EXERCISE AT AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST: An MV-22 revs up at night.

KILLER GIRLFRIENDS: Dating sites at war.

A C-17 TAKES OFF: The crew’s demonstrating the big transport’s ability to operate from a “short” runway.

TURKEY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CANCEL ITS PURCHASE OF RUSSIAN S-400 MISSILES.

WHEN GOLDFINGER PAINTS YOU GOLD: BBC Culture has some fun with great Hollywood fake history.

RELATED: Shirley Eaton is definitely alive. Dig this quote from June 18, 2008: “The most important thing for me was being a woman and having a family more than being a very famous glamorous actress.” Looks like she fulfilled all three roles rather successfully.

DARPA AND AMERICA’S ELECTRONICS RESURGENCE INITIATIVE: Well worth reading.

AN A-10 DRESSED FOR LATVIA: A Michigan Air National Guard A-10 lands at Lielvarde Air Base, Latvia.

AIRBASE 201, THERE IS A STORM ON THE HORIZON: An approaching sandstorm in Niger, June 24, 2018.

SO GET A GOOD NIGHT’S REST: The brain may clean out Alzheimer’s plaques during sleep. Sleep is a “rinse cycle.”

THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Japanese aircraft carrier departs Pearl Harbor! The Ise is a helicopter carrier, even though Japan calls it a “destroyer helicopter ship.” The Japanese could operate F-35B vertical take off jet fighters from the Ise and similar ships.

HOW TO BUILD A MOUNTAIN RANGE: Rise of the Andes. “…the Andes did not rise gradually over the last 45 million years, but lurched skyward in dramatic pulses.” Good read.

LIGHTNING LIVE FIRE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO: An F-35A Lightning II test fires an air-to-air missile over the Gulf of Mexico.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Sweden prepares for Russian aggression.

ULTRA COOL: A binary asteroid. Check out the images. Image Number 4 of 2017 YE5 is a radar image. The binary asteroid recently passed within 3.7 million miles of Earth.

SWEDEN PREPARES FOR RUSSIAN AGGRESSION: In case you missed it –my latest Creators Syndicate column.

SWEDEN PREPARES FOR RUSSIAN AGGRESSION: Yes, Sweden.

UPDATE: Link fixed. The June 2018 Home Guard drill is telling.

FLARE SHOWER OVER UTAH: F-15E Strike Eagles fire flares over the Utah Test and Training Range, July 3, 2018.

LAST CHARGE OF THE 11th CAV: A fancy change of command ceremony at Fort Irwin.

SUPER HERC FIREWORKS: Nice color photo of a C-130J Super Hercules sitting on the flight line during a fireworks display at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 3, 2018.

IRAN’S INTERNAL WAR: My latest Creators Syndicate column.

Since roughly 1995, this has been Iran’s deep question: when will the Iranian people be willing to spill their own blood to confront the clerical dictatorship.

The ayatollahs are in trouble.

SUPER HORNET TANKER MISSION: This photo shows two F/A-18E Super Hornets. One is “buddy refueling” the other. This capability extends the range of F/A-18E strike aircraft.

IRAN’S INTERNAL CLASH.

BEASTLY JUSTICE: Lions eat rhino poachers in a South African game preserve.

Rangers discovered the remains of two, possibly three, people in a lion enclosure in the Sibuya reserve, near the south-east town of Kenton-on-Sea.

A high-powered rifle and an axe were also found.

There has been an rise in poaching in Africa in recent years, to feed growing demand for rhino horn in parts of Asia.

In China, Vietnam and elsewhere, rhino horn is erroneously believed to have aphrodisiac qualities.

Sex and violence?

DUST IN AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: A C-17 Globemaster III readies for departure from an undisclosed location, June 23, 2018.

RIMPAC: An Indonesian Navy guided-missile frigate enters Pearl Harbor in preparation for Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise 2018. Indonesia and several of its neighbors issues with China’s fake islands in the South China Sea.