U.S. House lawmakers approved a fiscal year 2027 spending bill that would include cuts to the Air Force’s flying hours and other budget requests.In the Operation and Maintenance portfolio of the Weapons System Sustainment program, the Department of the Air Force requested $9.9 billion for its entire Flying Hour Program in April in an effort to boost pilot flying hours to over a million for fiscal year 2027 — an increase of 22%. While the Air Force requested $7.265 billion for its Flying Hour Program, the House Committee on Appropriations recommended a $121 million decrease for a total of slightly…
Author: Tommy Grant
A dry winter, ravenous hunger and accessible trash have drawn bears to Fort Carson, Colorado, where officials have received 23 reported bear sightings just this year.The real number, they believe, is likely much higher. Capt. Robert Look Jr., chief of conservation law enforcement for Fort Carson, said low snowpack, a condition called seasonal hyperphagia — where an animal’s insatiable urge to eat overrides a natural fear of humans — and loose garbage have made conditions tempting for bears to head towards the Army post. “Recent mild winters and low snowpack have depleted natural food sources — berries, acorns and plants…
The research infrastructure that underpins America’s prowess in defense technology is “deteriorating,” according to a Department of Defense report released Wednesday.One reason is that research funds are being diverted to operations.The Pentagon’s “research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) infrastructure is deteriorating and weakening the Department’s ability to maintain a technically advanced warfighting capability,” warned the report by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. “Authorized major military construction (MILCON) projects for modernization of critical joint-mission RDT&E infrastructure continually slip due to the services’ reprioritizing of scarce MILCON funds toward other operationally relevant priorities.”The study examined…
This article was originally published by Garrison Vance at Natural News. A rescued U.S. Air Force pilot reported seeing a highly coordinated formation of Iranian drones shortly before his F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran in April, according to sources familiar with his post-rescue debriefing. The account has sparked debate within the U.S. intelligence community over whether Iran possesses more advanced drone networking capabilities than previously assessed and whether the drone formation played a role in the shootdown during Operation Epic Fury, as reported by CNN and cited in an Antiwar.com article [1]. The pilot described multiple drones moving together as a single…
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian firm behind many of the long-range drone strikes that now regularly hit Russian oil refineries hundreds of miles inside its borders is moving into missile defense, signing a major deal this month to build a low-cost ballistic missile interceptor with foreign partners — a turn that positions the company as a key provider at both ends of the deep-strike war.Fire Point makes the munitions bolstering much of Ukraine’s campaign against targets deep inside Russia, including the FP-1 deep-strike drone, the shorter-range FP-2 and the FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile.Last week, the firm announced plans to build…
While we are being told the war is all but over because the United States and Iran have agreed to a memorandum of understanding to end it, other news surfaces that makes it appear that it isn’t quite done. U.S. President Donald Trump recently asked Congress for $88 billion to continue the war against Iran. The White House has formally requested $87.6 billion, mostly to replenish the Pentagon after the US started and lost a war against Iran. This proposal comes as btoh democrats and republicans rejct further military action. The administration said it is requesting $67 billion for the…
The White House budget office wants to raid a Navy radar-plane account and a classified Air Force line to pull the E-7 Wedgetail back from the dead.The maneuver surfaced in a Wednesday report accompanying the House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2027 defense bill, and it runs on money the White House went looking for a week earlier. In a June 17 budget amendment to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., the Office of Management and Budget asked Congress to steer more than $1.55 billion into the Air Force’s research and development account to keep the airborne battle management jet alive — money…
Seven crew members aboard the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Indianapolis received minor injuries after a fire broke out on the ship Wednesday, the service confirmed.The incident was reported at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time while the ship was moored at Naval Station Mayport, Florida. Mayport Fire and Emergency Services responded to the scene immediately and extinguished the fire.“The cause of the incident is being reviewed,” a Navy spokesperson said.The service members were released shortly after arriving at local hospitals and cleared to return to the Indianapolis the same day.Earlier this month, a fire broke out aboard the John Lewis-class…
Homesteaders are champs at finding ways to repurpose and upcycle things that other folks would consider junk. Making do with what you have and stockpiling useful materials is a major part of the homesteading credo. This list of 65 things you should stop throwing out and start reusing or upcycling will help you do just that…without costing you a single dime. Not only will the repurposed items on this list save you money, they’ll save you time, as well. Note: For each item, I included links where you can learn more about how to repurpose or upcycle them. Now on…
The U.S. Naval Academy is returning to grooming standards it last instituted before 2018, the school announced.Incoming female students for the class of 2030 will have to chop their hair so that it does not exceed their chin, a standard the the academy abided by until 2019 when it only required students to follow Navy-wide grooming standards for female recruits.“Returning to a short haircut for women on I‑Day aligns them once again to a common standard plebes have maintained for generations,” a U.S. Naval Academy spokesperson told Military Times.They further clarified that the return to old norms was to ensure…