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The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on 17 August announced that it had finalised its Dialable Effects Munition (DEM) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) programme with a live flight test of the experimental weapon system...

Gaza City, Gaza – On May 19, shortly after midnight, a reconnaissance missile tore through the roof of the Muhareb family home in Rafah in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip. Two minutes later, an Israeli warplane dropped another missile, which crashed through two storeys of the house, but somehow did not explode. “My brother and his family, who live on the second floor, were all injured from the reconnaissance missile,” Waseem Muhareb told Al Jazeera. “My four-month-old baby was in a...

Antiwar.com Original Think about this: on Saturday, May 12th, with barely an hour’s notice, Israel took out the al-Jalaa Tower, a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed the Associated Press, al-Jazeera, and other media outlets. That act of destruction, among so many others, caused shock globally and protests not just by those media groups but by previously Israeli-supporting Democrats in Congress. As it happens, the weapon that destroyed that tower was a GBU...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, via JTA) Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drafted a resolution aimed at blocking the $735 million sale of precision-guided missiles to Israel that was approved by the Biden administration. The joint resolution of disapproval (JRD) is almost certain not to pass, given strong support for Israel in both the House and Senate, but the legislation will also spark further debate on the issue of Israel in Congress...

With Israel Under Rocket Barrage, AOC, Tlaib File Resolution to Block Arms Sale to Israel 19 May 2021 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced a resolution to block a $735 million sale of U.S. precision-guided bombs to Israel, even as Palestinian Hamas terrorists continued to fire barrages of rockets at Israeli civilians on Wednesday. The $735 million arms deal was arranged before the current war between Israel and Hamas, and includes “Joint Direct Attack Munition variants and Small Dia...

Bidens $735 Million Arms Sale to Israel to Include Missile Type That Hit Gaza Tower Newsweek 2 hrs ago Tom OConnor © MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images Smoke billows as an missile resembling a GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition is dropped on Al-Jalaa Tower during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, a city controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, on May 15. The U.S. considers Israel a key security ally and contributes billions of dollars a year in military assistance, but Presiden...

(Photo : Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jarod Hodge/wikipedia) F/A-18 E Super Hornet is the premier naval fighter of the US Navy, and it will be getting Block III upgrades. The jet is a 4th generation fighter with upgrades improving its performance over the Block II type. F/A-18 E Super Hornet naval specialist Block III, dubbed the Advanced Super Hornet, was test flown successfully in August 2013. To allow it to be competitive with newer planes, several equipment changes were devised ...

US approves potential sale of up to 12 weapons-ready MQ-9B UAVs to Australia 26 April 2021 by Gabriel Dominguez & Julian Kerr The US State Department has approved a potential USD1.65 billion Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Australia of up to 12 weapons-ready MQ-9B medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), along with related equipment and services. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on 23 April that the government in Canberra requested to buy...

The U.S. Air Force recently determined it can strap up to 7,500 pounds of precision-guided bombs to a F-15 Strike Eagle fighter jet.

This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes an upcoming documentary. Hours after the attack on the Capitol ended, a group calling itself the Last Sons of Liberty posted a brief video to Parler, the social media platform, that appeared to show members of the organization directly participating in the uprising. Footage showed someone with a shaky smartphone charging past the metal barricades surrounding the building. Other clips show rioters physi...