Tag: military

Courtesy of U.S. Military Update, take a look at this compilation of the “10 Deadliest Sniper Rifles.”

Featured photo courtesy of Boston Dynamics Little noticed amid the daily news bulletins about the Islamic State and Syria, the Pentagon has begun a push for exotic new weapons that can deter Russia and China. Pentagon officials have started talking openly about using the latest tools of artificial intelligence and machine learning to create robot […]

Featured photo courtesy of Fox News and Army.mil It’s the place where military weapons go to die. Once a weapon is marked for destruction, it is sent to Anniston Army Depot where it will more than likely spend its final moments being chomped apart by the military’s Grim Reaper for guns: “Captain Crunch.” The massive […]

The scene U.S. forces encountered as they entered Kuwait in February 1991 to end the Iraqi occupation was a hellish inferno, with hundreds of oil wells set ablaze by Saddam Hussein’s army to send a choking, black smoke billowing into the skies. Now, as the troops who served in the Gulf War mark its 25th anniversary on […]

The U.S. Army’s AH-64 Apache helicopter is the world’s most advanced multi-role combat helicopter.

This month, Special Forces candidates will participate in the Robin Sage training exercise, held within 19 North Carolina counties as the final test of their Special Forces Qualification Course training. Through March 14, students will participate in this exercise before graduating the course and moving on to their first assignments in the Army’s Special Forces […]

Featured photo courtesy of EPA/JEON HEON-KYUN The joint US-South Korean exercises scheduled for March will be largest military drills ever staged on the Korean Peninsula and are both a warning to Pyongyang and an effort to reassure the jittery public in the South. The parallel Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises are scheduled to commence […]

SEOUL: North Korean state media on Sunday confirmed the country has a new military chief following earlier reports in Seoul that the former holder of the post had been executed. Ri Myong-Su, former people’s security minister, was referred to as “chief of the Korean People’s Army General Staff” when the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) […]

For the first time in decades, Americans are evenly divided when asked if the U.S. has the No. 1 military in the world. A recent Gallup poll found that only 49% of Americans believe the U.S. has the best military — that’s the lowest percent recorded in the 23 years Gallup has been asking this question, and […]

Washington (CNN) – Marines are prepositioning battle tanks, artillery and logistics equipment inside Norwegian caves as the U.S. pushes to station equipment near the NATO-Russia frontier. “Any gear that is forward-deployed both reduces cost and speeds up our ability to support operations in crisis, so we’re able to fall in on gear that is ready-to-go […]

The director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told House lawmakers last week that the U.S. military will not transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees to stateside prisons because current law forbids it. The statement made by Lt. Gen. William Mayville Jr. in a letter to Congress, first reported by Bloomberg, appears to create a challenge for President Obama, who is […]

DUBAI and ANKARA — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Feb. 13 that Turkey and Saudi Arabia may join forces for ground operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL) in Syria. Although a senior Saudi military official said the Royal Saudi Air Force deployed fighter jets to the Incirlik Air Base in […]