U.S. President Joe Biden’s plans to cancel the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear program have emerged as an early political brawl in a brewing fight over next year’s defense budget.
Pilot Gail S. Halvorsen used his own candy ration to regularly drop sweet treats for children, using handkerchiefs as parachutes to carry the to the ground.
The Navy is satisfied that land-based and at-sea testing of the new combining gear system — and its bearings, specifically — sufficiently wrung out the new design, and now the service can move forward with installing the fix in new-construction and in-service ships.
Biden sending a B1-B bomber into the region allows him to send “a clear message of reassurance” to regional allies, as the U.S. Air Force’s Central Command put it on Twitter.