Nicholas Slayton

Los Angeles

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Articles

Report: No clear strategy for maintaining Guam missile defense

1 week ago | taskandpurpose.com | Nicholas Slayton

Despite being a central part of the U.S. military’s strategy in the Pacific, there still isn’t a clear strategy for maintaining the missile defense systems on Guam. That’s according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, which found that different military services have not fully determined when they will take over sustainment for missile defense equipment.
When the Army tried out nuclear artillery

1 week ago | taskandpurpose.com | Nicholas Slayton

72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear artillery test. The military actually made an atomic artillery shell, loaded it into a 280mm cannon and fired it. And it worked. Task & Purpose has covered many of the dangerous, strategically questionable and outright bizarre Cold War-era nuclear weapon designs and programs.
When the Army tried out nuclear artillery

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Slayton

72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear artillery test. The military actually made an atomic artillery shell, loaded it into a 280mm cannon and fired it. And it worked. Task & Purpose has covered many of the dangerous, strategically questionable and outright bizarre Cold War-era nuclear weapon designs and programs.
Expedition captures the first ever images of the wreck of a World War I submarine

2 weeks ago | taskandpurpose.com | Nicholas Slayton

After more than 100 years, we have the first actual image of the wreck of a sunken U.S. Navy submarine from World War I. A recent expedition to survey it and other lost military hardware has captured video and photographs of the USS F-1. This week the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Naval History and Heritage Command shared the results from a deep-sea dive conducted in February and March of this year.
101st Airborne tapped as first unit to get new Black Hawk replacement

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Slayton

The 101st Airborne Division will be the first unit to get the Army’s new tiltrotor aircraft. This week the Army announced that the 101st will get to use Bell’s V-280 Valor, a next-generation replacement for the aging H-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, the division’s attached aviation unit, will receive the aircraft, which recently was given its official mission-design series designator of the MV-75.
Nothing is over! They’re making a ‘Rambo’ origin story

2 weeks ago | taskandpurpose.com | Nicholas Slayton

Get your bandanas out one more time because John Rambo is coming back to the big screen. Several Hollywood trade publications are reporting that Millennium Media, the company behind “The Expendables” and “Olympus Has Fallen” franchises, is currently at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival market shopping a new film detailing John Rambo’s early days. Yes, we are getting a Rambo origin film.
Nothing is over! They’re making a ‘Rambo’ origin movie

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Slayton

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysGet your bandanas out one more time because John Rambo is coming back to the big screen.
The Army takes steps so its 250th birthday parade won't destroy DC streets

3 weeks ago | taskandpurpose.com | Nicholas Slayton

The U.S. Army plans to line Washington, D.C. streets with metal sheets to prevent tanks and other vehicles from damaging the roads during its parade next month. The Associated Press, citing a U.S. official, reports that the Army will install several heavy metal plates at specific points in Washington, D.C. to avoid tearing up the pavement.
The Army takes steps so its 250th birthday parade won’t destroy DC streets

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Slayton

The U.S. Army plans to line Washington, D.C. streets with metal sheets to prevent tanks and other vehicles from damaging the roads during its parade next month. The Associated Press, citing a U.S. official, reports that the Army will install several heavy metal plates at specific points in Washington, D.C. to avoid tearing up the pavement.
101st Airborne tapped as first unit to get new Black Hawk replacement

3 weeks ago | taskandpurpose.com | Nicholas Slayton

The 101st Airborne Division will be the first unit to get the Army’s new tiltrotor aircraft. This week the Army announced that the 101st will get to use Bell’s V-280 Valor, a next-generation replacement for the aging H-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, the division’s attached aviation unit, will receive the aircraft, which recently was given its official mission-design series designator of the MV-75.