Within hours of the Hamas attack on Israel last month, a Silicon Valley drone company called Skydio began receiving emails from the Israeli military. The requests were for the company’s short-range reconnaissance drones — small flying vehicles used by the U.S. Army to navigate obstacles autonomously and produce 3D scans of complex structures like buildings....
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US Weapons Sent To Europe For Ukraine War Make Reverse Trip To Israel
Rubble from destroyed residential buildings fills a street after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. The Pentagon has quietly ramped up military aid to Israel, delivering on requests that include more laser-guided missiles for its Apache gunship fleet, as well as 155mm shells, night-vision devices, bunker-buster munitions and new army vehicles, according to an internal Defense...
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U.S. military aircraft crashes in eastern Mediterranean during training operation, Pentagon says
A U.S. military aircraft crashed Friday night while taking part in a training operation in the eastern Mediterranean, the Pentagon said. The aircraft “suffered a mishap and went down,” U.S. European Command — which is responsible for U.S. military operations across Europe, portions of Asia and the Middle East, the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean...
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Scoop! Why Ben from Ben & Jerry’s blames America for war in Ukraine
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Ben Cohen wasn’t talking about ice cream. He was talking about American militarism. At 72, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is bald and bespectacled. He looks fit, cherubic even, but when he got going on what it was like to grow...
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Biden authorizes sending an additional 3,000 reserves to Europe
Biden authorizes sending an additional 3,000 reserve troops to Europe amid return from trip where he vowed to defend ‘every inch’ of NATO territory and said Putin had already lost the war The authorization came hours after Biden returned from Helsinki He vowed to defend NATO’s newest ally Finland U.S. is providing new munitions to...
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The US wants Europe to buy American weapons; the EU has other ideas
This article is part of the Europe’s strategic impotence Special Report. At NATO summit after NATO summit, European leaders get a clear public message from Washington — increase spending on defense. In private, there’s another message that’s just as clear — make sure a lot of that extra spending goes on U.S. weapons. European leaders...