Fund help keep the doors at Bletchley Park open
During World War II, Alan Turing and his code-breaking team at Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi’s Enigma machine and enabled the Allies to read encoded…
Landmine Clearing with Lasers, Rats and Bees
The 80 million landmines and other unexploded ordnance left behind after armed conflicts are the scourge of many countries that have emerged from such strife.…
Can We Really Believe That the Days of Jet Fighter Pilots are Numbered?
Recently, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) matched an Artificial Intelligence program against an F-16 pilot with the codename “Banger,” in a series of…
Over 100 Napoleonic War Graves Found in Jersey
Rector Peter Dyson of St Saviour’s Church in Jersey has been astounded to find over 100 graves of veterans of the Napoleonic Wars in the…