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US Army plans high-altitude spy balloons to bust enemy stealth fighter jets
After researching for years, the US Army has finally allocated funding of $4.2 billion over the next 10 years for aerostat ...
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The history of aerial photography from hot air balloons to pigeons to drones
Thaddeus Lowe, who once worked for President Lincoln doing aerial reconnaissance work, eventually came to Pasadena to ...
Smithsonian Magazine6d
A Beautiful Biplane Represents a Future That Never Was
The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is home to some of the titans of aviation history—think the ...
A behind-the-scenes look at the 2 weeks leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter: Part 2
A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...
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What to know about Myanmar’s civil war, which is complicating earthquake relief efforts
Relief efforts from Friday’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake will be especially complicated with the country in embroiled in civil war, which began after the army seized power from the ...
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UN chief: World leaders must speak with one voice to prevent a new civil war in South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief urged regional and international leaders Friday to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” into another civil war and speak with one ...
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Airman who was shot down, imprisoned in Japan during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday. U.S. Army Air ...
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Sudan’s army returns to capital after nearly two years of civil war
Sudan’s army said Wednesday it had recaptured Khartoum’s international airport, and the military chief flew back to the capital for the first time in nearly two years of war, bringing the ...
Al Jazeera English18d
What’s happened in Sudan’s civil war after new Khartoum battles?
Sudanese citizens celebrate in Port Sudan after the Sudanese army deepened its control over the capital, Khartoum, on March 27, 2025 [Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters] Sudan’s civil war could ...
New York Post18d
In the Democrats’ looming civil war, one side is already doomed
In the last few days we’ve heard what sound like the opening salvos of a Democratic Party civil war. After losing two of the last three presidential elections to Donald Trump, self-reflection is ...
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Israel Gaza War LIVE Update:Israeli strikes kill Hamas spokesman, family of six in Gaza overnight
19:27 (IST) Mar 26 Palestinians protest Hamas in a rare public show of dissent in Gaza Palestinians in Gaza have staged rare protests against Hamas amid ongoing war with Israel, expressing ...
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Civil War in Sudan
The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...