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101st Airborne Division. The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) ("Screaming Eagles") [2] is an air assault infantry division of the United States Army that specializes in air assault operations. [3] It can plan, coordinate, and execute battalion -sized air assault operations to seize terrain.
By October 1986 all heavy army and national guard divisions, including the 1st Cavalry Division, had transitioned to the Army of Excellence J-series TOE. [57] Thus the division's tank battalions fielded 58 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks , 6 M3 Bradley cavalry fighting vehicles and 6 M106A2 mortar carriers. [ 58 ]
Two US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters collided near Mosul, Iraq. Twenty-two soldiers were on both aircraft and 17 were killed. 29 November An Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Antonov An-26, 9T-TAD, blew out a tire while landing in Boende, Democratic Republic of the Congo, overran the runway and crashed into a market ...
US Army conducts training exercise on Alaskan island less than 300 miles from Russia. Max Hauptman, USA TODAY. September 17, 2024 at 12:59 PM. U.S. Army soldiers were deployed to the remote Shemya ...
Belarus. Kazakhstan. Ukraine. v. t. e. Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. [1]
The 353d Special Operations Group (353 SOG) is the focal point for all U.S. Air Force special operations activities throughout the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) theater. Headquartered at Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan the group is prepared to conduct a variety of high-priority, low-visibility missions.
The Army plans to divest 7,456 vehicles and retain 8,585. Of the total number of vehicles the Army is to keep, 5,036 are to be stored, 1,073 are used for training, and the remainder are spread across the active force. The Oshkosh M-ATV will be kept the most at 5,681 vehicles, as it is smaller and lighter than other MRAPs for off-road mobility.
Man-portable launcher. The FGM-148 Javelin, or Advanced Anti-Tank Weapon System-Medium (AAWS-M), is an American-made man-portable anti-tank system in service since 1996 and continuously upgraded. It replaced the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service. [11] Its fire-and-forget design features automatic infrared guidance, allowing the user to ...