The Army is ending an experiment with a dedicated drone battalion less than a year after tasking the infantry unit to test how such a formation could operate, an Army official said on Thursday.In November 2025, U.S. Army Europe and Africa, in collaboration with the Department of the Army and U.S. European Command, charged the unit with learning from dedicated drone forces, including those fielded by Ukraine, and feeding those lessons back to the Army to support the Pentagon’s push for U.S. drone dominance. The official, who spoke on background, said in a statement that after the massive, multinational Exercise…

Trying to understand kinetic energy can be confusing, but here we break down how it affects terminal performance.When shooters seek information about the performance of handgun ammunition for personal protection they most often look at bullet caliber and weight, plus muzzle velocity and muzzle energy. Of those four metrics, bullet caliber and weight and muzzle velocity are the easiest for us to wrap our heads around. We can see the size of the bullet, feel how much it weighs, and we are intimately familiar with speed. What shooters find difficult to comprehend is kinetic energy due to a lack of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man believed to have been the longest-serving prisoner in U.S. history has died at the age of 101, having his execution scheduled and postponed eight times as he maintained his innocence despite a murder conviction in Connecticut.Francis Clifford Smith died in his sleep in late June at 60 West, a secured Connecticut nursing facility that cares for older people in the justice system, according to the facility.Smith, who was just months away from turning 102, was cremated without a funeral.”Essentially, he died of old age,” 60 West spokesman David Skoczulek told…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A charter flight carrying two pilots and six passengers crashed while approaching a remote site in western Alaska on Thursday, officials said.Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region chief, told The Associated Press that two pilots and six passengers were on board.Johnson did not immediately have information on their conditions.The plane took off from Anchorage and is believed to have crashed early Thursday afternoon while approaching Cape Newenham, according to the AP.PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE HELICOPTER, SMALL PLANE COLLIDE IN MIDAIR, KILLING 1 AND INJURING 2 STATE TROOPERS The twin-engine Cessna…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man dressed up as the “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader showed up at a San Diego City Council meeting to mockingly defend Flock police surveillance cameras, telling council members “this is what the emperor needs.”He approached the podium at the Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting on Wednesday, complete with Darth Vader’s trademark heavy breathing heard through the council chamber’s microphone.The committee members even addressed the man as ‘Darth Vader’ as he appeared to mock the Flock-linked surveillance system, suggesting the surveillance tool could be an asset to the dark…

Another new TOPS model to talk about: the Silent Hero 4 Tanto. It’s more than just a new blade shape here, with alterations across the board to fit the Silent Hero concept into a tactical use category. There is an interesting history behind this new Silent Hero 4 release. It originates in the Silent Hero, a fixed blade designed by Anton du Plessis to be the all-purpose fixed blade tool for his work in the field against poaching operations in South Africa. The original TOPS Silent Hero had a blade length of 6.38 inches, and eventually it spawned the Silent…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1—800-273-TALK (8255).When Patrick Clancy took the stand in his ex-wife’s murder trial, he had already begun building a new life hundreds of miles away in New York City, over four hours away from the Duxbury, Massachusetts home where Lindsay Clancy killed their her kids.Lindsay Clancy, 36, faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children — Cora, Dawson and Callan, all under age 6 — who were found strangled at…

Yesterday’s topic of discussion was the TOPS Silent Hero 4 Tanto, a full-sized tactical knife (albeit scaled down from its outdoors knife predecessor). Today we’re looking at another fixed blade, but one that is much smaller, and with a much different use category: the Boker Plus Li’l Friend Micro. With a name like that, we don’t need to tell you that the Friend is not a tactical knife, nor a hard use one in the broader sense. No, this one is a EDC fixie, and one on the smaller side with a 1.38-inch drop point blade. That being said, the…

And now a reminder that Fernando Mendoza is going to have some difficult moments as a rookie, even though he was the NFL’s first overall draft pick and is the hope for a bright future for the Las Vegas Raiders.On his second pass of the preseason game against the Houston Texans on Thursday night, Mendoza threw an interception.And not just any interception, because Texans linebacker Wade Woodaz plucked the ball out of the air and returned it 80 yards for a touchdown.RAIDERS ROOKIE FERNANDO MENDOZA THANKS GOD FOR NFL DEBUT THAT COMPARES FAVORABLY WITH ‘MR. BRADY’ No bueno, as they…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A jury awarded $550,000 to two teenage girls who were left hanging upside down for nearly 30 minutes when an amusement park ride malfunctioned in Oregon.The jury voted 10-2 this week to award the teens $275,000 each in their case against Oaks Park and ride manufacturer Zamperla over the June 2024 malfunction of the AtmosFEAR ride in Portland, according to FOX 12 Oregon.About 30 riders were stranded upside down when the spinning pendulum-style ride became stuck in a vertical position on June 14, 2024.EXCLUSIVE: TEEN GIRLS RECALL JERSEY SHORE RIDE MALFUNCTION THAT…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Vice President JD Vance offered an unfiltered assessment Thursday of some of the biggest names in politics in a rapid-fire TikTok, calling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a “communist,” Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., “lame” and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani “crazy.”The vice president was asked to describe a succession of Democrats, Trump administration officials and other political figures as their names flashed across a screen, producing a 30-second barrage of answers that ranged from complimentary to cutting.Vance appeared particularly unimpressed with far-left Democrats. He described Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as “cranky”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville did not mince words when he unloaded on his party’s far-left insurgency on Thursday.”We get subjugated by some of the more outspoken people who, by the way, [are] not even Democrats,” Carville said during a video news conference.”I wish they’d take the word Democrat out of their name. I have no idea why the Democratic socialists — if you hate the Democratic Party so much, well, then don’t use our god—- name. Go think of your own name.”JAMES CARVILLE BLAMES BERNIE SANDERS FOR TRUMP BEING PRESIDENT IN…