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Swedish submarine Gotland alongside with Swedish flag

Saab and Sweden built and launched a large uncrewed underwater vehicle demonstrator less than a year after the contract award, and it has completed sea trials, Saab says

From signed order to a vehicle in the water took under 12 months, by Saab’s

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Air Force EOD airman measuring a practice ordnance item

Air Force bomb-disposal airmen will earn a distinctive rust-colored beret, the service’s top enlisted leader announced at the graduation of the first Project MAMBA course

Rust is the color the Air Force picked, and the choice was not about looks.

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American infantry and tanks in a ruined Aachen street, 1944

How U.S. troops took Aachen on Oct. 21, 1944, the first large German city lost in the war, according to the Army’s official history

Five minutes past noon on Oct. 21, 1944, the fight for Aachen ended in a

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Long, low gold Goldenrod land speed car in a museum

Goldenrod’s four Chrysler Hemi V-8s pushed it to an average of 409.277 mph at Bonneville in 1965, a wheel-driven land speed record that stood for 26 years

Four Chrysler Hemis in a row, no superchargers, and a body 28 inches high at

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Anduril YFQ-44A Fury drone in a hangar test chamber

An F-22 pilot acted as an airborne quarterback for an Anduril YFQ-44A Fury drone during a multi-hour flight from Edwards Air Force Base, sending it a new mission plan by data link

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A Raptor and a Fury took off from the

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Wright Military Flyer biplane reproduction in a museum

The 1909 Wright Military Flyer, which the Smithsonian calls the world’s first military airplane, sold to the Army for $30,000 after beating its 40 mph speed requirement with a 42.5 mph average

Two miles per hour over the line was worth $5,000 in the summer of 1909.

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8th Psychological Operations Group unit insignia

The Army has inactivated its 8th Psychological Operations Group at Fort Bragg, the youngest of its four PSYOP groups, after 15 years of service

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The colors of the 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) were folded

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BLU-82 bomb on its cradle in a museum hangar

How C-130 crews dropped the BLU-82, a 15,000-pound bomb only cargo aircraft could carry, by parachute to clear helicopter landing zones about 260 feet across

The BLU-82/B weighed 15,000 pounds and was built to make room, not to hit a

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Rows of white headstones and the entrance gate at Poelcapelle British Cemetery

A Yorkshire Regiment soldier killed in the Ypres Salient in April 1915 was buried in Belgium on Oct. 13, after workmen digging a rainwater cistern found his remains in 2021

A trench dug for a rainwater cistern in St Juliaan, Belgium, turned up a First

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White Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV parked on a street

Volkswagen is recalling 22,524 ID.4 electric SUVs from the 2023 to 2026 model years because the high-voltage battery may fail and lead to a fire, and a remedy is still under development

Eighty percent is the number Volkswagen now wants ID.4 owners watching on the charge screen.

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