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In December 2024, the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG-64) mistakenly engaged two Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighters over the Red Sea during intense operations against Houthi drones and missiles firing SM-2 surface-to-air missiles that downed one fighter and nearly hit another. Investigators blamed misidentification during a complex battle environment, sensor and IFF failures, and lack of cohesion between the cruiser and the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, leading to one of th

GPS Pioneer Dr. Gladys West Dies at 95 Dr. Gladys West, the brilliant mathematician whose groundbreaking work made modern GPS technology possible, died January 17, 2026, at age 95. Born on a Virginia tobacco farm in 1930 during Jim Crow segregation, West became valedictorian, earned mathematics degrees, and in 1956 became the second Black woman hired at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. For 42 years, she developed complex algorithms using the IBM 7030 supercomputer to create precise geodetic mod

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