The guided missile cruiser Antietam suffered a small fire on Sept. 24, resulting in minor injuries for 13 sailors, the Navy said Tuesday. “Crew members quickly extinguished the fire with no damage to engineering equipment and Antietam remains fully operational,” 7th Fleet spokesperson Cmdr. Reann Mommsen said in an email to Navy Times. “During the […]
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Army AMD test 2, Aug. 20 See the launch of a Black Dagger target missile from three different angles. The launch took place in Gallup, N.M., in support of the Army’s Integrated Air Missile Defense system and Army Futures Command. (Army) Soldiers with a select air and missile defense battalion knocked down both a cruise […]
Want to buy a Cold War-era command center and missile silo? Well, you’re in luck. One in Fairdale, North Dakota, is now available for auction, and it’s got everything … except the ordnance. Located just south the Canadian border, the site, which was commissioned in the 1970s, was defunded before it was ever put to […]
Want to buy a Cold War-era command center and missile silo? Well, you’re in luck. One in Fairdale, North Dakota, is now available for auction, and it’s got everything … except the ordnance. Located just south the Canadian border, the site, which was commissioned in the 1970s, was defunded before it was ever put to […]
Want to buy a Cold War-era command center and missile silo? Well, you’re in luck. One in Fairdale, North Dakota, is now available for auction, and it’s got everything … except the ordnance. Located just south the Canadian border, the site, which was commissioned in the 1970s, was defunded before it was ever put to […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state television reported on Tuesday, an exercise aimed at threatening the U.S. amid tensions between Tehran and Washington. The drill, in a waterway through which 20 percent of all traded […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing 19 Iranian sailors and wounding 15, Iran’s military and state media said Monday, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington. The statement significantly raised the death toll in Sunday’s incident […]