31/07/2015 - The commander of the Marine Corps, General Joseph Dunford, has declared the first squadron of F-35Bs operational and ready for combat. The news came a few minutes ago. The Marines are the first corps in the world to declare the F-35's Initial Operational Capability.

31/07/2015 - Facebook's first solar-powered drone will begin flight tests by the end of the year. It would be better to call it Super-Drone, considering its wingspan as large as that of a Boeing 737. This is what the next phase of the campaign foresees to provide Internet connectivity even in the most remote parts of the world.

30/07/2015 - TheAmerican Media Institute (AMI) obtained a document of 32 pages in Urdu language from a Pakistani citizen close to the Taliban, with the new ISIS strategy. The document contains information relating to a plot to target American diplomats and Pakistani officials as well as US soldiers during their withdrawal from Afghanistan.

30/07/2015 - “Never again. We will never again make the mistakes we made with the development of the F-35 ”. To utter these words, a few hours ago a Military.com, the Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James.

30/07/2015 - Two cybersecurity experts, Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger, took control of the Tracking Point TP750 electronic aiming system software installed on a sniper rifle, with a small laptop and a Wi-Fi connection . Hackers found loopholes in the weapon's security system.

29/07/2015 - The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, would be dead. This is what the Afghan government says. There was no comment from the militant group. The leader of the terrorist group, according to the BBC, died two or three years ago. There have been several reports collected (including on his alleged death) over the years on the solitary leader of the Taliban, however this is the first of the Afghan government.

28/07/2015 - Guys, mostly children. They run through the streets of a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. They don't spend their holidays playing, but they train in urban warfare against the Islamic State. The instructors teach them how to move around the streets, handle small arms and make them work, protecting them from the sand.

28/07/2015 - The Marine Corps has completed the tests and completed the paperwork necessary to transform the F-35 into an operational aircraft. This is what General Jon Davis, deputy commander of the Marine aviation, said a few hours ago.

27/07/2015 - The Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), former Colombian President Ernesto Samper, met with the United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Ban Ki - moon, last week, and together they agreed on the need for achieving peace in Colombia, one of the main themes that characterized Samper's visit.

27/07/2014 - The executioner of the Islamic State known as 'Jihadi John' has allegedly fled to Syria. According to what the British newspaper has learned The Mirror, Mohammed Emwazi would be terrified. Just him, the symbol of the atrocities of Isis, immortalized with bravado while slaughtering American and British hostages, now would tremble at the thought of seeing the light of the sun.

25/07/2015 - The tactical battlefield of 2050 will exceed all expectations as killer robots and Super-Humans play a leading role in the wars of the future. This is the forecast of the US Department of Defense and the US Army Research Lab (ARL), in a study published a few hours ago entitled "Visualizing the Tactical Ground Battlefield in the Year 2050: Workshop Report".

24/07/2015 - Moscow will receive six modernized Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range carriers by the end of 2015. The bombers will be deployed in Crimea, for possible strategic projection missions (land and naval) in response to the Operation Atlantic Resolve of the United States. This is how they communicate from the Russian Ministry of Defense.

24/07/2015 - The first cell is under construction in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. Final assembly will be completed by the end of 2015, with a first flight taking place in the middle of next year.

23/07/2015 - "The F-35B could enter service in the next few hours with the Marine Corps, with the Initial Operational Capability reached, but what they told us about the performance of the fighter, is totally far-fetched, with that capacity (just to give an example) in Close Air Support, which it will not acquire before 2021. The F-35 is the archetype of a system costing billions of dollars, which implements immature technology coupled with completely unstable ".

22/07/2015 - Speaking at a press conference Abbas Araqchi, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, stressed that although there are seven types of weapons subject to restrictions for Iran, these would not include the S-300s.

22/07/2015 - Last January, the 29-year-old Valdet Gashi, who grew up in the district of Egna, in Bavaria, told his wife and two daughters that he would go first to Switzerland and then to Thailand. The news did not surprise family members: Valdet Gashi was two times Thai boxing world champion, that trip would have been part of a perfecting course for the athlete, who has now become an internationally renowned instructor.

22/07/2015 - Finland has decided to increase its military budget to provide adequate training for its new rapid reaction force. According to the Finnish Defense Minister, Jussi Niinisto a Defense News, "the soldiers will be employed in four military districts to protect Finland from a possible invasion by Russia".

21/07/2015 - The Islamic State in Syria has banned private internet connection in its capital Raqqa, with a crackdown on spies and activists who reveal the terrorist group's daily atrocities. Those who live in the stronghold will be able to use the network only at the internet cafes, managed and controlled by the caliph's officials.

21/07/2015 - F-22 Raptor: the best fighter in the world (at least that's what the Americans say).

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21/07/2015 - Marines could declare Initial Operational Capability by July. The tests have ended, we are now in the evaluation phase. They do not hide a certain enthusiasm from Lockheed Martin, regarding the possible entry into service of the F-35B already in the coming days.