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US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test

November 17, 2020
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy has shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean with an SM-3 Block IIA missile in a milestone test that demonstrated a potential scheme to defend Hawaii, the Missile Defense Agency announced Tuesday morning. The test, which comes on the heels of the revealing of a larger North Korean ICBM in October that could potentially strike the U.S.
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US Army’s heavy ground robot reaches full-rate production

November 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s heavy common ground robot has reached full-rate production, less than a year after FLIR won the contract to deliver the system, FLIR’s vice president in charge of unmanned ground systems told Defense News in an interview this month. …
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SEALs, Green Berets Join Large Defense Drill in Sweden

November 16, 2020
Swedish Special Forces together with U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman and Special Reconnaissance Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) operators assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command perform UUV launch and recovery training utilizing a Combatant Craft Medium (CCM) in the Baltic Sea near Karlskrona, Sweden during a bilateral exercise on November 6, 2020. The Swedish-led exercise…
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Top US Air Force general wants to go faster, but the biggest changes won’t happen for another year

November 14, 2020
WASHINGTON — Shortly after U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown took command this August, he vowed to quickly adopt a radical plan to overhaul the service in preparation for a future fight against an advanced nation, like Russia or China. But the Air Force of the future won’t really begin to take shape until fiscal 2023, after the service wraps up extensive force planning…
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National Museum Dedicated to Army Debuts on Veterans Day

November 13, 2020
A marker commemorating the service of Sgt. William Carney, a former slave who served in the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment and became the first African American Medal of Honor recipient, is displayed outside the new National Museum of the United States Army on…
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Army, Guard Units Participating in Sinai Observer Mission That Sustained Tragic Helo Crash

November 13, 2020
U.S. troops case the colors during a transfer of authority ceremony on South Camp, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 8, 2020. U.S. units support the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping mission. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Eliverto Larios) The identities of five American service members killed in Thursday’s helicopter crash remain unknown, but they were part of a U.S. military force…
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