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Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS-1) left a pier in San Diego, Calif., for the first time in more than two years, after an extensive... Read More
Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday it has delivered the first Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles to the U.S. Air Force for use on the B-1B Lancer... Read More
With an eye on China, the Navy will begin arming its attack submarines with ship-killer missiles for the first time in decades. The weapon of... Read More
In a war, most of us would have far more serious concerns than calculating a car trip, yet GPS jamming poses a significant threat in its own... Read More
Army snipers might soon see a new ghillie suit that they'll actually want to use.For three days in early November, snipers from across the... Read More
The US Navy is looking at a number of ways to increase its presence in the Arctic around Alaska, including deployments of the service's... Read More
WASHINGTON — If the Air Force moves forward on a proposed initiative to buy light attack planes, it won't happen by the end of 2018.The... Read More
One year after Bell's V-280 Valor flew for the first time, the company is preparing to fly the aircraft to speeds of 280 knots, an executive... Read More
The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) has re-prioritized the focus of U.S. strategic military planning toward great power competition with... Read More
It is a sobering thought that official military communication between America and China is still conducted by fax machine. The use of this... Read More
In the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress mandated several reviews of U.S. special operations forces, one of which entails... Read More
The U.S. Army is stepping up efforts to develop soldier-worn exoskeletons designed to relieve some of the burdensome weight that combat... Read More
President Donald Trump issued an order Tuesday creating a new U.S. Space Command within the Air Force, giving an official stamp to plans that... Read More
WASHINGTON — SpaceX on Tuesday scrubbed the Falcon 9 launch of the Air Force's first GPS 3 satellite. The next opportunity is... Read More
The Marines are looking to big data analysis and potentially an IBM Watson-like machine or software to help conduct complex wargaming and... Read More
The deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border began Oct. 31 and was intended to last through Dec. 15. With numbers peaking at 5,900, it's unclear... Read More
Sarah Ford, founder and owner of Ranch Road Boots, attended Harvard Business School — but before that she was a Marine. And, in a lot... Read More
America is a nation of beer drinkers, and that beer is lager. The fact that we call this “domestic” beer, even though it's... Read More
In August 1945, when America initiated the atomic age, the dominant character of land war between great powers transitioned from operational... Read More
The Russian air force will arm its Su-57 stealth fighters with a hypersonic missile, state media reported on Dec. 6, 2018.But with the... Read More
In the 16 years since Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corporation – SpaceX – was founded, the company has transformed... Read More
President Trump shocked the defense establishment on Monday with a tweet describing the current level of U.S. military spending as... Read More
More From Real Clear
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One of the first things one learns as an infantry platoon leader is that he who tries to secure everything with his soldiers on the... Read More
Austal USA apparently will continue its hot streak: The Department of Defense has indicated that in its fiscal 2019 budget cycle, two of... Read More
The two surveillance planes the U.S. Air Force uses to monitor Russian forces under the auspices of a 1992 arms-control treaty are old, in... Read More
The Army picked its two traditional armored vehicle manufacturers, General Dynamics and BAE Systems, to build contending prototypes for its... Read More
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson lays out aggressive acquisition goals and overhauls in how the Navy develops new technologies... Read More
The deputy head of the state-owned firm developing China's first home-grown aircraft carrier has been expelled from the Communist Party and... Read More
The U.S. lacks the defenses needed to protect against a new breed of highly sophisticated hypersonic weapons from China and Russia, according... Read More
The Russian Defense Ministry on Monday said it would "return" more than 10 warplanes to Crimea, according to Russian news agency Interfax.The... Read More
DARPA and BAE Systems are prototyping a new AI-empowered cybersecurity technology to fight new waves of highly sophisticated cyberattacks... Read More
The only senior officer to receive a letter of reprimand so far is Maj. Gen. Marcus Hicks, the head of Special Operations forces in Africa,... Read More
Newport News Shipbuilding offered buyouts to more than 2,500 employees in Hampton Roads on Monday, a little more than 10 percent of its... Read More
WASHINGTON — As the Commerce Department works on plans to take over civilian space traffic management responsibilities, the U.S. Air... Read More
The U.S.-backed and -trained Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) claimed over the weekend to have taken the small town of Hajin on the Syria-Iraq... Read More
When Mark Milley first led a US training mission 14 years ago, he was ordered to school an Afghan unit on Soviet-era weapons at a military... Read More
DARPA and BAE Systems are prototyping a new AI-empowered cybersecurity technology to fight new waves of highly sophisticated cyberattacks specifically engineered to circumvent the best existing defenses.The program, called Cyber Hunting at Scale (CHASE), uses computer automation, advanced algorithms and a new caliber of processing speed to track large volumes of data in real-time, enabling human c Read More
Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday it has delivered the first Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles to the U.S. Air Force for use on the B-1B Lancer -- ahead of schedule.The LRASM will eventually be integrated for the U.S. Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet next year, but the weapon has hit EOC status for the B-1B early, the company said. Read More
