How Hitler’s fear-inducing ‘flying bomb’ ushered in drone warfare
The V-1 "flying bomb" could accurately be described in today’s nomenclature as an unmanned aerial vehicle — moreover, as the first suicide drone.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
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US destroyers head toward Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure cartels
The deployment comes as Trump pushes for using the U.S. military to thwart cartels he blames for the flow of illicit drugs into American communities.
After chase, US Navy, Coast Guard intercept 1,296 pounds of cocaine
The U.S. Coast Guard employed a Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter to fire at and disable a smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific.
By Riley Ceder
8 decades after Hiroshima atomic bombing, search for missing continues
When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago in Hiroshima, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima.
How the US bombarded Iranian nuclear sites while avoiding detection
Taking off from the U.S. heartland, B-2 stealth bombers, aided by refueling tankers and fighter jets, delivered a total of 420,000 pounds of explosives.
Keel laid for guided-missile destroyer USS Quentin Walsh
The ship's namesake, U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Quentin Walsh, helped plan the capture of Cherbourg in the days leading up to D-Day during World War II.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher