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Your daily guide to Sun n Funs 2021 Aerospace Expo LAKELAND —Thousands of aviation enthusiasts from across the country are arriving in Lakeland for the 47th annual Sun n Fun Aerospace Expo this week from Monday through Sunday. The event features dozens of industry-related workshops, presentations and at least one airshow daily.  Heres some of the highlights, starting with the airshow lineups as selected by The Ledger. A full daily schedule can be found online at flysnf.org. Air show lineup,...

US Green Berets are training the Mozambique army to take on a growing insurgency linked to ISIS  Apr 10, 2021, 10:19 AM facebook email A US soldier talks to a Mozambique soldier next to a US C-130J in Maputo, Mozambique, April 5, 2019. US Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Chris Hibben US Army Green Berets are on the ground in Mozambique training the army to take on a growing insurgency linked to ISIS. Mozambiques inability to quell the violence has already drawn in Russian and...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 8, 2021 LOS ANGELES — One of the U.S. Space Forces three main prongs, the division that will develop and buy space technologies and services, will be based in the Los Angeles area, officials announced Thursday. The Los Angeles Air Force Bases Space and Missile Systems Center in El Segundo will become the headquarters of the planned division, which is named Space Systems Command. The division is set to become official this summer after its commander is se...

SilencerCo Omega 36M Suppressor (Mark Fingar photo) March 26, 2021 By Tom Beckstrand Suppressors are one of those accessories that don’t get the attention they deserve. There is some additional paperwork to own one, and the wait turns a lot of prospective customers away. But the performance and safety benefits are worth it. Hearing damage, once done, cannot be reversed, and the effects are cumulative. The older I ...

U.S. Special Operations Units Have a New Enemy The Chinese military and other agencies have been pushing their narrative of the world and trying to influence public opinion. The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has created a new joint task force to fight against Chinese information operations in the Pacific. Army General Rickard D. Clarke, the commander of SOCOM, revealed the new task force during a testimony to the Armed Services Committee. In an increasingly inter-connected world wher...

Print One of the U.S. Space Force’s three main prongs, the division that will develop and buy space technologies and services, will be based in the Los Angeles area, officials announced Thursday. The Los Angeles Air Force Base’s Space and Missile Systems Center in El Segundo will become the headquarters of the planned division, which is named Space Systems Command. The division is set to become official this summer after its commander is selected and receives Senate confirmation. Space Sy...

The Chinook touched down, conjuring a cloud of swirling sand and dust around it. U.S. Army Lieutenant Nate Bethea ran from its rear bay with his head down and immediately took cover flat against the ground as small arms fire popped from the village around him. It was July 2009, and Bethea was part of an airborne unit searching for Private Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who had walked off an outpost in Afghanistan and been captured by Taliban insurgents.  Bethea was leading a group of soldi...

Article content It takes a hamlet to raise a brigadier-general. In the case of Brig.-Gen. Kevin Whale, that hamlet is Duthil, a tiny farm community near the Sydenham River in Lambton County’s St. Clair Township. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Lambton County native serving with U.S. Space Force command Back to video Whale grew up on a 100-acre farm at the corner of Duthil Road and Smith Line that has been in the family for generations, swimming...

Credit: Michaela Kane, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Duke University has developed a highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic test for Ebola virus (EBOV) infection. In monkeys infected with Ebola, this diagnostic, called the D4-assay, proved to be 1000 times more sensitive than the currently approved rapid diagnostic test and capable of detecting the virus a full day earlier than the gold standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. This work, which ...

The Air Force Dressed Up This A-29 in Vintage Air Commando Colors Kyle Mizokami © Sierra Nevada Corp. The U.S. Air Force dressed up this A-29 in vintage livery. The paint scheme is a throwback to the Air Force’s World War II-era“Air Commando” colors. The U.S. Air Force is adding three new A-29 Super Tucano light-attack aircraft to its global inventory. The Air Force will use the aircraft to train foreign pilots. The paint scheme is a throwback to the Air Force’s Wo...