Alex Hollings

Here’s why the Navy wants to be able to chat with robot ships over the radio

Drone aircraft have already proven to be a valuable resource in ground combat operations; but thus far, drones have yet to make a significant splash in other facets of warfare. The Navy has been working on changing that, however, with their 132-foot submarine-hunting drone ship, the Sea Hunter, leading the way. Sea Hunter has already […]

Kim Jong-un’s new threats indicate sanctions are working in North Korea

After weeks of threatening the Trump administration with a “Christmas gift” that many assumed would be renewed ballistic missile tests, North Korea was notably silent as Christmas day passed. Kim’s threats were meant to press Trump toward offering concessions in the negotiations with the reclusive state, as Trump pushes for North Korea’s denuclearization and Kim […]

Gunman attacks Texas church and kills two before getting shot

A lone gunman opened fire during Sunday morning services, at the West Freeway Church of Christ in the small Texas town of White Settlement, before being engaged and killed by two members of the Church’s volunteer security team. “Today evil walked boldly among us,” Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said. “But let me remind you, […]

The US sent 4 spy planes to monitor North Korea’s Christmas bluff

After threatening President Donald Trump for weeks with a “Christmas gift,” North Korea was eerily quiet on Christmas day, as four American reconnaissance and surveillance planes circled over the country, looking for any sign of trouble. After early progress in talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, the effort to denuclearize North […]

An Air Force F-16 just shot down a cruise missile with a laser guided rocket

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon successfully shot down a mock cruise missile over the Gulf of Mexico, marking the first airborne intercept of a cruise missile with a GR-20A Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System. As missile technology continues to mature, a number of national militaries have made missile defense a high priority; the […]

Commercial flight with 100 on board collides with 2-story building in Kazakhstan

At least 12 people were killed on Friday, when a Fokker 100 aircraft operated by Kazakhstan-based carrier Bek Air lost altitude after takeoff, broke through a concrete fence and collided with a nearby building. The captain of the aircraft was among the 12 dead, with 50 others, including six children, taken to a nearby hospital […]

Not enough ships: Pentagon to miss Trump’s Big Navy goal

One of Trump’s most significant platforms in the 2016 presidential election was revitalizing the nation’s poorly maintained defense apparatus and returning it a state of strategic and tactical readiness needed to face near-peer, nation level opposition from the likes of China and Russia. Among the promises he made to that effect were increasing defense spending […]

Putin says Russia is leading the world in hypersonic weapons. Is he right?

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday that Russia has officially taken the lead in the global hypersonic arms race, saying that his is the only nation in the world to have already deployed hypersonic weapons. He went on to say that Russia is leading the world in developing this new class of weapons: this […]

Russia just lost a 5th-gen fighter jet in a crash

In the first reported total loss of one of Russia’s exceedingly rare fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57 “stealth” fighters, one of the jets crashed approximately 68 miles from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant in Russia, where it was likely built. The pilot ejected from the aircraft safely and was recovered soon after the incident by Russian military MI-8 […]

The US Space Force just had its first launch (into cyberspace)

The United States Space Force, now officially the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, saw its first launch into cyberspace earlier this week, as the branch’s new website went live. SpaceForce.mil is up and running, populated with information pertaining to the new branch’s establishment, mission and future plans. Despite the ideas many people tend […]

Boeing’s rocket launch failure just cost the ISS astronauts their Christmas

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which is being developed in conjunction with NASA for crewed spaceflight operations, safely returned to earth on Sunday after mission control had to abort its resupply mission to the International Space Station. According to reports, the spacecraft’s internal clock was improperly set, and as a result, the ship entered into the wrong […]