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"We learned a lot of skills that were multi-capable back in the late 1980s that we are now dusting off."

In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan -- and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest -- is being revived.Including, on August 6 and August 9 of that year, the planes that dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The US Air Force has a plan to spread out to new bases to avoid incoming attacks. Now it's working hard to make them a "meaningful" option.

All three airfields housing Russian military helicopters in the occupied territories of Ukraine are now within range of ATACMS missiles, former Aidar Battalion platoon commander Yevhen Dykyi said in an interview with Radio NV on Oct. 20.

Experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have analysed the implications for Russia of Ukraine's deployment of long-range ATACMS missiles, which would pose a threat to Russian aircraft and their ammunition storage points in the rear.