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8 October 1918 During World War I and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, former pacifist and young American soldier Cpl Alvin Cullum York - later to be known as Sergeant York - leads an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others. The effort earns him the Medal of Honor.

DGA Receives the First Retrofitted Navy Rafale (Defense Aerospace)

7 October 2001 The United States launches military operations in Afghanistan.

US uses PGMs against area targets in Syria (Jane's) Seems I wasn't the only one thinking SDB.

Obviously I think its the latter. I am happy to hear that.

Grumble, I have always played with manually organized and set up patrols wherever possible. I would like to have the 'Ready 5' option as well, though I expect it would be better packaged in a general overhaul of how aircraft ready times are calculated and organized.

6 October 1973 Egypt and Syria launch an attack on Israel, marking the start of the Yom Kippur War.

Thanks for carrying the flag at NAVCON, guys.

3 October 1967 William 'Pete' Knight takes the X-15A-2 to a speed of 6,630 feet per second (4,520 mph), establishing a world aircraft speed record that still stands.

The Best Handgun Ever Stopped Attackers Cold The 1911 .. its must have.

2 October 1966 Soviet Defense Ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zuezda reports that Soviet personnel have come under fire during American air raids against SAM sites in North Vietnam. It constitutes the first public acknowledgment that the Soviets were actively training and assisting North Vietnamese missile crews, and up until this point, the Soviets had denied they had personnel in North Vietnam.

Russia preparing legal action over French Mistral halt (Jane's)

1 October 1985 In response to a terrorist attack near Cyprus that killed three Israelis, the IDF carries out Operation Wooden Leg, a precision strike against the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at Tunis, more than 2,000 km away.

S-400 Air Defense Regiment Takes up Duty in Russia's South Solidifying the grip on Crimea, no doubt.

Interesting, but of doubtful practical use, imho. Weapons like AT-9 and AT-16 are considerably more useful in the roles in which the Ka-52K is likely to find itself.

Russian Navy receives first Ka-52KM naval helicopter (Jane's)

Japans Largest Warship Since World War II Takes To Sea (USNI News)

30 September 2004 The vaunted Hughes/Raytheon AIM-54 Phoenix beyond visual range air-to-air missile is retired from US Navy service. The only aircraft that could carry it, the F-14 Tomcat, follows two years later.

TonyE beat me to it. And will somebody create a Caucasus battleset already!

Looks Like Chinas Sending a Stealth Fighter to Sea (War is Boring blog)

Yeah, I noticed the aggressive behaviour of the tail gunners during testing. Kinda amusing that we have to worry about the AI being too aggressive sometimes.

29 September 1990 The Lockheed YF-22 (PAV-1, serial 87-0070) takes to the air for the first time, at Palmdale, California. It goes into production and eventual service as the F-22 Raptor, but does not engage in its first operational combat mission until 22 September 2014.

Lots of pics and video here. Pounding ISIS from the air, from the sea (DefenseNews, Intercepts blog)

26 September 1983 The Soviet Union's Oko satellite early warning system detects the launch of 5 missiles from the United States. Duty officer Stanislav Petrov is skeptical of its validity and judges it (correctly) to have been a false alarm. Potential nuclear catastrophe is averted.

What the semi-submersible vessel Transshelf has been up to since Global Thunder: "Transshelf" Departs Russia with Nuke Boats (7FBTK blog)