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As 60 enemy fighters closed in on a U.S. Air Force 4th Generation fighter aircraft, blinding the jet with electronic warfare attacks, an... Read More
Inactive frigates, destroyers and other mothballed vessels won't be making their way back to the fleet, Navy leaders have decided, as they... Read More
The KC-46 kicked off its next phase of testing by refueling a stealth aircraft for the first time, the Air Force announced.On Jan. 22, a... Read More
The search for a permanent replacement for former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis—a candidate who will satisfy both the... Read More
Many Americans remember the Iranian Revolution in 1979 for the storming of the U.S. embassy and the hostage crisis that followed. That,... Read More
The bill that avoided a second government shutdown finally provided the $655 million for a badly needed new icebreaker for the Coast Guard... Read More
U.S. Africa Command has begun cutting up to 10 percent of its forces from the continent in response to U.S. security challenges elsewhere,... Read More
A 49-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant is in custody and faces domestic terrorism charges for allegedly planning "to murder innocent civilians... Read More
The same groups that hit the DNC recently targeted prominent think tanks, including one election-monitoring organizationMicrosoft has... Read More
Any U.S. pursuit of victory over North Korea could spark a corrosive, lethal, escalatory dynamic with Pyongyang, one from which Washington... Read More
Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking during his state-of-the-nation address Wednesday, warned that Russia will aim new hypersonic... Read More
U.S. Cyber Command plans to spend as much as $75 million in fiscal 2019 to help provide the tools and capabilities the Department of... Read More
Through quick thinking and communication, the Offutt-based crew of an RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance jet prevented the failure of a series... Read More
A judge ruled this week that an Iraqi general eyewitness who says Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher did not kill a wounded ISIS prisoner while... Read More
Crystal Cornwall had moved into a military house on Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, when termites fell out of the light fixtures onto... Read More
The Pentagon's revitalized privatization program to upgrade their military bases has not produced quality results, according to many military... Read More
The EU's announced intention to ban Huawei 5G technology is symptomatic of the winds of change blowing through Europe, and its bad... Read More
People with high-functioning autism should not have to hide their disability to serve their country, this author writes. Read More
More From Real Clear
RealClearDefense Wednesday
To dismiss the T-14 main battle tank (MBT) as a capable piece of hardware by claiming high cost prohibits widespread deployment is risky. My... Read More
The U.S. Air Force will go ahead and buy brand-new F-15s even as it purchases large numbers of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Updated with... Read More
The Navy is making lethality enhancing “modifications” to its next several new Ford-class aircraft carriers, to include... Read More
Ship designer Sun Bo reportedly met with foreign agents and shared military secrets. How damaging that intel might be is unclear, but the... Read More
The Marine Corps wants to select and field a long-range anti-ship missile “as fast as possible” to support the Navy in a fight... Read More
Europe and the Trump administration have stopped pretending to respect each other. For the past two years, we have been treated to a... Read More
More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were... Read More
The U.S. destroyer Donald Cook re-entered the Black Sea Tuesday to conduct exercises with Ukraine and other allies, the Navy announced... Read More
In Iraq, M113 variants were deemed too vulnerable to roadside bombs and confined to base. But in a fast-moving mechanized war in Eastern... Read More
Iran has unveiled a homemade submarine that the nation says is capable of firing cruise missiles several hundred miles and staying more than... Read More
Their victims have less than a half-hour before an initial breach becomes wider data theft or destruction.Nineteen minutes. That's how long... Read More
A joint venture of Honeywell International Inc and Pratt & Whitney on Tuesday protested the U.S. Army's decision to award General... Read More
The U.S. Navy's recent decision to focus on “Education for Seapower” comes not a minute too soon. The initiative, announced last... Read More
President Trump signs Space Policy Directive 4 at the Oval Office. In attendance were Vice President Mike Pence and a large group of senior... Read More
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has divided $739 million in launch contracts between United Launch Alliance and SpaceX for six... Read More
Engaging in open debate will be crucial for the UK Intelligence Community to gain public trust regarding the use of artificial intelligence... Read More
U.S. Cyber Command plans to spend as much as $75 million in fiscal 2019 to help provide the tools and capabilities the Department of Defense's cyberwarriors need and to help separate those systems from the equipment the organization has long borrowed from the intelligence community.That figure is 70 percent higher than what the organization spent in fiscal 2018, but after many years of building cy Read More
MARINE MOUNTAIN WARFARE TRAINING CENTER, Calif. (AP) — Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high in the Sierra Nevada. Their laminated targeting map is wedged into the ice just below the machine gun.Nearly 8,000 feet (2,440 meters) up at a training center in the California mountains, the Read More
MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on Putin’s state-of-the-nation speech (all times local):6:10 p.m.The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing a test of a new nuclear-powered underwater drone.The brief video showing the Poseidon’s test launch was released Wednesday shortly after President Vladimir Putin mentioned the new weapon in his state-of-the-nation address. It showed the drone and Read More
